The Dragon Garden Rises

There are A LOT of things I could blog about right now, but in the interest of retaining my dear friendships with people who think differently than I do, I will post about something benign, peaceful and boring.

Our garden is planted.

And things seem to be going well.

The lettuce seeds are growing lettuce plants,

the pumpkin seeds are growing pumpkin plants. 

The corn is happy to be planted by the squash and the squash thinks the corn is a good neighbor. 

None of the plants are fighting. No one is angry with each other. Each is different and beautiful and is doing its best to fulfill the measure of its creation.

I am not a great gardener.
I am still learning. 
But I love my garden.

Life is peaceful and all is well here in the Great State of North Carolina.

Tornadoes

A friend of mine (Tara) asked me in the last blog post if we were doing okay in light of the recent and bizarre herd of tornadoes that swept through the entire central part of North Carolina.

Well, we are doing fine. We live in Hillsborough which the tornadoes grazed on either side but thankfully left us alone. During the action I was driving my kids to ice skating lessons and looked up at the sky. "Look at those clouds, girls! They are moving so fast!" I said. Little did I know that to the east and to the west they were moving A LOT faster.

Here is a picture of a Lowes store in a city near us.

Can you imagine being in a Lowes store during a tornado? With hammers, nails, 2x4s, lawnmowers, toilets flying all around? Here is the story of how the managers saved the people inside: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=135498048

I have heard several Carolina natives say these tornadoes were worse than anything they've ever seen before in North Carolina....including hurricanes.

I guess it could have been worse, though. Naomi keeps telling people that North Carolina was hit by a bunch of volcanos.

We are at the beach. There is sun, waves, sand and shells.

And what do my kids want to do?

This is what Harry Potter does to kids.

The Only Bad Thing About Living In North Carolina

Chiggars.

The First Day of Spring

Usually on Saturday mornings I make my kids do jobs.

But today was so wonderful that we skipped jobs and went to Eno River State Park.

We walked across a super shakey foot bridge,

Posed for a romantic photo,

Hung out in Scott's hammock,

And played with moss and sticks.


Much better than doing jobs.

Spring, I'm so glad you're here.