Spring is Coming!

While most of the winter, our view has looked like this,

 a few days ago, the view out my kitchen window looked like this.  Unseasonably warm weather had melted most of the snow and visitors flocked to our yard.  (Can you see them?)

The apple tree was obviously open for business. 

The apples I hadn't harvested seemed to excite the robins...I'd never seen so many of them before.

Weren't they beautiful?  Look at the bright red chests.  (The photos aren't great...they're taken through glass and plastic insulator.)

The robins obviously knew what they were about picking the apple tree clean, because the next day the yard looked like this again.

Still, I wasn't devastated...my feathered friends let me know spring is definitely right around the corner.

If I need a reminder that the snow is not forever, I'll just look at these photos.  They definitely make me smile.  Any signs of spring in your neck of the woods?

What do you do with the space that used to hold...

...a 20' round above ground pool? You turn it into a fire pit area so you can have wienie roasts and make s'mores with some of your friends! Superman has already made us a few chairs (aren't they cute?) that we supplemented with our camping chairs. A clearance firepit from Lowe's from last year and, viola!, fun in the round! (There were 3 more kids and 6 more adults for our pre-game night frolic.)


So, what do you think? Do you see our vision? Obviously a few more fence panels are needed, but I think it works pretty well.