Sunday already? Seems like this happens every week! With luck we’re down at Roundrock today, watching spring emerge and maybe grilling some meat over a fire. The redbuds and dogwoods are mostly finished with their bloom up in Kansas City. I’m pretty sure that means Libby won’t get to see the redbuds at Roundrock. And since we don’t have dogwoods there, she won’t get to see those either.

We will have to get back early from our day in the woods, though, for certain celebrations. (My good friend Duff says that today is a rehearsal for Father’s Day.)

Larry Ayers’ blog Riverside Rambles was down for a few weeks, and I feared the worst. I couldn’t connect to it at all. I was happy to find earlier in the week that he had returned and had a new post up. Apparently he had some server issues that are now resolved, so why don’t you head on over there and tell him how good it is to have him back.

They’ll be raising more than frolic over at Raising Frolic. A long-anticipated item finally arrived over there.

The second anniversary edition of the Festival of the Trees is coming up, and it will be hosted by Wren of Wrenaissance Reflections. (Careful followers of the Festival will recall that Wren hosted the first anniversary edition at her former blog.)

Wren’s deadline for submissions is May 29. You can send her your links at jlblum [at] Wrenaissance [dot] com (be sure to put Festival of the Trees in the subject line) or by using the handy online submission form.

What is Pablo reading now? I am currently in the middle of Ceremony in Lone Tree by Wright Morris. He is considered one of the essential authors of Midwest regionalism. I’m reading this one for the library book discussion group I’m in. The social justice group didn’t meet last week, so we didn’t get to distill all of the moral implications from The Road. We may revisit it in the fall. What are you reading?

Missouri calendar:

• Mother’s Day
• Blackberry winter; a cold spell may occur, freezing blackberry blooms.

Today in Missouri history:

• In 1823, St. Regis Seminary, the first such Indian School for boys in the U.S., begins operations at Florissant under Jesuit supervision.

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