Backyard "Chalking"

I love our backyard. This is probably only the beginning of your hearing a lot about how much I love our backyard and our deck, especially this summer. Seriously, though, this backyard thing is brilliant.

Sarah loves it too. Yes, she also loves wearing butterfly wings, why do you ask? She also loves "chalking" on the little patch of cement at the bottom of the deck stairs. We spend a lot of time doing this. Oh, and about those "weeds." Well, some of them really are weeds. Tricky things get big quick here in Missouri with plenty of both rain and sunshine recently! But see the tall skinny things? Those are wild onions (chives?), of all things! I love to pull them up and smell the roots--heavenly. Actually, our whole yard does have the faint scent of onions. David thinks I should try to harvest them and cook with them, but I am not so sure . . .

Sarah is also a fan of the dandelions.

"Hmmm, what shall I draw next?"