Here is a recent photo. We were taken aback by how much older we looked! It is an entirely different thing to see your own face in a picture rather than in the mirror every day. We still need to order a copy of the picture to add to our family picture display. And get more picture frames for the pictures of other relatives we have yet to display. Like my brother AJ's senior picture. Right now it is just resting on top of another picture. This is fine, except for those times at 4am when the cat decides that she really likes AJ and wants to lick his picture incessantly. Then something startles her, she jumps down from the table, and knocks off three pictures in the process. She makes a great alarm clock. 
This is from when Laura came to visit us from Baltimore. It was in April, so the Skagit County Tulip festival was in full swing. We spent a day just driving around, looking at tulips, stopping to eat a late lunch in La Conner, then browsing through stores. The tulip fields were pretty impressive with rows and rows of color. It looked like a picture of Tuscany. There was also lots of mud, which we considered scooping up and selling as healing tulip mud, but weren't sure about the packaging. We also bought some lovely tulips from the one farm....they lasted for a week before 
the blooms died. Unlike all the other tulips that I've ever had, these actually opened as well. Now that June is here, we would like to go back to the Skagit Valley and get some strawberries, but we never seem to have a free weekend any more. I guess I won't be able to make strawberry jam this year either.
