Another beautiful garden surprise this morning…
my Jack-In-The-Pulpit plant is bigger & better than last year!

It was nice to have a morning without rain… but it was pretty apparent that
the rain had passed through fairly recently. I love how the raindrops cling to the
leaves. The plants are loving the wetter & cooler weather. Me?… not so much.
Although I can’t complain, the bad weather has helped my studio production time!

Another rainy morning as I head back to the studio
Again, no sunrise bike ride today.

But I did get to see a beautiful glimmer from the droplets of rain sitting on some
hosta leaves in the back yard! I’ll take a little natural beauty wherever I can find it!

This afternoon was a beautiful bike ride up to the Chicago Botanic Garden.
Our first “kick-off” Garden ride for Chris & I… hoping to get back into the weekly routine!
The ride was great. The weather was great. And the gardens are already in bloom.
Crazy?!… it’s only April 2nd… we don’t usually get to ride up there for another month!!!

Plus, as if the ride & garden weren’t enough, we also counted 51 white-tailed deer
along the sides of the bike trail going up & back. Some in the fields, or hiding in the woods…
others right there on the trail. That’s somewhere around a deer-and-a-half per mile!!!

After a surprisingly warm Winter, it appears as though Spring has come early
as well. With some surprisingly warm days… and flowers popping up already!
And it’s just the first weeks of March… crazy!!!

With little beauties popping up in my front yard garden! Much better than snow…

The weather this weekend was incredible.
And it has continued this evening with another beautiful night
as the sun was setting on my front porch casting dramatic shadows.