Earth Day

It is, in Wisconsin, the most beautiful of all April days: plenty of sunshine, warm enough to keep to a light sweater (and not even that if you're working), crisp, green and wonderful.

I do not pause. Once I'm up, I stay up, crazily moving through the day until now -- suppertime -- when I feel I can finally give it a rest.

And so it's a photo day on Ocean! Few words. No time for words. No need for words! It's Earth Day, and I celebrate it by being outside all day long. Though not for breakfast. Too cool in the early morning hours. We eat in the sun room.






Henny! Leave my flowers alone! Go scratch somewhere else! Oh, those cheepers!






Morning: I'm with my daughter and granddaughter at the downtown farmers market. The vendors line the blocks around the Capitol. It takes more than half an hour to make your way around.






When we're done, Snowdrop leaves her stroller for a romp on the Capitol grasses. Today, she is enthralled by the large trees.






Hide and seek!






I see that she would very much like to climb a tree. That wont work here, but at the farmette, low limbed trees abound!






She is handed a free construction hat at a store on the Square. Snowdrop loves hats.






And then I leave her to prodeed with her family weekend, while I turn my attention to my flower beds. There is a lot to do! (The cheepers are like loyal pups -- they follow me to whatever corner of the yard I'm in.)





I work   ALL   DAY   LONG. Digging. Weeding. Planting. Pruning.

Phew!

Pause to admire blooms on trees: they're everywhere now! Here's one of our young peach trees.






Here's a cherry -- so delicately fragrant!






(The cheepers follow.)






And the daffodils continue to dance and swing and sway...





I tell you, a gorgeous day. My muscles ache, my nails hands are caked in mud. A perfect day.