Look!  I figured out how to post pictures that are a reasonable size!  But they still get somewhat distorted....  I'll have to work on it some more.

These are orange azaleas from my sister's front yard in Eugene.  We had to do the "Mom duty" this weekend and travel down to "Used Jeans" for a Mother's Day visit.  Spent most of the time shopping with my mother and/or sisters.  On Saturday, we did the big "plant shopping" excursion.  I had several favorite garden shops/greenhouses that I frequented when I lived down there, and I haven't found good ones up in this neck of the woods yet.  So I look forward to going to my old haunts down south and hauling the plants all the way back home.  Unfortunately, yesterday's weather was not very conducive to this activity....these little storms kept blowing through, dropping buckets of rain on us, and then moving on and leaving us soggy but sunny.  Very MUCH "spring in Oregon" weather.  But my 82-year-old mother isn't much up to dodging raindrops between the car and the store (in her wheelchair), so we didn't go to nearly as many places as I was hoping.  Oh, well, I'm about out of plant-buying funds anyway.  Did manage to buy a nice planter with geraniums, hardy fuchsias, and some other goodies in it for the Mom.  What else do you buy for the woman who has everything and nowhere to put it?

Today, we did Wal-Mart, Bi-Mart, and Goodwill.  I needed to go to Goodwill, because I have like one pair of pants left in my closet that still fits me.  I picked up three pairs of pants for $13.  Beats paying $50 for ONE pair, which is what you'd pay at the Gap.  When you need to restock your closet after losing a lot of weight, resale shops are definitely the way to go.  My other favorite clothing haunt is Nordstrom Rack...where, two weeks ago, I paid $12.99 for the exact same jeans I saw on sale at Meier & Frank yesterday for $35.  I like clothes...but I am cheap!

Well, that's the story of MY weeknd.  Woo-hoo!  I know in most parts of the country, Mother's Day is already over...but I'd like to wish a Happy Day to some of my special J-land friends whoare also Mothers--- Cynthia, Kat, Marcy, Mary, Donna, Karen, Lisa, Kristi---and anyone else I may have forgotten to mention.  You ladies have given me an insight into motherhood that I never had before.  I want you to know that, through all your trials and tribulations with your various broods, I am rooting for you!  Hope you were all wined, dined, pampered and petted on your special day.