Well the weather finally seems to be turning the corner into summer, but I’m not holding my breath about it! The other day i posted a picture of some tulips in our back yard garden – here is a picture of the tulips a couple days later – the color is darned glorious!

And the cherry tree has finally bloomed, but it looks like a lot less blooms than last year. Guess we’re not going to get a bumper crop this year!

One of our friends was heading to Cancun, Mexico but has been forced to cancel due to the swine flu pandemic that threatens to envelope the globe. Is that something or what? The scale of it seems incredible, with Mexico City considering shutting down public transit! Wow – that’s an amazing reaction.

Surely, in this day and age, a flu pandemic cannot be THAT serious, can it? They say that up to a quarter of a million people die from the flu yearly, so will this drive that number up significantly? I always worry about how the media approaches these kinds of stories. Headlines from many papers are over top really, creating fear and worry among anyone with a sniffle or a cough.

SWINE FLU GROUND ZERO screams one headline; SCIENTISTS PERPLEXED BY SWINE FLU screams another; even the New York Times is adding to the hysteria with silly pictures of people with masks on… the practice of wearing a mask can actually INCREASE your chances of getting the virus, people! Here’s a link to a story if you don’t believe me.

RELAX – chill out. This too will pass….