But most importantly, I'm thankful for...

...all the fabulous people (and pets) that make my life good - including all the ones not shown here.

I'm thankful for...

Christmas in NYC • home-grown tomatoes • bananas • retro (and free!) filing cabinets • snow • Dale Chihuly glass • tea • avocados • clouds • Santa Barbara • daffodils • green plants in november • Zach's spice cookies • Boston • Vernors



What are you thankful for?

It's Snowing?

This is what Zach and I woke up to this morning. We're still in southern PA, right? It's like we're back home in New England. It's only November!

The Last Fruits of Fall

I finished the winter prep in the garden today. I actually cleaned all my shovels the way you're supposed to by sanding off the dirt and rust and applying a light coat of oil to the metal. Amazingly, some of the plants are STILL green even though we've had a few light frosts. I even found a few green tomatoes still hanging on.

Mom and Dad Visit

My mom and dad came to visit us two weekends ago. On Sunday afternoon we went to Hibernia County Park and walked along some of the trails. One brought us out by Chambers Lake, which as you can see by the bottom photo, is quite beautiful. It was a perfect fall day - lots of sun and warm colors.

Wreathy Goodness

I recently got in touch with my Martha Stewart side and made this wreath from pines cones I collected right outside our back door. I'm hoping it will last for many years.

If it's true that this is the best time of your life, if you have already lived or are now living at this age the best years, or if the next few turn out to be the best, then you have my condolences. Because you'll want to remain here, stuck in these so-called best years, never maturing, wanting only to look, to feel and be the adolescent that whole industries are devoted to forcing you to remain.

Toni Morrison

defamiliarize the ordinary

Some recent inspiration in the field of graphic design. Hope all you creative-types (and non-creative) find the following quote enlightening:

"From Impressionism to Pop Art, the commonplace and even the comic strip have become ingredients for the artist’s cauldron. What Cézanne did with apples, Picasso with guitars, Léger with machines, Schwitters with rubbish, and Duchamp with urinals makes it clear that revelation does not depend upon grandiose concepts. The problem of the artist is to defamiliarize the ordinary."

Paul Rand

Favorite Things

I have a small display box hanging in my kitchen next to the back door. Every time I look at it it makes me happy because it's filled with things I like - given to me by people I love.