Summer Time and Artichokes

It's summertime at last!!! I can tell from the hot sun on my skin, the smell of grass, leaves, and flowers on the breeze, the rolling green hills in front of our home and the perfect shade of blue in the sky. I cooked my first artichoke for dinner tonight and we spent the rest of our evening walking around the park. Summer makes me so happy!!!!























This is the view from our front door. It's so beautiful.





After our walk it was bedtime for one very tired girl. Nothin like running barefoot through the grass, collecting pinecones and leaves, and then coming home, putting on jammies, and reading books on the couch next to daddy with the last rays of sun warming up the room. It's been a wonderful day.