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Little Things in Spring

Doesn't spring just remind you of how important the little things are?  In central Minnesota the leaves on the shrubs and trees are just popping out and all those little pokes of bright green make me so happy.

Besides leaf buds, I've been noticing swingsets, and juncos, and daffodil stems poking through the ground.  I bought this little daffodil plant at the grocery store for $2.99 yesterday.  That 3 bucks and my pretty little pot is going to make me so happy for a couple of weeks.


I wore my new (to me) cowboy boots yesterday as the weather was just cool enough to get away with it.

Kenneth Cole Reaction, 20 bucks at Ragstock!
I have vowed that my cowboy boots and I will never be apart.  We are "till death do us part, in sickness and in health, for richer, for poorer..."  I love them so much.  George thinks I'm a little crazy to want cowboy boots, but I think he's just jealous of my new love.


And these roses?  I bought them for me.  Eight bucks at a different grocery store.  8 bucks for a dozen!  The hot pink and the shape of them reminds me of my grandma.  She always grew pink roses similar to these.  These hothouse roses don't smell, but they remind me to stop and take the time.  It's the little things in life.

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