This past week: we watched mama European Starlings feeding their babies from our suet feeder; we enjoyed a homemade-pizza party with Curtis and Julie, who were visiting from Chicago, and the next day went to the park with them, too; We got all our tomato plants in the ground, and enjoyed our first harvest of parsley from our deck planters; the purple iris that came from my great grandmother's yard via my mother's, have bloomed out front; we even got Calvin to pose for one good shot in preparation for his fourth birthday.