The Best of April

You might expect my "best of April" to be the disappearance of winter's snowbanks and ice dams. Or the return of crocuses and daffodils.
No. It's our return to living on the deck.

This year's best signs of deck life are:
1. Pots of flowers and flowers-to-be.
2. A pair of new Adirondack chairs.

Hers.

Him with his.

Roy surprised me with the first chair yesterday, after he put it together downstairs in his home office. He thought it should be yellow. I said robin's egg blue. I wanted to buy one for him, so off we whisked today to Home Depot to choose paints and a second chair. Roy's chair -- in soft yellow -- is well on its way to its spot on the deck.

Sing, birds!