Oh, Spring!

Is any season more fun than Spring?
First of all, there's no snow.
Instead, the whole world is having babies.

 See?

 Grape Babies!

 They are a little hard to spot in the tangle of the grape vines,

but they are there, and growing daily.

 And so begins our summer-long vigil of watching the

ancient tangled grape vines at That Old House:

So that in the Fall, we can make this:

 In bigger jars.  Live and learn.

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Also producing offspring -- finally! in this cold and wet Spring -- are the Iris plants:

 One of the apricot-colored iris bloomed, but it was almost immediately felled by a heavy storm

and is no longer picture-worthy.  It's up to the more common purple cousins to pose for the camera.

Iris are not shy about their beauty; they flaunt it.  Good for them.

Some of our iris are gone for good, I'm afraid, victims of the vicious winter of 2010-11.

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And a totally random shot for today, of our upstairs hallway.

As I write this post on Friday morning, my two daughters are still sleeping

behind a couple of those doors.

 See that teeny tiny step partway down the hall?

That's where the old house (1832) meets up with the new house (1880s).

With two staircases leading off this hallway, and given my worry-wart personality,

we keep a nightlight burning there all the time to prevent (we hope) trippings and tumblings.

So when you come to visit and have to get up in the middle of the night

to wander down the hall to the necessary room, you have been warned.

Why do I have a picture of our upstairs hallway on the blog today?

Probably because it is the only place not cluttered  or in disarray right now at That Old House!

Happy Friday; I hope your weekend is just what you want it to be.  -- Cass

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