Around here ...

This has been one of the best winters in recent memory. Amazing days to get outside here and there, and only a smattering of snow. Fingers and toes are crossed that it continues.

Here was Ells on a week a few weeks back - panda bear came, too.

And another day, not quite as warm, but still sunny. Erik and Ellen walked up the street to visit friends and Ellen HAD to take her purse full of necklaces and mini maracas.

And, I know this is fuzzy, but it is pretty hard to quickly get your camera and take an in-focus shot when your child rounds the corner looking like THIS: