Mother's Day is always presents a challenge of how to show my mom that I appreciate her. She lives over 1800 miles away, so it's not like I can just invite her over, or can I? This year, I decided to fly my mom up to Madison to visit for Mother's Day. Right now, where she and Dad live in Florida is surrounded by forest fires, and the smoke is quite thick. I figured she could use a break from smoke inhalation for a couple of days!
So my sister and I bought her a plane ticket. She flew into O'Hare, and I drove down to pick her up on Thursday evening. She spent the weekend, and we had a great time! On Friday, we went to Olbrich Botanical Gardens, where we sneezed our way past many beautiful flowering trees. We saw lilacs, crab apples, and eastern redbuds. Of course, we also saw a ton of tulips!
After we had seen most of the gardens, we went shopping. I took her to Odana Antiques, which just opened on Odana Road. While we were there, I found the prettiest set of dishes. I've been looking for casual dishes for the longest time! These are Noritake China, UP-SA Daisy. It's a white dish with blue daisies. Very 1960's!
On Saturday, we went to the Dane County Farmer's Market, and my sister and I bought plants for our gardens. I picked up yellow and pink snapdragons for my small, annual garden around my front light post.
That evening, we saw "Enchanted April" at the Bartell Theatre. I loved it! The play was presented "in the round," and we had first row seats. The venue was so intimate that I was actually brushed with flowers by one of the actors!
3 comments:
How cool! That's a great shot. I miss finding robin's nests in my yard when I was growing up. How fun to find one in your yard. :)
I meant to post that comment to the robin's egg picture obviously. Oops!
Sounds like you had a wonderful Mother's Day weekend with your mom. That was an awesome present.
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