More grey and green

Rainy Ferry lights

Drying the dishes

Closed, with great chairs

Pretty

little bento box...from Kobo.

Color

Plants are pretty amazing, aren't they?

This pic

...makes me want to go back to bed.  I wonder if a kids book with pictures of beds/people sleeping would make them sleepy? 

A recipe for nut milk

and some very pretty pictures from Caitlin Mociun.

More words

Here's an excerpt from a post on the blog You Grow Girl.  It's number four on her list of "what makes a good gardener".

4. Failure: Perfectionism is dead. I should put that in all caps, bold, and then underline it for emphasis. Here you go: PERFECTIONISM IS DEAD. In the real world gardeners kill plants and gardens get pests and diseases. Sometimes life gets in the way and we don’t have the money to buy something we want or the time to commit to making our garden the showpiece we would like it to be. This is not evidence that you have a Black Thumb. More importantly, you learn more when you are willing to take chances & give yourself space to screw up. It’s often in those failures that we have the biggest AHA! moments. 

(Gayla also had a photoblog from 2003-2008 called Making Happy).

Words

 I was reading reviews of this book on Amazon tonight and one of them included an inspiring quote from the book, attributed to1960's House Beautiful editor, Elizabeth Gordon: "If you can't find beauty--for free--when you are poor, you won't be likely to have it when you are rich...even though you may have bought and paid for it."  When I googled the quote, this article came up.  I had this book years ago and loved it.  I think I gave it away at some point.  So I reserved it at the library.

More past on the internet

This little painting is on a shelf over our kitchen sink.  It's done by an old friend who's passed on, David Gardner (and sent to me by his sister Lynda).  Though I look at it everyday, I thought to look David up on the internet yesterday...and found this page.  Scroll down for the names.