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Spring is here.  Our grass is turning green (along with a proliferation of weeds).  Our twig tree is starting to bloom.  My allergies are kicking in.  Aaah, my favorite season.  Really, despite my allergies, I love spring.  Everything starts to get so much color.  The flowers start to bloom, the wildflowers spring up (no pun intended) and my favorite–the bluebonnets start to line the sides of roads.  Now, if I can get to a field before other people have tromped all over the flowers. 

This is the only tree we have in either our front or back yard.

A closeup of the blooms.  Now, the blooms have fallen away and the leaves are covering the tree.

This is a bush that was planted in a little area near the front porch.  I still need to research what is really is.  If anyone reading this knows, please tell me.  I’d like to be able to keep it.  I was so surprised to see flowers in one of our favorite colors.

Along with everything else that spring brings, we have thunderstorms.  We are at the bottom edge of tornado alley.  I’ve already discussed our escape route in the event of a tornado with the children.  The following pictures are of a hail storm we had last week.  The kids had a great time.

I was very happy that the hail was not bigger–I don’t house my car in the garage and have a sunroof.  Not a good combo.

The girls were throwing the hail into a little puddle that was forming from the rain falling from the roof.  It made them laugh uproariously because the hail was "dancing".

This was the biggest size of the hail.  I didn’t get a picture of the boy as he left the fun when he was told not to wander off the porch and into the hail.

I hope you enjoyed this glimpse into our spring weather.  I love everything about spring.  We’ll be going strawberry picking sometime soon and the bluebonnets will be out too.  As always, I’ll post pictures.