Can you feel it?  The birds are chirping, the sun is shining, and the people are smiling!  Ahh … Spring is in the air.  And it has made its way into our little cottage.

Nothing says Spring like white wicker and a pile of Shabby Chic pillows on the sun porch.  You’ll find me curled up with a magazine or two later today!

I can’t seem to get enough of these white camellias snipped from the garden!  They look like delicate white ruffles.

And what have we here?  Are those spinach leaves?  Why yes I think so!  My family has its fair share of seasoned, at-home gardeners, but somehow the green thumb gene skipped right over me.  I keep planting though, every year.  I planted this spinach in the fall, ignored it real good, and then surprise… Spring spinach.  I will be attempting tomatoes for the umpteenth time soon, and as always I will somehow manage to muster up much enthusiasm.  Even though, I have never grown an edible tomato — ever.  Fingers crossed!

My Aunt gave me enough of this beautiful china to completely fill my china hutch.  It’s such a pretty pattern I couldn’t have chosen better myself.   Appropriately named Apple Blossom, by Theodore Haviland.