May 24

Well it came as no surprise.  I should have known better.  The rapture came and went and passed us by.  Oh well.  Life continues and so do birthdays.

Speaking of birthdays, the better half of our team celebrated her birthday on the 24th.  She continues to be 39.  It was a special day starting with a spinach and bacon souffle at Panera Bread.  After digesting both our breakfast and the daily paper, we went to the Olbrich  Botanical Gardens in Madison here  The gardens lie on a 16 acre tract along Starkweather Creek and across from Lake Monona.

It was a rather cool and overcast day and the gardens were abuzz with volunteers removing bulbs, planting annuals and providing a general clean up.  Signs of spring (finally) were in the air and the blossoms were still evident even after the recent storms.

The jewel known as the Thai pavilion seemed out of place with the spring colors.

There were far more volunteers in the gardens than visitors though a bus load of school children from Mount Horeb were evident. 

It was a ducky day (or turtle-y?)

We were almost enraptured.