Morning View

 The visual was a surprise but the actual view of my camera's shot was better than I thought it would be. 

 The color is wonderful even though the blooms of the hyacinth seem undeveloped.  I don't think our weather will ever give me the blooms that you see when they are grown in a green house. 

 The red bud tree is starting to show more color. It has a few more days to go to start looking showy. At a distance one can see a haze of the color. 

 The sky color looks great with this view of the tree in the foreground. We had an inch and of a half of rain last night. The wind plus the hail made it into a very noisy storm. When the hail started hitting the north west end of the house I couldn't figure out what was happening.

 My birthday card was another creative one this year. My wife can find them on the net and I get paper sculptures that open up as the card is open.  We usually do our taxes after my birthday so today was the day. It got complicated as the preparer had to call one of the companies to get an accurate set of figures from an investment we had closed down in the middle of the year. The preparer and I had to talk to a non-English speaking person. I had to prove that I was the person who owned the investment and I kept reading off numbers that were on one of my papers. Eventually she agreed that I was who I said that I was. The preparer had the same problems with her speech so we ordered a new printout that should be in the mail in the next two days. We will have to return with that printout to finalize our tax filing. If we didn't have the exact paper we would probably be audited in two years and also fined. 

Thanks for stopping by today.