Springtime

Spring is kind of a tease in Seattle.  It will get all warm and wonderful for three days, I eagerly pull out the flip flops & the short-sleeved shirts, sunscreen & sunglasses and we start planning beach days and dreaming about summer camping trips.   And then, poof!  Just like that it’s gone.  More rain, more clouds and more 50-degree-days.  And round and round it goes until May, June, July.  But the days are so gloriously long already and they are only getting longer, the cherry blossoms have bloomed (Seattle’s crowning glory in springtime), and we are on our way.

We’ll take what we can get.

The famous cherry blossoms.  These ones at the Washington Park Arboretum near UW.

We’re all smiling – it’s a springtime miracle.  Half my head is gone but we won’t sweat the details.

Jason pretending to be Sleeping Beauty.

The view from the kitchen. I really like how the setting sun hits those trees beyond the pond.  Such light and color in the evening.

And when it’s clear, we can even sneak a peak of the downtown skyline on the left.

Aaaaand, back indoors on a rainy day.

My folks left town on Monday so we’re back to folding our own laundry and acting like grown ups again.  Jason is heading to Portland for a conference next week so I need to get back on my game before he heads out as well.  For now, I’m off to enjoy the sunshine while we’ve got it.