Babies & showers

IT'S SPRING. Yes, I thought I should write that in all caps to wake you all up on a lazy Sunday morning. Trees are sprouting little deep red, baby-pink and coral spools of what will be flowers. After the somnolence of winter the birds are back making their usual racket just outside my window. Finally there is sun again and light and HEAT--not yet the sharp true heat of July and August, but enough to go out in short sleeves again.

I am suuuuch a tropical person. My ideal home would be somewhere in the tropics (or subtropics, which is in many ways better because you have some semblance of seasonal change without the extremes of cold.)

A couple weeks ago friends and I hosted a baby shower-slash-barbeque at the Tai Tam Reservoir country park for a friend who's expecting her first baby this May. It drizzled on and off throughout the day, but the food was good, the company fun, and hey, you can't let some dampness get you down. :-)