It's raining, it's pouring

While North America heats up and sizzles or gets dusty, it's been a wet, gray, freezing winter here. It's been raining, and raining more than before.

Meanwhile, I've celebrated a birthday, and got the warmest greetings via Skype! This was the first time I was on Skype ever. Isn't today's communication technology amazing?

(That's the clearest size I could do with the snapshot of my mother and youngest sib)

More on the birthday next time and a Frolic post.

(Photo above from the Hunter Boot Ltd. gallery on the RHS Chealsea Flower Show 2011.)