a beautiful week

 Here they are in Maria's bed, holding guinea pigs and trying to learn how to snap their fingers.

On the patio later in the afternoon:

Maria and I took the kids to Sunnylane Park for lunch.  It's a great park:  no busy road, no pond, quiet, port-a-potty, picnic tables.

 This reminds me of a line from my favorite poem, by e.e. cummings: 

"...for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes."

Summer has arrived, just that gorgeous.   Love, Val