Spent the day with Matt touring the Lewis & Clark graduate campus where he will start school this fall, and it was such a lovely spring day we stopped by a rhododendron garden where everything was in abundant bloom. I love gardens in Portland, especially in springtime! We were inspired to come home and clean out their little back garden, exposing peonies, coral bells and a little groundcover I always knew as snow on the mountain back in Minneapolis. We trimmed the beautiful burgundy Japanese maple we had planted 10 years ago, now two stories high, and a beautiful flowering shrub they planted a couple of years ago as a memorial to a beloved kitty. The results were beautiful!
Last evening we attended a function with Matt & Kimberly for the Oregon Innocence Project, where we heard a riveting speaker tell the painful story of her rape, subsequent trial of the perpetrator, and 11 years later, his conviction being overturned through newer DNA testing. They are now fast friends, and work around the country to make sure that innocent people are set free, and the pseudo-science that wrongly convicts people is no longer used.