For, lo, the Winter Is Past

“For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone;  the time of the singing of birds is come...”   Song of Solomon: 2:11&12.

Yes, the winter is past, and what a winter it was.  Weather wise we did not have a lot of snow.  We did not have a white Christmas.  Ken only plowed a few times.  But, it kept snowing here and there until May 6th.  The ole groundhog of Punxsutawney had predicted an early spring.  We should know better than to trust famous ones who make predictions!   Finally, finally, the leaves are almost all out.  Our flowering crab was lovely in the last week, as I have pictured it here.

This is actually a practice blog post for writing with pictures.  I haven’t yet figured out how to move pictures.

Home, sweet home!  We love our home very much.  But in March, we became part of the global coronavirus pandemic and were required to shelter in place, stay at home, to slow the spread of the virus.  During that time we were to only go out for groceries and medicine.  That meant no Bible meetings or visitors for us.  No weekly quilt club for me, either.  Most stores were closed, crippling the economy.  Now, over two months later, the restrictions have slowly lifted.  What a relief it is to feel more normal!  Someday I may write a blog post to put down what it was like to live through the pandemic for posterity.  Right now we are pretty much sick and tired of it and want to move on!

So I will sign off with the lovely crabapple tree, and hopefully get some help from somebody or somewhere on how to insert pictures and move them around!