I'm not Sure the Beach Should Smell like a Port 'o Potty

I won't go into detail about the smell and I definitely won't share Mike's possible logical explanation (the theory would gross you out a bit), but it did smell strangely like sewage and chemicals at this off the road drive-up beach access.

How I long for every day to be a Bayfield Friday, but those silly gas prices and this whole "having to work to financially survive thing" really breaks into those excursions. If you were in and around our great state of Michigan this weekend and didn't take full advantage of the warm temps and mostly sunny days, then maybe you really do have a strong affection for snow and cold. As for me and my crew, we headed to Bayfield on Friday. Temps. around 60 and sun, sun, sun, sun made a great, true spring day. We stopped at Mike's favorite coffee shop, Big Water, and I had a peach blossom white tea and split a Chocolate Lavender scone with Cindy. Awesome and Fabulous at the same time. A few new books from the bookstore, a new Lole hat, a pocket full of jelly bellys, and a 1/2 hour at the playground is a great day, especially after you leave the mystery smell beach.

Wooly Worms and Want-a-bees

Looky, looky, I'm out of hibernation like the wooly worms.

Here are pics from my first true family walk since returning to the world of employment. To say I've been busy would be correct. To say I work too much, also correct. To say I really miss photographing and blogging would be the truest statement yet.

Woolly worms are out and cattail seeds are striving to separate themselves from their tethers.

Please enjoy these first images of the 2010/2011 U.P. winter that I've captured, although rather late in the game and hopefully I'll have spring pics next week or so.

Here's my inspirational motto for the week: "Keep crawling woolly worm!"

Yesterday we Bought a Beachball, Today we Built a Snowman

What a beautiful sight to see when I woke up this morning. Snow covered trees, snow covered grass, snow covering everything. What a sweet winter day. Whoops, I mean spring day.

During this past winter, the snow was too deep for Bits to walk through and too cold to play outside for long. The positive to getting snow in May, you can kick through it with ease, and build multiple snowmen until you get it right. Bits got to accessorize the snowman; it was warm enough where he didn't need his gloves on.

I think all the flowers that had started to bloom were clearing there floral throats in protest, "Umm-hmm, excuse me, Mr. Cold front? You seem to have gotten a little snow on us."

The snow was gone as quickly as it had come, but Bits and I sure had fun, on this UP spring snowy day.