Sherwood Gardens

The Mears family took advantage of the beautiful weather last weekend and ventured to Baltimore, MD, to see the tulips at Sherwood Gardens. Here is a brief history of the gardens courtesy of their website:

"During the 1800s the property on which the Sherwood Gardens is located was part of the Guilford estate of A. S. Abell, founder of The Baltimore Sun. The site of the gardens was a pond, which was filled in when the area was developed for housing in 1912. Sherwood Gardens was created in the 1920's by John W. Sherwood, local petroleum pioneer and conservationist. Begun as a hobby, and planted by Mr. Sherwood with tulips that he imported from the Netherlands, the gardens have become known as the most famous tulip garden in North America."

Well, of course, Mommy is a tulip lover so this was a good opportunity to visit Sherwood again. Evan was really excited to see the tulips...Another bit of information from the website: "Approximately 80,000 tulip bulbs are planted annually along with other spring flowering bulbs. Dogwoods, flowering cherries, wisteria and magnolias bloom throughout the garden. "Mommy and Evan sat down to enjoy some flowers...Love 'em!Check these out - they have fringed edges!Funky star shaped tulips...Pretty!Evan checking out the tulips...Hey! I'm in a tree!Walking down a sidewalk, Evan saw ants. He was facinated! Happy Spring!

Easter 2009

Happy Easter from the Mears family! We had a great weekend as Wendy was in town - always such fun! We woke up and the Easter Bunny had visited. Evan was really excited and went running to his basket.Thrilled to get a Percy bubble whistle (another train in the Thomas the Tank Engine series)...Checking out his new PlayDoh toys with Daisy...Did I miss anything?After church, Evan and Aunt Wendy (aka Tia Neenee) played with a sticker book and worked on his Spanish...Time to go hunting!For eggs, of course! He had a blast finding the eggs scattered around. The Easter Bunny hid them by all his toys, on the train, everywhere!Evan was really fast in finding the eggs...Always looking for another egg...Daisy was helping too!Any under here?OK, this was funny. Evan could NOT find this egg for the life of him! Daddy gave him hints and he still could not find it. He even picked up the puppy dog, gave him a hug... And the egg was still there! Finally Evan saw it and we had a good laugh!Now we get to open them!Evan had all his bowls and was collecting his goodies...I got lots of stuff, huh? (as I have treats in my mouth!)

Cherry Blossoms

Cherry Blossom time in the DC region! This year we opted to go to our favorite neighborhood in Bethesda, called Kenwood. It was really pretty! Daddy lifted Evan for a closer look of the flowers...Evan found a rock to sit on...too cute!

Beautiful!

Chillin' on the bench enjoying the blossoms...Run, run, run, run, run!Don't you wish you had this scenery in your neighborhood? We do...

Hi! I'm in a tree!Flowering trees...

Pretty little yellow flowers growing on the ground...

Mmmm...smell pretty...

2009 picture in the blossoms...A bit different than his 2008 picture...

How about his 2007 picture...Relaxing...

Family photo...

Yawn...I'm sleepy. I'll take a nap here in the park...

After we walked around the blossoms for a while, Mommy and Daddy took me to the neighborhood park. I played a lot on the slide, a pretend firetruck, and rode on the swing a little...

Hey! Here is me swinging last year. I have grown a lot! Bye, bye!