Hi, everyone!
Between Palm Sunday and Easter, I started to see more of my flower friends outdoors! The tulip shoots poked out, so I helped put coffee grounds around them. I hope the squirrels and rabbits don’t develop a taste for coffee flavored tulip shoots! The new lilac Grandma had planted last year had green buds! The daffodils that something tried to eat were blooming and the shoots of all my daffodil friends in the meadow planting were coming up!
James and Thomas went to rock climbing camp during Holy Week school break. They wanted to spend Good Friday night at the bay! Grandma and I had dinner ready when they arrived with Uncle Steven and Aunt Kara. After dinner, there was enough daylight left for a Nerf battle. Then they put on their pajamas and had electronics time before bed.
Saturday morning, Grandma and Grandpa and I left the bay early, because Grandma had already invited Uncle Steven’s family to have a pizza dinner with us in town! In the afternoon, I went outside to check on the position of the sun at 3:40 p.m. Next year at that time, the sun will be in total eclipse. I wanted to make sure we would be able to see it from our yard! When Thomas arrived for dinner, he brought his drone. I watched it fly all over the living room! Then we had pizza with gummy bears and AWACS cheesecake for dessert. Everybody was happy with that menu!
On Easter, Grandma and Grandpa and I had dinner with Tilly and Moose-san and Goldstone and Joe-san and Nancy-san. I was happy to see my friends! We served the apple pie for dessert. Then we stayed out of the way of the clean-up by working on the jigsaw puzzle. Grandma and Nancy-san work on jigsaw puzzles every Thursday afternoon.
The day after Easter, more of my daffodil friends were blooming. There were even more flowers by Wednesday!
Friday felt like a summer day! The temperature almost reached 80 degrees! Grandma said it was time to go back to Highland Park to look for flowers outside! Some of the early cherries and white magnolias were in full bloom, and lots of the magnolias and cherry trees had flower buds.
In the Poets Garden, my helleborus friends looked a lot happier! Some of them were even facing right into the sun! The lilacs had green buds. I looked in the burrows for my groundhog friends, but I didn’t see a single one!
The gardeners were busy planting the pansy bed. Grandma thought the design looked a little bit like the Air Force logo, but the gardeners said they thought they were planting a fairy wand design. We walked through the cherry meadow on our way back to the car, but most of my cherry friends there weren’t blooming yet. The very early azalea was in bloom partway up the hill!
When I got home, I checked for leaves on our apple trees! The red delicious tree was ahead, as always! We went back to the bay after dinner and stopped to see sunset from the Point. We stopped again to see afterglow from the high point on Shaker Tract Road. There was a pretty sunrise on Saturday, too! It was cooler at the bay, because Lake Ontario is still cold.
When we got back to town on Saturday, there were more green leaves and blossoms in our yard! I could see the flower buds on the new lilac! Grandma wasn’t sure that a new plant would bloom the first season after planting. This lilac is my favorite kind — a Sensation — so I’m really eager to see the blossoms!
Grandma heard from a friend that the continued warm weather on Saturday had really made the blossoms pop out at Highland Park! After church on Sunday, we went back! I made so many new flower friends! The redbuds were in bloom, and so were the pink magnolias. It was such a sunny, summery day that the plein air painters were out in the magnolia grove!
The cherry trees on Reservoir Avenue were blooming! Grandma got a picture of me with the tunnel tree trunk. There were lots and lots of people enjoying the park, but I wasn’t photo bombing anybody!
The cherry meadow had the biggest changes from Friday to Sunday. All the trees were in full bloom! I even found the very first blooming lilac!
When I got home, I checked on my tulip friends. Almost all of them made it to full bloom without being nibbled! Most of the trees had a green day between Saturday and Sunday!
Sunday night a cold front came through! Our summer-like weather is gone! We had rain yesterday and today there was even a little snow! But the green is here to stay!
Love,
Lion-san