Lately: Birds, Farmers Market and Summer Fun

Here's a peek into our lives of late:  

I love birds and am so happy to live in a neighborhood that is full of birds. We see cardinals, robins, blue jays, mourning doves, and finches all the time, but Henry and I have also been spotting red-bellied woodpeckers fairly often. Last week, I was so excited to see two small Eastern Screech owls on my run. I had to snap a picture, but this is the best I could do in the pre-dawn hours with a cellphone camera.  

Henry is almost done with school! His last day is this Thursday, so last Friday was his last Friday at St. Paul's. Gene met us for our usual Friday lunch at the Cafe Express at the art museum. 

After lunch, we saw the Picasso: Black and White exhibit and ended up coming home with a new toy and new art shirts for the boys. The toy is called ShapeScapes and it is really fun! The boys love making sculptures with it.  

Check out Henry's "History of Art" shirt (we got one for Will too!). It has yellow smiley faces as they would have been drawn by DaVinci through Warhol. Love it!

Our weekend schedule was fairly empty, but we managed to fill it up with all kinds of activities from car-washing and yard work to seeing a play and visiting the farmers market. Gene was doing some pro bono work Saturday morning, so the boys and I headed to Main Street Theater to see Charlotte's Web. It was fantastic, as all their productions are! 

We have had the most beautiful spring I can remember, but it finally got quite warm yesterday, so we got out our little pool and let the boys splash and play outside while Gene washed both our cars.  

Sunday ended with a visit to our new Sunday afternoon farmers market. We came home with all sorts of goodies, including red snapper for dinner and loads of veggies, but we also got some turkey eggs. Check them out! They are speckled and they are tough to crack. The seller also had duck, quail and chicken eggs.

And we got peaches! These are the first Texas peaches I've seen this year.

The Urban Harvest Farmers Market is located off Richmond, literally five minutes from our house, and has been going strong for years on Saturday mornings, but they just opened up their Sunday afternoon market a few weeks ago. I have to say that I loved it because it was so small and navigable but with everything you need at a market! We treated the boys to a chocolate croissant while Gene and I shared an iced coffee while listening to live music.

We are gearing up for more fun times as summer approaches!