A Very Fine Sunday

This picture doesn't begin to convey the busyness we found at our local park when we walked there this afternoon. The temperature was almost 70 degrees. The playground was full of parents and grandparents and preschoolers and grade schoolers. . . and dogs! Many were walking or jogging. We passed several mothers encouraging new bike riders: "Look where you're going!" "Are you too tired to keep riding?" (She and the 5-year-old were both WALKING their bikes.)
It was glorious. I walked around the yard when we got home to look for flower stems pushing through the dirt and to see bushes showing buds and baby leaves. We're supposed to have highs in the 70's all week, and Evelyn, bless her, said, "If this keeps up, we'll need to mow." (This is just an illustration to show that we're on a fallen planet. Even 70 degrees and sunshine in March does not make this Paradise.)
Actually, the mowing's already started. The award goes to the fellow who lives on the corner of Lurmer and Kelly Marie who was out with his edger when we left for church this morning. He not only edged, he mowed! It smelled good as we walked past. Looked good too. The rat.

Church was wonderful this morning. The platform was filled with a 50-voice choir, brass quartet, and 12- or 15-member bell choir. They began the service accompanied by piano and organ and all the other instruments and voices. And the brass accompanied all the rest of the worship songs, along with the other instruments we usually have on Sundays (guitars, bass, drums, percussion).
 I couldn't help being moved by the singing and the playing . . . and the singERS. "Because He lives, I can face tomorrow. . . . Life is worth the living, just because He lives." We've heard the words a hundred times, but knowing how much they mean to so many of the people on that platform is indeed a powerful testimony.

The folks at Krogers
did a good job
displaying the red tomatoes with
 the fresh green asparagus.

Evelyn and I ate a late breakfast after church, and then came home to our list of tasks: she graded papers; I went to the grocery and got the oil changed in my car and then came home to finish reading a proof and polishing an editorial.
I made a a big salad for supper; Evelyn toasted the leftover pita bread from our dinner out last night and we ate it with the salad and with leftover hummus also from the restaurant. Geoff called while we were eating dinner, and it was good to catch up with him.

It's been a good day. I may have made it sound busy, but actually it had a relaxed feel about it, and I'm ALMOST ready for a week that promises to have some challenges.