Happy Earth Day!

In celebration of Earth Day, I took my first walk of the Spring in the newly thawed Grant Forest Preserve today.  It was pretty barren due to the crummy weather we've had lately, but there are some buds coming out.  Pretty soon it will look like this:

Budget Gardening

It's finally starting to be consistently warmer here, and soon I'll feel comfortable enough to start decking out my patio with flowers and container veggies. We'll see how successful I am with the veggies...

I was thrilled to find these garden tools at Target, in their dollar section no less! (They also come in purple and pink.) Somehow, they make me feel like I could actually accomplish my gardening goals.

They also have vegetable and wildflower seed packets, garden edging, and even tiny gnomes!

And yes, I did consider getting the gnomes.....

Happy Easter!

Hope everyone is enjoying their holiday weekend!  

(The above graphic is from The Vintage Workshop.  It's a terrific source for all types of vintage images. You can visit their site here.)

Snow Day

The forecast was for snow this weekend, but I guess I didn't realize quite *how much* snow we would get....or that it would actually stick.  After all, it is Spring, right?

This is the view from my patio window two hours ago, and it's still coming down...  

I'm really looking forward to brushing off my Jeep to go to work this evening.  :)  Hope everyone else is enjoying better weather!