23 Nisan

April 23rd is a national holiday here in Turkey - Ataturk created the first Childrens' day in 1920 -and it's celebrated each year on the same day, different things are organised for children - our pre-school decided to have a holiday - so we went to the local shopping mall where the stores had organised things for free - face painting - drawing - the toy shop had a trampoline - a bouncy castle - mini-golf for bigger children out side were all sorts of money eating machines that they enjoy. We had a nice (uneventful) lunch out and came home to play in the garden.
The garden is looking beautiful at the moment - Istanbul has glorious long springs that heat up to the summer.
This Ranunculus has naturalised - they do far better naturalised though flower later than the potted ones - this one started out in a pot a couple of years back.