Sunday

Short notes on a beautiful morning and a cloudy and rainy afternoon.

Blooms: let's give credit there first. May's essentials.





Brunch: a fairly early affair as the young urban couple has to get going on their return trip home.





I haven't much of anything special to offer them, but I do bake a Greek yogurt cake for the morning meal, just to elevate the whole thing somewhat beyond the everyday stuff you're likely to find at our table.





The young people are off and we return to our routines. It's as if the insert of their visit happened a while back and we are now settled into our old ways.





We make numerous trips to the yard to inspect this or that, to plant the new tomatoes. We work slowly, methodically. With care.





And we're done for now -- at least with the new orchard. I still have my flowers and weeds to tackle, but that's not tough, that's merely a never-ending feature of spring.

And it's good that we are done, because later in the day the rain comes down, and we scramble to put everything away.

The farmette smells remarkably fresh now. More blooms explode. Such a pleasant way to move through weekend days!