Happy first week of April! 

This year is moving right along, before you know it, half the year will have passed. We are enjoying beautiful spring days here... sprinkled with lots of rain, and mixes of sunshine, and snow/slush/hail, and then beautiful clouds in the skies.  This is spring in North Idaho! 

Crocus springing up in my garden!

Blue skies have blessed us with their presence in the last few days, as the sun races across the sky, gaining 2 minutes of daylight daily. How wonderful it is to have daylight now until 5 p.m. !  When winter solstice arrives, our sun doesn't rise until 7:30 a.m., and it sets around 3:30 p.m.  Those are some very short days! But... once we cross that line, the sun really does seem to gather speed as daylight increases each day. 

This is my view whenever I need to run a quick errand into our little town... pure delight always, but especially with those blue skies!

As the days of January's winter drag on, the landscape remains encapsulated in a fog that grasps the world in its wispy embrace. Our area has a weather system that has been with us since January 10th, when the fog arrived.  This is not uncommon for our area, as we live between mountain ranges, and oftentimes weather systems get "trapped" between the ranges, and stay for days.  Soon, they tell us another weather system will move in, but for now, the clouds are low-hanging, and fog dominates the landscape.