5/6/08 Remember these?

Remember this sign of spring from March 21, 2008?

It only took a month and a half, but this is what that same garden looks like today:

5/6/08 More signs of spring/summer

Did I mention that the peepers are back? I hear them at night when I walk past the creek by the Education Center. Ever since I came back from spring break, they've been peeping.

And here's a batch of Johnny Jump-Ups. Well, that's what I'm used to calling them. I should ask around and find out their name around here.

But no matter where you're from, I think these spring "flowers" are pretty universal.

5/6/08 Border Patrol

I came out of WalMart tonight and saw this truck parked next to my car. Now it's going to take you longer to read what I was thinking than it actually took for me to think it. It only took less than a second, but this is the order of my thoughts: "Border Patrol?! Wow. They're far from home (thinking of the Texas Border Patrol that patrols the Texas/Mexico border). Oh wait! There's another border! This must be the Maine/Canada Border Patrol." I figured it out right away, but I cracked up that my initial thought was still a Texas reaction. The Texas border is 7 hours (shortest trip) from Richardson where I lived. The Canadian border is only 2 hours away from Farmington. And yet when I think border, I think of the Texas/Mexican border.

LOL! The first time I wrote this I actually wrote, "This must be the Texas/Canada Border Patrol." That's gotta be some kind of Freudian slip. Fortunately, Lindsay caught it. So I fixed it on 5/11/08, but I wanted to hold on to the original notion, too. :-)