- Use your words

I remember the first time I heard a Kindergarten teacher tell an out-of-control child to "use your words."

My reaction was something along the lines of "well of course, what a great idea."

Which still holds true today, as I managed to pull off an 11th hour finish to the March patches ...

Patches 87-91

including a green calendar (for spring or St. Pat's, take your pick)  ...

Patch #91

I looked back on the rest of the month and realized the blank patches meant nothing to me. So I scrolled back to the original posts and thought, "You know, I could use some words."

And really, it didn't take all that long to do. Soon the completed month was flying in the breezeway ...

Rather than show you all the additions here, I'm going to re-visit the original posts and add updated images. With thanks to Dee Mallon for this post about back-filling journals that inspired my turnaround today.

For now, I'll leave you with these brave cactus flowers (twice the diameter of the arms that support them) ...

and the hackberry that we had given up for lost only a week ago ...

Hope springs eternal ... and yes, I'm going back to daily patches and posts.