Springtime at my mother’s

My brother and his kids are visiting this week so we were all hanging out at my mother’s yesterday afternoon. The weather was beautiful and the kids went right to playing in the wooded area and the brook, which sparkled and was just lovely.  It’s a very pretty yard and it was nice to see what was coming up there that was different than at my house.

In little wooded area a carpet of moss was bright green. Up close it looks like a little secret world. In fact, the whole yard seems like it is home to fairies!

These little yellow flowers were new to me, mom says they are dogtooth violets:

But best of all…..ferns just beginning to unfurl:

(I’m so in love with the above picture that I think I will have an enlarged print made and matte it and frame it and hang it in my bedroom!)

We also had fun in and around the dollhouse, which was built by my grandfather for my mother and her sisters when they were little.  My brothers and I played in it when it was at our house, and now my the grandchildren play in it.

Would you believe that in the evening we had a big thunder and lightning storm that turned into a hailstorm? Huge pellets of hail loudly battering the house! Just went outside and it looks like the flowers and plants are fine. By the way, the beautiful tulips we had this year around the mailbox were all eaten by deer. BOOOOOOOO!