April Birthdays

 Everybody has a birthday. When is yours? Mine is in April and so is my Daddy's!  One of my nephews has one in April and the baby shower that I just went to recently? That baby girl was just born April 20th!  They have named her Esme Reese, which is such a beautiful name.  Happy Birthday to the newest April baby!

Richard always gets the amarylis to bloom almost exactly on my birthday, we have had several of these for many years and they are spectacular.  Lucky for me, they are usually right on the day!

 This is my Dad from just a few years ago, and he planted these sunflowers in his vegetable garden, just to see how they would do, and I thought they looked pretty darn good!  I found these sunflower stickers and they looked so much like his, that I had to make this display around his photo and this is on my refrigerator door. Nice smile to see every day!

 These were my birthday cards from last April, but I have this photo on here for you so you can see the nice photo that I took at Beachy Head.in Eastbourne, England.  That is my husband, our son, and my in-laws. I think they look like models! Notice the Great Ormond Street coaster?  That is the  children's hospital in London where Richard spent so much time when he was a youngster.  The photo on the edge is of our handsome son when he was 16.   I made those crocheted eggs for Easter decoration. (Just have to have bits of color here and there!)

 Richard has his 21st birthday mug on the mantel and there in the middle is the 25th wedding anniversary clock from Henry and Sarah.  See, I did get it over here without breaking it! Thank you!

Can you recognize my Daddy in the photo above?  He was only 18 years old and was in his army uniform, just before he was sent to Germany.  One of the few photos I have him without a smile. Hey, he didn't know me yet!

 Happy Birthday,  Sam  and on Easter Sunday!  These are my sister's orchids.  She is so wonderfully talented at all she does,  I hope to be like her one day! Oh, and she is as gifted at photography as Richard.  (But hey, I took this shot!)

 The bluebird and the meadowlark photos were taken at my Dad's on Saturday.  The meadowlark has such a beautiful song and that bluebird! People put out boxes for bluebirds (that box next to the meadowlark is where the bluebirds have built a nest) and they need to be on the edge of a field.  We don't see any bluebirds where we live, it is too wooded.  Same thing for the meadowlark, duh...it likes meadows!

The Canadian geese with the precious babies were taken at Stone Mountain Lake.  You have seen the lake from the top of the mountain. Now you have seen the mountain from the lake!  Scriptor Senex, this should look like the postcard that you have on your display board!

Stone Mountain was my birthday present to myself last year and this year too.  (A visit there, I mean, I don't collect mountains!)  I think it is a perfect place to ring in another year on Earth!

And that reminds me, even if it isn't your birthday...it is Earth Day today, so Happy Earth Day!  That is something we should all celebrate. (Unless you are an alien reading this, and if you are, I hope you are a nice, intelligent one and maybe will guide us to a better appreciation of all that we have.)  One lives in hope.

One of my presents to my Dad was a couple of CD's.  My Dad is a big fan of Johnny Cash. He has always reminded me of my Dad.  Johnny Cash was a great singer and songwriter.   Johnny Cash didn't write this song, it is by one of his good friends, Kris Kristofferson.   (Thanks to Andi for the comment below!)