"The March wind roars Like a lion in the sky, And makes us shiver As he passes by. When winds are soft, And the days are warm and clear, Just like a gentle lamb, Then spring is here." - Author Unknown

March 1 ~ granddaughter Ella Rose kicking those little legs, making her toys shake, rattle, and roll

March 3 ~ More rain. Still cold.

March 3 ~ North wind. March living up to its reputation

March 4 ~ Warmth on a cold cold night

March 6 ~ Change is good, especially when it's a diaper

March 6 ~ The view from the changing table

March 6 ~ Restaurant Row with an awesome sunset playing in the background on a Wednesday evening

March 6 ~ Two of our cousins from Texas who were driving across Tennessee dropped in to visit us at church after Wednesday night Bible class ~ a rare occasion these days, so a group shot was a must. From left: Neil, me, Knox, our Texas cousins Wayne and Merritt Seely there in the middle, Jane, Don, and Ken. What a treat to get to visit even for a short time! 

March 7 ~ We're always bummed when this happens. Our fave Thai food restaurant closes a couple of times a year so they can visit family in Thailand. It's been said about Ocha, and rightly so, that it's the only business that can close for two months at a time, reopen, and pick up right where it left off. 

March 10 ~ Heads bowed down in submission to the four nights straight of below freezing temps ~ March weather is crazy

March 11 ~ It's that time of year ~ Neil, Kerry, and Knox in the backyard after school, pitching a baseball. Knox is signed up for coaches pitch again this year.

March 12 ~ Tiny pink roses left over from my birthday bouquet, drying nicely and still colorful

March 14 ~ Pi is the number you get if you divide the circumference of any circle by its diameter. It's the same for all circles. Pi is what mathematicians call an "infinite decimal" — after the decimal point, the digits go on forever and ever. When starting off in math, students are introduced to pi as a value of 3.14 or 3.14159. (Don't say I never taught ya nothin')
March 14 (or 3.14) is also a handy excuse to eat pie ~ not that we need an excuse.

March 15 ~ Knox went fishin' with his grandpa and pulled this one in, plus several others. Catch and release

March 15 ~ The T shirt says it all ~ Kindergarten will be here before you can blink.

March 16 ~ Lunch at Steak n Shake with grand peeps Shelby and Elijah ~ always fun ~ they had spent the night with us, and we watched a scary movie (The Ring)

March 16 ~ Look who can roll over now

March 17 ~ Shelby pitching some grounders to Knox out in the back yard on a Sunday afternoon

So far, all the grands have played baseball ~ it'll be interesting to see if Ella will want to play

March 17 ~ Look who tasted carrots for the first time (and liked them)

March 20 ~ Elijah and Knox have rediscovered the joy of jumping  and flipping on the trampoline.

It's a spectator sport for some (most) of us

"The air is like a butterfly
With frail blue wings.
The happy earth looks at the sky
And sings." ~Joyce Kilmer, Spring


March 23 ~ Neil, Holly, Elijah, Shelby, and Knox did a little fishing at Cane Creek Park ~
'little' being the key word here
picture by Shelby

Holly and Shelby casting their lines ~ the fishies weren't taking the bait today
picture by Shelby

March 23 ~ Holly and Ella

March 23 ~ Shelby ~ She's graduating in May ~ Holy Cow!

March 23 ~ Enjoying this beautiful but chilly day watching the boys jump on the trampoline ~
From left: Neil, Kelly, Shelby, Ella, and Holly
That's Knox suspended in mid-air to the right

March 23 ~ Elijah has been teaching Knox flipping techniques

Elijah is a good instructor

And Knox is a fast learner

Shelby and Ella
picture by Kelly

He's getting pretty good at the flipping thing

March 30 ~ Neil replaced some topsoil in the front yard in hopes of getting something to grow there besides crab grass ~ The struggle is real ~ We may have to resort to artificial turf
Not really but it's a thought

March 30 ~ Everything is blooming ~ love the yellow pop of color ~ wish we had more forsythia in the yard

March 30 ~ Redbud

March 30 ~ Neil planted several calla lilies in the back yard ~ there's a freeze warning here for Sunday ~ hope all these beautiful blooms survive

March 30 ~ Crab Apple

March 30 ~ our red maple is showing signs of life

March 31 ~ Here's the church and here's the steeple. Open the door and there's all the people.

March 31 ~ Sunday lunch bunch
The good times fly by really fast. Why is that?

“Joy is not in things; it is in us.” 
― Richard Wagner

Picture Postcards ~ Middle March

March 11 - Coffee and cheesecake at Poet's 

Courthouse Square wet and rainy painted with Brushstroke

Rainbow-colored pavement outside MickyD's

March 12 - Snowy day Cold North windy day

Every time

March 14 - Pi Day - Or Pie Day as we like to think of it - an excuse to indulge in a circular frozen sweet treat from the DQ (MM Treatzza Pizza!)

"The constant pi, denoted , is a real number defined as the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter
It has been represented by the Greek letter "π" since the mid-18th century, though it is also sometimes spelled out as "pi". Being an irrational number, π cannot be expressed exactly as a common fraction (equivalently, its decimal representation never ends and never settles into a permanent repeating pattern)."
Math was never my thing.
Don't say I never taught ya nothin'

March 16 - made it pop with a filter in Snapseed

March 17 - Saint Paddy's Day - The story goes that wearing green makes you invisible to leprechauns, who will pinch only those they can see - Knox was safe - Grandpa not so much -
Nice to have a helper to do the yard work hard work

March 21 - First full day of Spring - yep, it snowed ....

.... but it was all gone by sunset

December days were brief and chill,
The winds of March were wild and drear,
And, nearing and receding still,
Spring never would, we thought, be here.
~Arthur Hugh Clough (1819–1861)