before the rains came

Yesterday evening, before the rains came, Danielle and I went out front to play with chalk. Neighbor Alison came over and we ended up doing an impromptu chalk representation of the months of the year. Then for the photos you, of course, must be fun and goofy.

Here's January snowpersons.

February, sweethearts.
lucky leprechauns finding a pot o' gold at the end of the rainbow in the clover patch for March.
opps. Somehow a fat chick brought the Easter eggs instead of a bunny this April.
beautiful May flowers.
diving into swimming pools on sunny June days.

saluting our Armed Forces in July.

yummy pie and all American baseball games in August.

oh brother. Back to school in September. (You can tell Danielle is just a kindergarter--she doesn't get why it wouldn't be fun to go back to school.)

YIKES! Scary Halloween things for October.

Yummy Thanksgiving in November. When I was drawing the turkey Alison started drawing these yellow rings; she insisted that her dad puts pineapple rings on their turkey. When Trey came out he wondered about them and said "really? Most people put the pineapple on the ham but that sounds interesting." Then when Tony (Alison's dad) came over he said "What are those?" To which I said "the pineapple rings. Alison says you put those on your turkey." Tony started laughing and said "Alison, we put the pineapple rings on the ham, not the turkey." It was so funny. So that's what the yellow rings are on the turkey.

And Christmas for December.

Alison's older brother commented that we did a lot of work for the rain to just wash it away and we said "oh well." Sure enough, it's been quite a steady rain last night and this morning. At least we have the photos for the memories.

Happy Memorial Day!