A Time To Keep

Yesterday, just like last year on this beloved feast of St George, the little boys busied themselves drawing pictures on one of their favorite theme; knights and dragons! 

Felix

Matthias

Dominique

Laurence

Lydia and Laurence made some shortbread dragon cookies with the cookie cutter Sara gave us for Christmas.

What fun it was to decorate them!

But also to eat them at teatime with some Harrods English tea.

Since it was also Shakespeare’s birthday we watched part two of In Search of Shakespeare a very well done PBS documentary.  Was Shakespeare Catholic?  Michael Wood gives good evidence that he was. 

You might have notice Laurence’s dirty fingernails as he is sipping his tea.  Well, the weather was so gorgeous, it just beckoned us to go outside and explore the wonders of springtime.

Look who was out in the pasture basking itself in the sun along with the cows and goats. 

Just then Dominique spotted a hawk in the sky.  As Laurence turned to see, I snapped this picture.   It almost looks like he is trying to imitate the turtle.

We followed the box turtle into the woods where Dominique had a chance to see it face to face.

How amazing that sweet Mother Dove stood still to let me take this closeup picture.  I was less than a foot away! 

A look inside one of our bluebird birdhouse revealed these roundish little ones. 

Matthias found these abandoned wren’s eggs near where the chicken lay their eggs.  I guess the chicken scared Mother Wren away. 

Poor wrens, they seem to have a habit of choosing precarious places to nest.  Last year they build a nest in Sebastien’s shorts hanging on the clothesline.  I tried not to disturb the little mother, but one weekend we kept our son’s dog and sadly he had other ideas.  I’m sorry to say that he more than unsettled the little nest. 

The first sunflowers in the sunflower maze are sprouting.  

Of course spring and kids simply go together like bread and butter.  Here are Matthias and Mattimeo.