Hoppy Easter!

There's been an Easter Bunny sighting...







Wait a minute!
It's Marley, pretending to be the Easter Bunny!


Silly Rabbit!

Hope Floats

Reuters - A man who hoped to pop the question to his girlfriend with a helium balloon instead watched his plans float into the sky.


Doh! Remember what it felt like as a child when you lost a balloon? And watched it float away until it was a tiny speck, headed toward Pluto (back when Pluto was a planet)?
Talk about deflated dreams.

I wonder if she said "yes."

There Will Be Bed

Our grown-up bed arrived today!
It took forever to make the bed -- I may have to hire a team.

I couldn't get the whole bed in one photo -- Smokey added for perspective.

Ripley added for cuteness perspective.

Other options for this post title:

Sailing the Seas of Bed
Welcome To Bedlam
The Literal Definition of BEDroom
Far And Away, or Are You There Will? It's Me Josie.

Pink Popcorn!

Pink popcorn!!

Atonement

I just saw this movie for the second time. I loved it just as much as the first viewing. I fell under its spell, which is a lot to say from a self-proclaimed movie snob. I found it practically flawless (I typically view a film and then dissect it to death, imagining what I would change had I been the director, actor, cinematographer, screenwriter, composer, etc...), and cannot wait to own the DVD in hopes of extra scenes that were not in the released version. During the second time I was able to focus on more details (visual, and especially symbolic) and the more I think about the movie the more fond of it I become. Obsessed? Perhaps. I usually become obsessed with about one movie each year (previous "winners" include Pan's Labyrinth, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and A Very Long Engagement.) However, I'm generally proud of my taste in movies (i.e. obsession) and I consider myself very lucky to live in the time of film. Geesh, what in the world did people do before cinema?

Found In My Garden

Sixty five degrees, cloudless sky...

I found popcorn popping on my plum tree!

In Bloom: pansies, rosemary, irises, tulips, fresia, purple violets, calla lilies, fruit trees.






Lucy



Sun Dog (note the smile)

Though likely premature, I find myself with spring fever, madly plunking flowers in dirt, sitting in the sun in my sundress and flip flops and trying to ignore the goosebumps on my skin. I was reminiscing the other day about August dry heat and mentioned that I miss the State Fair. The State Fair represents almost inescapable heat, on black asphalt, with crowds gathering under misters -- and I can't wait for it. *Sigh.*