bocci ball and a hike to the overlook

 saturday was warm and sunny . . 

  a great day for playing bocci ball . . 

 i think i was in the kitchen . . making a salad for dinner . . oh! and roasted broccoli and cauliflower.

 morgana and i were good and stayed on our diet until . . easter sunday dessert!

 we went for a hike past the creek . . 

 (i actually felt a little wobbly on the tree trunk bridge and morgana gave me a helping hand . . )

 kathy and warren stayed on the other side . . 

 and jason decided to hike up to the overlook with us . . 

 but first we took a few pictures . . 

 it's a good walk uphill! i thought i was in shape from walking around the city . . but not really. i could use an overlook to walk to each day to stay fit . . i guess we all could . . 

 how bare and brown everything still is! next time we come up it will be all green . . 

 returning home . . 

 interesting fungi . . 

 we think this is the violet toothed polypore.

and we celebrated jason's 31st birthday! (for dinner we had our traditional good friday cod fish dinner . . even though it was saturday . . )

morning errands and penn station

after feeding our friend's rooftop garden plants and the turtle pets, we planted our cherry tomato seedlings in the raised beds at our children's garden.

and also watered all the flowers.

we discovered a few mushrooms growing under our thyme and oregano plants. i haven't been able to identify them yet, so if you have an idea, please drop me a comment.

the lettuce and arugula were growing well, and tasted delicious.

we also walked to downtown yarns so morgana could pick out two more malabrigo skeins for nana's afghan project.

after a late lunch at home, we took her to penn station. she's taking amtrak to vermont for a visit with our friend deychen (and is traveling with deychen's dad and aunt . . )

i couldn't resist taking a picture of the yellow daisies chanda and i passed at abingdon square park while walking home . .