Friday Smiles 61: The color of a spring day

It's Friday, and time once again to visit Annie at A Stitch in Time for our end-of-the-week smile. I confess it's been a busy week for me, because I've been gone more than I've been home.  Were it not for the late nights I spent on my computer visiting my blogging friends, I wouldn't have accomplished much at all.

So I'm not sure what there is to smile about this week, other than to show you scenes I photographed yesterday when Sally and I ran some errands.

The back story here is, I keep telling all my British and European friends how lovely their GREEN grass is, while mine has either been covered with the white stuff (which we just got rid of by the way), or was the color of dead brown.


So yesterday, I took my camera to capture some scenes on the way to our destination, and to show some of you not familiar with American cities, what part of mine looks like  (note to Bleubeard: remind me to crop the half open window out of the photos next time).  I have no idea how the brown leaves stayed on the above tree all winter, since it's been so windy, but I assure you, I was as shocked as you when I saw it.

Those geese have taken up residence around the river and beyond, because people misguidedly fed them the first year they stayed over the winter.  Now they won't leave and they occupy all areas of the city, not just the rivers.  In case you are interested (which you probably aren't), this is the Little Arkansas River.  The Big Arkansas River is about one mile west and helps isolate my neighborhood from excessive traffic and theft.

As we drove through residential neighborhoods, I noticed even more trees that had kept their leaves through our hard and windy winter.

Soon we were going so quickly, I had to roll the window up, but was still able to snap a few shots.  As you can see, the only green is the evergreens.

Once we slowed down, I rolled the window down again, thinking I had gotten it down far enough.  The nice thing was, Sally's glass is tinted green, so there is a false sense of spring 

in these photos. 

Granted, the neighborhoods we drove through were what one would consider definitely "working class," but you can see, no matter where we drove, there was no green to be seen.  I suspect that will put a smile on your face, if you live in green Britain because you are so lucky, or it will put a smile on your face because your area is white with snow, or your area is brown like mine.  Regardless, I hope you smile, if for no other reason than it's nearly the weekend, and Annie at A Stitch in Time has links that truly WILL put a smile on your face.