cody bear's friends

Sometimes (and by sometimes I mean alllll the time) friends have babies and then they pretty much disappear.  It looks like that isn’t going to be the case this time with my friend April.  She has always been there for me and is such a good person with a huge heart.  And now she has this baby. He’s almost a year old, and also….he doesn’t cry when he sees me like most babies do!

So yesterday I took the morning off from work to get my sad car worked on.  April picked me up at the mechanic and we took the bairn to the Tucson Botanical Gardens where I forced him to smell things.

It was just a good day.

I have a membership to the gardens but I rarely go in the winter months.  Not much is in bloom….unless you look closely!  Some tiny cacti had blossoms.  Even the little living rocks! I’ve never seen them bloom before.

living rocks

There were Painted Lady and Queen butterflies everywhere we looked.

Then I got dropped off at the garage with my camera bag and a $3 Swedish Ivy.  The plant of my people.