Spring has sprung. The wisteriathis year has decided to hop across the road to the Pine tree. Fr. Mary Philip did his dead level best to kill this wisteriavine which has been here since we bought the place back in 1951. But as you can see, it has triumphed over the best efforts of man. The dogwoods were just beginning to open during Holy Week, so we didn’t have a lot of flowers with which to decorate the altar of repose on Holy Thursday night.

But the phlox on the walkway back to our kitchen had one of its best years this year. In fact it reigned from Easter Sunday to this day. Today the azaleas are coming out, so I’ll take note of getting outside to catch them on film.

One criticism of the famous nature photographer Ansel Adams was that he never took a picture of a human being. So I did want to throw in a picture of a group of those interesting creatures. This is our Father Provincial, Gregory Ross, myself, our General Definitor from Rome, the Irishman Fr. John Grennan, and Fr. John Magdalene, our director of development .