Flowers, flowers, everywhere

Are we lucky, or what? Today is our 47th anniversary and also our p-day! So after working five hours on our presentations for the YSAs conference in Germany next month, we took a ride out into the Emmental countryside. I think we deserved it! There are flowers in windows all over Switzerland, but here in Emmental folks seem to compete to produce the most glorious displays. They are on houses, sheds, parking lots, and road signs. We have seen them on car dealerships and food stores, on stairways and firewood stacks. We drove up a mountainside (it's not the Alps, but beautiful) and had a cold drink at a little restaurant. (They are EVERYWHERE) My dear Lenski indulged my every whim by stopping to take pictures and even turning back to get something we passed. What a guy!

One of the presentations we are preparing is about marriage and it has made me reflect on the blessing of mine/ours. There are no perfect marriages, but ours has, with its "learning experiences," been very satisfying to me. I'm grateful for that, especially today.

Some have asked about our title photo. We took that in the Toggenburg area. That's where Wildhaus is. This view is across the valley looking toward the from Wildhaus area.

Yummy, huh?