I love traditions.  This is Mother’s Day, and I’m hosting lunch for the family.  I’m not cooking anything, because I don’t want to have to work.  Some of the guests are bringing food.  (We have a lot of desserts.)  And I’ve ordered a lot of good stuff from shops that make food fresh.  So I’m anticipating a good meal, a fun day, and a refrigerator full of leftovers.

Another spring tradition for us is a place called Brighton Dam.  I tell people that if they live around here and don’t go there in the spring, they’re crazy.  It borders a reservoir, and the water commission made the acres along the water into a wonderful park.  There are lots of natural trails leading through acres and acres of azaleas.   They’re fantastic now.  Many of the bushes are twenty or thirty years old, and they tower over you.  So you walk through a wonderland of natural beauty.  Or you can climb the hill and look down on a panorama of pink, salmon, purple, and white bushes.  The National Arboretum has similar trails.  But it’s farther away.  So we’re more likely to drive the fifteen minutes to Brighton.

A new tradition I’m going to miss is the BJ blog.  You know by now that we’re not going to be posting every day anymore.   So I won’t be writing you here.  But you can visit me at www.rebeccayork.blogspot.com.  Or at my web site: www.rebeccayork.com.  It’s being redesigned.  And it’s going to look fabulous.  But it’s not quite ready for prime time yet.

I hope to see you soon.
Rebecca