Beautiful Tulips!

Starting off with about 4 inches of new snow by Friday evening, I thought we were out of luck for any sights of spring this weekend. However, after church today we decided to take a drive north and check out the tulip fields. What a sight!! The pics are from the Skagit Valley, about 45 minutes north of our home where they hold an annual tulip festival. We've heard from everyone how beautiful the fields are and, after living here almost three years, I wasn't going to let another spring go by without seeing these vibrant fields myself. Even Ethan was mesmerized by the bold colors. I think we'll have to make this an annual drive. I absolutely loved it! What a great way to close the weekend.

I had to include this last photo. We asked a passerby to take a picture of us. I thought point and click was relatively straight forward. I guess we needed to specify that we would like our faces in the picture. I guess the mud was more interesting ...

Crazy Bird

These pictures really don’t capture this very well, but we’ve had this bird that is in love with our home. It started about 2 ½ weeks ago when I was startled by a banging noise on one of the windows in our living room. A few minutes later I heard the same thing. Upon watching the window it happened again and I noticed it was a bird. It seemed to hit hard enough that I thought it knocked itself out so I went outside to see if it was lying unconscious below the window, but it was not. The next day we went out of town. Jairo returned a few days before me and when I came home he told me of this crazy story about a bird that keeps flying into our window. After that I started noticing this happened daily in the morning and then again in the evening. Finally, a few days ago I called a veterinarian’s office because I thought we had a delusional bird on our hands. According to them, during this time of year some birds (those with smaller brains than the norm) are fooled by their reflection in windows and fly at the reflection as a mating ritual. So, apparently we have a bird trying to mate with our window. The solution …. spray hair spray on the window to dull the reflection. I have yet to get to this, but when I do, I’ll let you know if it works.