Spring is trying

Well, if spring can try, then so can I. Here's what I mean: the weather is milder (not warm, mind you,) the mud has dried up, the grass and hardier plants are trying to push past the mountains of dead leaves that have covered them all winter (the drawback to the "world-famous New England autumn") and the daylight is lasting until the sevens!

So my "try" is in the spring cleaning department. I've begun by going through my drawers and closet, throwing things into two piles: give away and pack away (for winter) and spiffing up areas in my house that I've been whining over for months. 

So behold, my new and improved kitchen:

A work in progress. Why must it always get worse before it gets better?

Success by morning, though! Look at my storage options and imagine me standing up on my kitchen counter roughly 1/3 as often as things previously stored there are now at normal height!

And even though this picture is (ironically) dark, the parts I want you to notice are the lights hanging so clean and pretty right above my previously-dark work surface. Score!

This is the patch of color that my eyes feast on as I walk to work. The grass is trying to be green, the trees are trying to put out leaves (hey trees, don't hurry, yeah, take your time, that's right, we'll wait,) but the forsythias are going BONKERS. A happy, explosive yellow hello, just for me, every day. God is good.