Gets me every time...

Rob's Tree

Last year for Rob's birthday I got him a Grow Your Own Giant Sequoia in a can. He had commented on how cool it would be to try it every time he saw it online, so I thought it would be a good gift. He was pleased when he opened it and set forth to growing his own Giant Sequoia pretty much immediately. 10 months later...it is 3 inches tall. Part of me is petrified of the idea of trying to grow this in our yard and it taking over the entire neighborhood--the other part of me realizes that we will be long gone before it gets big enough to cause problems. What do you think? Would you want a Giant Sequoia in your backyard?

In which Sarah discovers the macro setting on her camera...

What a beautiful spring we've been having! Everything is blooming about a month early. So I took some pictures around the yard of our blossoms. I was getting frustrated with the blurriness and as I was trying to figure out how to adjust the aperture setting, I read online that I should just use the macro setting (on a point and shoot)...so after some hunting around and frustrated grumblings...I discovered how to set it to "macro" for close up shots on all of the different settings--I felt like such a dummy--it was super easy. After that, the blurriness was due to the breeze, not the camera. :) You can find all of today's photos here.