The sun has come for a visit!

Ahhh the beautiful Pacific NW, the Evergreen State... well its also a state where we get lots and lots and lots and lots of rain! But, the sun does come for a visit a few months out of the year and when it does, it makes that very long winter well worth the wait! And a long winter it was. We had a very cold, snowy, rainy winter this year, it felt like it lasted forever. Just a few weeks ago we were still down in the low 40's during the day, and it was May so needless to say, the last few weekends of 70 degree weather has been absolutely amazing and very much appreciated! Us being true Southern Californians, when the sun is out, the bathing suits are on, the sunblock is lathered on and the mini pool and the beers (plus O'Douls) are flowing. Like the song says, "I wanna soak up the sun, I want my forty-five on so I can rock on!"



The sun also wakes up all of our gardens and it truly is a beautiful site to see your yard transform from brown and bare to truly lush and filled with the brightest pinks, purples, yellows, and greens I have ever seen. In April Shilo and I planted our veggie garden in preparation for the spring/summer season and we are starting to see all of our little veggies sprout through. This year we have sugar snap peas, lettuce, tomatoes, basil, chives, cucumber, rosemary and Shilo's favorite, Sunflowers. In addition to that we are able to benefit from what has already been here for years past: strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, mint, pears, Plums and the best for last, cherries! We are looking forward to watching our garden continue to grow and as the weeks pass, the afternoons when we are growing hungry for a little sweet snack we can simply pick something fresh from our very own backyard!

Plum Tree



Sugar Snap Peas


Strawberries


Shilo's Sunflowers