Nostalgia

This is almost painful.

Anyway, when I was a kid of four years, my parents faced the costs of essential-for-living items:

But, more recently, I've certainly seen things get smaller, not larger:

All in all, not too bad. :)

Definitely Spring

We've recently established a new garden area for our Frank Lloyd Wright Sprite based on some Chicago Fair in the early 1900's.

The designer, Bill Castlelon, really likes peonies, and he designed one into the Sprite garden.

And here it is, plucked:

It is truly awesome.