A pop of color!

Each year, usually around mid March, our farm starts to show the first colors of spring. This winter has been on the warmer side, with spikes into the teens but mostly gross at 33 and rain, sleet on an exciting day. Earlier this week was my husband and my anniversary and there was a box of fake tulips that showed up that day. Confirming that they were from my mother, I didn’t know what to do with them so I took them over to the cabin for the kids to use at school for some task or another.

Today I was walking over to the cabin and peeked out of the corner of my eye where I always check to see if the yellow aconite have sprouted up along with the little white snowbells. What did my wandering eye behold? Wild aconite peeking up all around the old ash tree. What a wonderful sight, although about a month early, the color was exactly what my eyes needed.

I was inspired by the color so I decided to use the tulips for counting today. That miserably failed so I let Alice choose how she wanted to play with them and this is what she chose to do.