Snow? Again?

Our St. Patrick's Day was lovely!!  We didn't do too much... We had some Guinness beer, and we made shepherd's pie!  The shepherd's pie turned out really great, and wasn't too hard to make at all! 

Last weekend was a weird one!  Well no, the weekend itself wasn't weird... Just the weather was weird!  We got snow AGAIN... Even though we'd had some 80 degree temps earlier in the week! When it hit 80 we were like "Winter is over!!! Hello Spring!!", and then last weekend it really felt like Winter again. 

So, thinking that Spring was here, my friend Colleen and I had made plans to meet up at Longwood Gardens and hang out! We used to work together, and now unfortunately we don't see each other very often. But Longwood Gardens is about halfway between our houses, and it sounded like a lovely way to spend a nice day outside! We thought we could just walk all around the gardens and talk a lot and catch-up!  Well... as the weekend got closer we were seeing that the forecast started predicting snow... but we decided to just go for it anyways, especially since we'd both already bought our admission tickets! It ended up being QUITE cold and snowy, but luckily Longwood Gardens has some really enormous greenhouses that were nice and toasty warm. We literally spent HOURS wandering around the greenhouses because they're THAT big! We saw some really beautiful flowers, so I took a few pictures: 

This was a wall by the bathrooms!  These are all orchids!

Here's one of the orchids up close! They were all stunning (and real!).

This is a blue poppy!!  It made me think of California poppies :)  

These lilies were SO tall!!  They were up to my waist. I've only ever seen the potted ones at Easter, so these were ENORMOUS! 

AHHHH!!  This was a SUPER creepy baby doll attached to one of the fountains. It scared the crap out of us, and we have no idea why it's there... 

I loved these blue flowers! I think maybe they're lupines? I didn't read the marker on these ones... 

These were my favorite! They were SO cute. They looked like little cups... and they reminded me of Alice in Wonderland. 

Here's some of the snow! 

These were orchids growing in the air! The roots were hanging down everywhere. Some varieties of orchids are epiphytes, so they don't need soil and can get moisture and nutrients from the air! 

I thought I'd also give you an update on the Master Bathroom!  It's coming along pretty nicely, though we've been too busy to find a lot of time to work on it... The wallpaper is all stripped, and McGee fixed-up the walls with spackle and sanding, and then last weekend I had time to paint the walls with primer, and paint the ceiling white! I'm glad it's a small bathroom, because painting ceilings is NO fun. I hadn't noticed how dingy and gross the ceiling was though until I painted it! Now it looks so nice in there. We found one part of the wall that still needs more repairing with spackle, so then I'll have to prime that part again... But then it's ready for paint! 

Here's the "before":  

And here's after primer! 

I'm excited to get the Master Bathroom back soon!  We just have to fix that one wall and primer it, and then paint the walls, and then put the toilet and mirror back, and hook-up the new light!  It should go quickly once we're able to paint.