The Mories came for a string workshop, and Christian stayed with us for the day!

My young garden : )

One of my birthday roses not yet opened. I so enjoyed anticipating their blooming, and now that they are, it is funny to think of how they were before! And so this quote...

"As though a rose should shut and be a bud again..."

--Keats

Mom's raised beds

pretty and picturesque...

Choosing bikes. An important part of having friends over!

Reading together : )

The guys used neat recycled metal for the "facade"!

The cat...

...in perspective

Ready for installation!

Progress!

The "new" facade.

From the other angle..

Forever tag---a very fun version of freeze tag where everyone is it!

"The sun was down,

And all the west was paved with sullen fire."

--Alexander Smith

Loveliest are thy setting smiles, and fair,

Fairest of all that earth beholds, the hues

That live among the clouds, and flush the air,

Lingering and deepening at the hour of dews.

Then softest gales are breathed, and softest heard

The plaining voice of streams, and pensive note of bird.

--William Cullen Bryant