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and suddenly,
it's spring.
the sun is shining,
the ice is melting
and my boots squish ankle deep
in mud
and i couldn't be happier.
spring is a game changer.
it's a whole new mindset.
it's a release
a reprieve
a cure for the winter blues
that you sometimes had
panic attacks
thinking would never come...
and then
one day you woke up
and it was here.
happy birthday little blog.
today you turn 13.
(and i'm not going to lie...
that blows my mind a little bit...
i don't stick with a lot of my projects,
but...this one has stuck pretty damn good.)
♥♥♥
this morning
the world looked like
something you see
in a picture book
about a magical land of winter and
glittery shiny ice...
veiled in a thick fog
with the sun trying to burst through.
i grabbed my phone (no camera with me, boo)
and went for a quick and somewhat cold walk
mesmerized by the bright white of the trees
and the frost covered weeds...
it was perfect.
the air smelled like woodsmoke
and faint exhaust fumes
(which, if you know me, you will know i
love the smell of exhaust fumes
almost as much as the smell of woodsmoke).
it was perfect.
i climbed a snowbank
in my work skirt and purple docs
so that i could take the photo of the
two perfect rows of trees above...
it was worth the possible humiliation
of falling off the bank into the middle of Duke street
on a busy Tuesday morning.
on the walk back, my hands tingled
and i got little chunks of road salt
stuck in my docs
and my eyes watered from the cold
and still...
it was perfect.
♥♥♥
i popped into the liquor store
to pick up some cold shots
for my husband today.
somehow
i got my thumb
stuck in the box.
"well...that's a first"
the cashier said as
she helped me wrench the box
off my hand.
she thought maybe it was a flaw in the
packaging.
i suspect, however, it was just me.
:)
I feel like I have said this before
but I definitely love the unexpected surprise
of finding a really good book
that you knew absolutely
nothing about
and had just picked up on a whim...
That was totally the case with
The Alice Network...
and I adored it.
I loved the writing, the story, the characters...
even the villians...well...I didn't love all the villians...
and then was thrilled to find out that
the book was based on some real actual women...
finding that out made the story that much better.
You should totally read this book.
Oh! and Reese Witherspoon picked it
for her book club read
(I know! I didn't know either that Reese Witherspoon,
who I adore, has a book club!!)
Oh! And she (Kate Quinn) has a blog! :)
5 out of 5 ♥♥♥♥♥'s
NEXT UP: THE WOMAN IN CABIN 10 - RUTH WARE
maybe they really are self portraits like my husband always said...
i just noticed that they started having purple in their hair...
☻ it's 7 pm and still bright out... :)
☻ i love when you really aren't expecting a movie to be that great
and then it ends up being THAT great...this was one of those movies...
darkly funny and sad all at once.
seriously...I WANT EVERYTHING!
☻ don't mess with Canada...
☻ i loved everything about this blog post...
☻ this. this was brilliant. and sad. and scary.
this blows my mind. i could watch it again and again.
Special video "Valentine's Day". From an artistic point of view, the flowers are represented in the 4 seasons. The fire for the fall, ice for the winter, fast hatching (timelapses) for the spring and color inks for the summer. Music : Velvet coffee ( Leonardo Villiger and Christophe Dugne Esquevin) https://soundcloud.com/velvetcoffee https://www.facebook.com/velvetcoffeemusic/ Director : Thomas Blanchard http://www.thomas-blanchard.com/ https://www.facebook.com/thomasblanchardgraphiste/
