American Painted Lady

"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly, "one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower." ~ Hans Christian Anderson

Beautiful and graceful, varied and enchanting, small but approachable, butterflies lead you to the sunny side of life. And everyone deserves a little sunshine. ~ Jeffrey Glassberg

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We have Tomatoes!

~What I planted this spring~

Heinz ~ A reliable, early-maturing standard processing tomato. Very firm and flavorful 3-4 ounce fruits on compact, upright, determinate plants.

San Marzano Gigante ~ Large, open, indeterminate plants produce enormous, meaty fruit.

Viva Italia ~ beautiful Italian sauce tomato.

Isis Candy ~ Indeterminate cherry

Chocolate Cherry ~ my favorite of the cherry varieties!

What types did y'all plant this spring?

Happy Boy

Hummingbird!!!

Blue Iris

Look what greeted me this morning out by our pond.

So beautiful, so perfect, so blue.

I LOVE THEM!!

Have a great weekend friends.

xoxo

Bloomin' Cauliflower

First Monarch of Spring!

Happy Birthday Girlz!

It's great being two!

Yoko

Laverne

Vera

Dim Sum Sunday ~ Peeps

It's Rainbow Cupcakes and Peeps for this week's DSS.

They're such cute little suckers!

For more Peep fun head over to The Karmic Kitchen.

Wordless Wednesday ~ Enjoying the Warm Weather

Wordless Wednesday ~ This and That

Dim Sum Sunday ~ Kids Choice

Today we turned Elizabeth loose in the kitchen, with an added twist of whatever she cooked, Shamu had to cook too. Great twist Shamy!

Elizabeth's pick was Spaghetti with Sicilian Meatballs.

She started out by chopping up some basil for the sauce.

Adding a little olive oil.

Couple cans of diced tomatoes, and the sauce was ready to simmer on the stove for about an hour.

On to the meatballs...

Grinding up some pepper to add to the milk, egg, breadcrumbs, and sweet sausage.

Mix, mix, mix.


She had a blast rolling out the meatballs!
Which really surprised me, I thought she'd ask either John or me to do this part, but she was in there with both hands.

Way to go Elizabeth!

You made us a fabulous dinner of spaghetti and meatballs.

Head on over to The Karmic Kitchen for more kid fun.

As an added bonus ~ Shamy's beautiful pictures.