May Days

 " Never yet was a springtime when the buds forgot to bloom"  

~Margaret Sangster

Spring weather has finally come to my part of Colorado and as always it is a joy to see nature come alive again.

My first sighting of a robin this spring was on May first!

I am in a "Colorado Gardening" group on Facebook, and many of the participants are anxious to begin planting their vegetables in their gardens, but the wise ones who have lived here longer are advising them to wait a bit longer as we may still have frost and even snow.  When I lived in New York City I learned to wait to plant until after Mother's Day, which is May 14th this year, so I can be patient a bit longer.

My son planted tulip bulbs in their garden last fall and this spring they all bloomed so beautifully! 

With afternoon skies that often look stormy like these, one would think we would have had a lot of rain, but the clouds move East quickly and we remain dry.

The Rocky Mountains are still covered with snow, and we had a great view of them in the distance at our youngest grandson's little league baseball game this past week.

Spring also means we have been attending our oldest grandson's lacrosse games...

...where we saw a large herd of elk grazing the new grass...

...and some pretty canyon views on our drive home.

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A strange sight along a major highway in our area recently.  I'm guessing a truck cab sale? In the background, tucked into the hogback mountain, is a famous Colorado racetrack called Bandimere Speedway.  Bandimere Speedway, also known in the NHRA as Thunder Mountain, is a quarter-mile dragstrip located just outside Morrison, Colorado, and Lakewood, Colorado. It opened in 1958 and hosts the NHRA's Dodge//SRT Mile-High Nationals. The facility has a seating capacity of 23,500 spectators. This will be its last season in this location as they sold their property. They hope to relocate and re-open in a new location. We pass it all the time but have never been there. 

So this is our spring so far, with more busy times ahead with the end of the school year for our grandchildren and their sports and activities. I hope you are also having a good spring (or fall)! Let me know what you are planning for summer in my comment section below.

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