Irises in bloom

I wanted to share some photos of the irises that are blooming this week, they're just getting started here.  The weekend was sunny and glorious, a bit on the humid side for those of us who were roofing.  Cory and Scott finished the back half of the barn roof and have ordered more shingles for the front portion.  This will require building a more elaborate scaffolding to protect the Mother's Day Azaleas from damage.

We had a nice picnic with friends who just put in a lovely pool in their backyard, a bit warmer than the lake would be for swimming.  They have bluebirds nesting in their field, so they were fun to watch, such a brilliant blue coloring.

Cory is working for his grandfather tomorrow on his native plant collection at the arboretum.  And he has a house painting job lined up with the Alben's for later in June.  Scott has planted lots of seeds in the "meadow garden", so hopefully it will be more fruitful than last summer.

OK, so I haven't figured out how to place the photos where I want them, but at least they are included.  You will see photos of the poppies, the bathroom project and the roofing project and the iris.   Haven't sorted out how the photo labeling process works either, but we'll keep at it.

I want to try to post our book selection for the next year:

TITLE	AUTHOR
“Strength in What Remains”	Tracy Kidder
“Little Bee”	Chris Cleave
“Gone with the Wind”	Margaret Mitchell
“Isaac’s Storm”	Erik Larson
“Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks”	Rebecca Skloot
“Too Close to the Falls”	Catherine Gildiner
“Zookeeper’s Wife: A War Story”	Diane Ackerman
“What the Dog Saw”	Malcolm Gladwell
“Unless”	Carol Shields
“Cleopatra – A Life”	Stacy Schiff
Select books	xxxxxxxx
“Singular Woman”	Janny Scott