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Spring is definitely HERE.
The weather is absolutely perfect today on this Easter Sunday.
I thought I'd take a few pics of the wonderfulness going on in my yard.

Irises. I love how they look before they unfurl themselves too.

Azaleas. Pretty!

A little ladybug on the daisies. See her in there?

The tall skinny thing on the left is a fig tree that sprouted itself. How cool!
The others are a giant rose and a lilac.

Awww, daisies. Bless their hearts, they bloom all year round, even in nasty winter storms.

And there are things sprouting inside the house too! Right there on the kitchen counter.

**Well, Ms. Katherine Tyrrell has outdone herself. She now has a special post about commissioning art featuring ~ yes, this piece ~ and Nicole and I on her blog. Its really great!***
Thanks Katherine!

Lookie here on Making a Mark to see the happy owner with her new piece! (Scroll down to the botttom of the post.)
My buttons are bursting!

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Have been working on the marketing over the last few days, sending emails with my press release to a number of Autism Societies across the country, and generating an address labels page for others. It's amazing how many there are; I am up to only page six of more than twenty pages in a google search. I figure if I do ten a day, I might finish in a month or two.

The good thing is that I have had a few responses, too, and have sent out a few books for review.

In addition, I have joined some listserves and introduced myself, which has generated a good deal of traffic on my website.

And from one of the listserves, I received the inspiration to write an article about grandparenting a child with autism, in response to a question asked about how to do that. So I have started working on that.

Then, I was reading my new SCBWI Bulletin yesterday, and found a publisher looking for books with the same criteria as the first one I wrote, which does not yet have a home...so of course, I sat right down and submitted it.

The weather here is warm, windy and wet. Barry is passing through...don't know the name of the first storm...I seemed to have missed that one. But the rain is what we need, so welcome, Barry.