Making time to take lots of pictures, but no time to write about them

Who needs winter anyway?

Typically, one of my favorite things about living in Kansas is we get to experience 4 completely different seasons. Well ... this year, winter has hardly shown up. We had 2 days of very light snow, that quickly melted. The weather has been uncharacteristically warm, and sunny, and pleasant. By this time of year, I'm normally wearing my pajamas inside out, sleeping with a spoon under my pillow and doing all kind of praying for snow days. Not this year! If our district doesn't use any snow days, the students' last day is May 24th! Can you believe it? That would mean that my summer would actually start before Memorial Day. I don't remember the last time that happened!

Minnie and I've been enjoying many, many trips to the dog park this winter. Today, I rushed home from work so we could get a nice walk in at the park before dark. It was a beautiful day! See for yourself:

65 degrees. At 6:00pm. On February 22nd. I approve.

The sun makes everything look pretty out there.

Can you see the dogs in this one?

She's one happy girl!

A striped sunset through the trees.

I need your help. No more wishing we'd get some snow this winter. Keep crossing your fingers for more days exactly like today!

Seen on our walking route

{Yes, that's a mattress & box spring under the highway.}

{Tree completely covered by vine plant. It's GORGEOUS in person!}

{She stopped half way through our walk to rest a bit. Cars driving by laughed at us!}

{Minnie's new "friend" that we ran into on the way home. This poor turtle was awfully far from any sort of nature. I wonder how long it took him to get on the walking trail from his home.}

Who wants to join us on our next walk?

New York - Buildings

Now that I finally have time to sit down and write a post about our trip to NYC, I'm having a difficult time figuring out what to write. I took close to 500 pictures between Thursday night and Sunday morning. We window shopped all over, ate a TON and enjoyed our time with family.

When I came home, everyone asked the typical questions: "Did you go to Times Square?" "Did you see the Statue of Liberty?" "Did you go to any Broadway shows?" "Did you buy anything fun?" "Did you see Ground Zero?" My answer was no to every single one of those questions, but we DID do a lot in a very short time in the city. We were there for cousin Katherine's wedding to Bruce ... not a vacation to explore the big city! When you subtract our traveling time, we were really only in the city for about 56 hours. For such a short time, I think we got a lot accomplished!

I've decided to break the trip down into a few posts, based on topics. Most will be full of pictures ... you can head over to Molly & Erik's blog to read their recap of the trip in more detail.