Our leaves are all open & wonderful — even though they make breathing difficult, it’s worth it. 🙂 The sun has been out & warm, we had some rain & it warmed back up again! I have to admit when it started to rain I was holding my breath & hoping, hoping, hoping the springy/summery weather would come back & it did. 🙂

I was able to get some flowers for my deck & start making my ‘corner of the world’ to enjoy sitting outside. I’m so happy. It is always amazing to me how therapeutic it is to dig & play in the dirt. I know you can’t see the sun hitting this corner – but it is where the sun hits first each day. It’s getting earlier, about 1:30-2 that the corner my chair is in has sun. I just took these pictures & it’s 10pm – so the sun is hitting the tree tops all around, but not on my deck anymore.

The flowers look so wimpy in their pots right now, but I look forward to them filling out, the colors really being visible & not seeing the dirt.

Last year a friend gave me one of these hanging bags with blue lobelia in it. It was beautiful, thick & bushy. When she gave it to me you couldn’t see the bag it was hanging in. This is just to the left of my door, we all got very used to walking out & around (we’d walk out & step to the left to go right) to go down the ramp. So, true to ‘old habits die hard’ this year since putting my screen door on (our signal that summer is here) we are all walking out & around and moving our head funny to the left when we walked out to get around the bushy plant that isn’t there! So, I decided to put Gypsophilia in it. I love Gypsophilia. I discovered it a few years back & haven’t been able to find any since. It has the sweetest, tiniest little flowers – I would have chosen white but they only had light purple. I decided purple is good. 🙂 It sure looks funny right now, I hope I didn’t hurt it too much trying to get the plants through the little holes…..soon (I hope) our step out to the left to go right &/or the funny ‘jerk your head to the left’ move will be for a reason again :).

I’m so thankful our Heavenly Father created things of beauty – big, enormous mountains & teeny tiny flowers – for us to enjoy. I love living in Alaska!