May, Mother's Day and Tulips

I can't believe it's been since April 24th that I've updated my blog. I have things to share, but no time to share it. The month of May is uber busy between work, the garage sale I'm having next weekend, jury duty the week after and then my sinus surgery the week after that, I'm pretty well booked until Memorial Day.

My weekends are feeling like one big blur of activity. I can't say that they have been all work, just busy.

I did switch out the kitchen tree last weekend to a spring themed tree. I'm not altogether happy with it, but that's okay, I can always tweak it if I find cool things to use.

I hope everyone had a great Mother's Day. Mine actually started yesterday when we got up early and headed to Pella, Iowa for the annual Tulip Festival. It has been years since I've gone and neither Fred or Connor has ever been. Unfortunately, the weather didn't want to cooperate and it was pretty nasty when we first arrived, but as we walked around, it got a bit better. We would duck in the stores on the town square to warm up a bit and had plenty of hot coffee to warm us up. Here's a few photos from the day -


Tulip Toren


Schlote Tulip Garden


Beautiful ceramic tile work




More tulips - we were lucky that they all weren't gone, there were still some varieties blooming








Vermeer Windmill


Sunken Garden Park


On our way back home, we decided to stop in Prairie City for this, but more about that on a future blog post -



Have a good week!