Springtime

It's green again! Though our local weather says we still need 13 inches of rain before we are out of drought, we have gotten a ton of rain already this winter/spring. The whole ranch is green and gorgeous. Our drive down to the beach was beautiful with some of the most amazing, colorful wildflowers I've ever seen. The boys and I went on our annual flower hunt on Thursday afternoon. They bring a bucket and pick flowers and I take pictures of them sitting in the bluebonnets. Not all of the flowers have bloomed yet on the ranch, so we'll probably have to do it again in a week or two. Michael and I are jonesing to get up to the Stonewall house to see the flowers, but I don't know if we'll make it since every weekend through the June seems to booked up.
On Friday morning we had not one, but two huge hot air balloons come right over our house. They were so close, we even got to chat with them. They come down the river and then turn at our house to head toward an adjacent ranch to land. The humans were all thrilled but the dogs were totally overwhelmed and scared of these giant monsters. It came directly over our back patio, but I like this picture of it when it was still over the river because you can see how green everything is.
Cousin Hank's gardens are growing lush and abundant. We started this Friday getting a weekly box of his produce as well as some big golden yolked eggs. If you are local, you should contact him and order a box! Here's a picture of my haul this week.
We are trying to spend as much time outside as we can in our very short span of beautiful weather.