This weekend was all about gardening and that’s the best kind of weekend. My friend Doreen came up from the Cape for our annual plant shopping trip.

We hit two nurseries on Friday, with a terrific lunch in between. And here’s our haul from that day:

We hit two different nurseries on Saturday, after a delicious breakfast at home. And here’s our haul from that day:

In both photos above Doreen’s plants are on the left and mine are on the right. I got several varieties of coleus, a few perennials (coreopsis, a hellebore, and a gaura) plus petunias and geraniums for my window boxes, lavendar and stock and sweet potato vine and other things that looked beautiful or interesting.

It was super hot here on Sunday so the only planting I did was to get the window boxes done. I’ll share a better photo of those in a future post but for today I thought you’d get a kick out of my Project Supervisors. They were quite interested in the process but, without opposable thumbs, they weren’t much help.

That’s my gardening update for late May. And now I’m off to a two day conference of the Massachusetts Library Association, the first one in 3 years. I’m ready to gather with my colleagues and talk libraries and books!

I’ll catch up with you here later this week.

Remember a couple of weeks ago when I showed you the photo of my flowering crabapple tree? And I mentioned that it looked good from the angle I showed you? Here’s the photo in case you forgot:

Well, some of you, <cough>Kym<cough>Bonny<cough> asked what I meant. Today, I’m coming clean. I showed you the view of the tree from my deck. This is the view from the other side:

And this is a side view, showing the gorgeous flowering part on the left and the . . . errrr . . . rather flat side on the right.

We planted this tree over 20 years ago, it was a Mother’s Day gift from the kids and Dale. Obviously we did not choose a great place to put it; it’s overshadowed by a huge black walnut tree on the right and as such it has grown slowly and lopsided.

Live and learn, right? Or . . . laugh it off!

If you’re reading that title you’re probably confused because who would I be sharing prom photos of these days? I’ll tell you who in a moment but I will say this . . . if you’re a long time reader of this blog . . . you might want to sit down before you scroll further. You see, this little baby, just went to the prom.

Gulp.

She has grown into a beautiful, smart, and extremely talented young woman. Here, let me show you.

That dress, right? And the wind blowing her hair? And the back drop. It’s a stunning combination, but mostly I just can’t take my eyes off of her.

With her amazing mom. I couldn’t even begin to tell you the things that Heather does for Ambrynn. She blows me away.

And her dad. I don’t think Dale will mind me telling you that he got pretty verklempt over this photo.

I consider Ambrynn my granddaughter and she calls me Nana but we aren’t actually related by blood. And yet, this smile that’s almost a smirk? So.much.like.me. It’s all in the attitude and we both know it.

Dale and I miss Brant, Heather, and Ambrynn so much and we are so grateful for the wonderful visit we had with them last summer. Thanks for indulging me as I shared these photos.

It was the first weekend in May but it sure didn’t feel like it around here! Nevertheless, we made the most of it.

We had Friday Night Snacks.

And snuggles with Fred and George.

We shopped for plants. (and we is Hannah and I, in this case)

And we had a fabulous lunch.

We bought flowers.

Ate snacks.

And made pizza. (watch for a full update on the Ooni pizza oven later this week)

It was a good weekend for me and I hope you can say the same this Monday.