One of the places we were supposed to go last year was Iceland. Our trainer had been there and it sounded perfectly wonderful, but….

Today, our trainer told us that he will be going to Iceland again in early July of this year, along with his family. It still sounded wonderful, but….

And then when we got home, we had a note from the National Trust for Historic Preservation asking if we were interested in seeing Iceland this year. Yes, we were! (Besides, they still had our deposit from last year!)

Even better, our son is now scheduled for his first COVID-19 vaccination on Friday, so he’ll be fully-vaccinated by the time our trip happens. Icelandair has non-stop service to Boston, so we are planning to visit him on the way home.

Things are looking up!

It was Sunday, so we made our usual trip to the Farmers’ Market with a walk through town afterwards. It was a warm morning, and the streets and parks were much busier than they had been a month ago.

The Billy Jones Wildcat Railroad was back in operation and there was a long line of people waiting to buy tickets and ride. It was good to see, but I’m glad we weren’t planning to join them.

This afternoon and evening, I finally sat down to work on the Spring Almaniac; I hadn’t done an Almaniac for several years but thought this would be a good year to get back to it. I finished two of the ten chapters today and am pretty confident of most of my answers.

We took a couple of other walks, too, which gives me the excuse I need to share a picture of a Japanese Flowering Cherry in the neighborhood.