Before-After Yard

Yard BEFORE and AFTERS.  

It's shocking how many leaves fell since January.  Never ending tree shedding in this area.  Some tree are starting leaf buds and some STILL haven't shed their old leaves.  It's going to look so nice when things hit the spring green.

BEFORE ...

AFTER: 

Some things in bloom already ...

Most incredible smelling flowers.
It's called a Paperbush.

Carolina Allspice bush pods.

Asheville never fails to be interesting -- a few pictures from my walk yesterday.

Trash day.

Sharing

Enjoy words of inspiration.

My contribution to whimsy.

Lunch was okay-ish yesterday.  We ended up at a bakery I frequent for coffee -- nothing GF on the menu of only sandwiches.  No big deal.  I got an iced americano and called it a day.  The shop was overly warm and we sat at an odd high table that was massively wobbly -- couldn't lean on it so it was awkward.  The conversation was nice, but I was uncomfortable and that dominated my thoughts.  Oh well.  We walked to the bakery so that was nice too -- weather is beautiful this week.

Random picture of my kombucha.  The fizz -- do you see it?  By the time I took the picture it had died down, but the sun was hitting it just right to catch it.  It looked like mini fireworks for a minute.

We ended the day with a trip to White Duck Taco by the French Broad river -- local favorite known for unusual combinations.  Most of their menu is GF.  We can't remember the last time we had a TACO TUESDAY.  It was fun, a little windy and the dogs were professional beggars, but I'm glad we ventured out.  Every time we've gone before, it's so packed, no parking, unbelievable line so we bagged it.  Finally caught it at a good time.

Time to clean the house and get on the road home -- and this post is LONG.  Later gators.