Great Expectations

Back to Maine today to meet with the contractors to discuss landscaping plans as well as a purported imminent visit by an electrician (be still, my heart!)

We also put together a bed at Periwinkle Cottage, so another inch forward there -- we now have a dresser, two bedside tables and a bed (with no mattress yet).  My head is positively spinning!

This brittle, dry old hydrangea blossom next to the porch looked like it was straining to reach the warmth of the sun, and dreaming of a few months from now when it will have fresh, pretty flowers to flaunt.

On a separate note, today would have been my beloved father's 96th birthday.  He was very clever to decide to be born on St. Patrick's Day with a name like Ned Murphy!