Spring has sprung

We've had barely one week of extra daylight, and everyone in our neighborhood seems to be out to enjoy it. The Boy, for one, now insists we go for a bike ride after his nap. "Because it's not dark yet," he says. In addition to a profusion of blooms, half of whose names I do not know, here's what I saw yesterday evening while walking him around just one block:

A neighbor walking his bike-riding kid around the block

A girl in flip flops sitting on her porch

An old lady on her porch tending to some flowers

Two boys comparing their bicycles on the sidewalk

A girl practicing hoops in front of her house

A dad helping his son with his homework on their front stoop

A recently-abandoned jump rope (pink and purple)

Three teenagers playing basketball in the street

A boy on a tree-hung rope swing, calling to his mom that he'd come inside in a minute.

The Boy stopping every ten feet to get off his bike and pick a dandelion