Window Shopping

Store window, Roslyn, NY.

Snow Cone Taste-Test

This idea killed about 20 minutes of the snow day.

The winning flavors were:

1) Pumpkin Spice

2) Bosco/Coconut

3) Maple Syrup

4) Berry Smoothie/Cinnamon

5) Tequila/Lime

Georges Briard Fairy

I got to meet the lovely & elusive Priscilla!!

She came to my house to drop-off a Georges Briard

tray from one of her tag sale trips.

The last time she fairied, a gorgeous Briard appeared at Jane's house.

Bless you Priscilla!

Just When I needed It...

On a cold rainy day, at the beginning of a cold rainy week,

this book that I won, arrived from Krissy.

Just as I had made a hot cup of tea.

Thanks Krissy!!! Go visit her blog.

Like me, you'll be jealous that she has a letterpress in her basement.

San Francisco: Alpha Series

Shooting from The Hip: In San Francisco

San Francisco Zoo

If only I could have smuggled this dude in my luggage...

I would have settled for either of these.

San Francisco: Part One

We took the varmints to San Francisco for a week.

It was a big b-day for my big bro and uncle no-no nuts, and we also wanted to visit my sis, who lives north of there.

There were so many things to see,

that I couldn't possibly get it all into one post.

When we got there, it looked like this:

In fact, every morning looked like this.

Then it would clear-up like magic, & look like this.

After being stuck under 2 feet of snow, it was a welcome sight.

We thought it would be really hard getting the varmints

to adjust to pacific standard time...

it was the sunlight that saved them.

And also this spinning time machine,

which they literally spent HOURS in.

(please excuse my thumb.)

There were trees blooming, and flowers growing everywhere.

It seemed like a dream.

We did our share of touristy-type things...

And we walked for miles and miles, on city streets

and through deep woods.

The littlest varmint called this the "Darth Vader" house.

This week I'll post more about the rest of our trip,

The San Francisco Zoo, The Charles M. Schulz Museum,

and how the Georges Briard fairy came to visit me

the day after we came home.

Now if you'll excuse me...

xoh

Time-Out

I'll be back soon!

Behave.

xoh

P.S....Thanks Beth, for taking this pic of me calling "Time-Out."

After the Blizzard

Shoot from The Hip

Who lives in a pagoda under the sea?

Sponge Bob, Black Fish.

Wonder what Janet has for us today...

From Mina

Hi Folks,

Many of you have been asking me how Mina is doing.

She's fine! I just don't see her as much in the winter.

The other day I sent her a note scrawled

on a picture I took of a cat on her steps.

(I love documenting for her, who comes to call.)

2 days later, she came bearing gifts. With notes.

haven't you missed seeing her notes??!!

I love her.

xoh

There's this flirty shed up the block...

...and it has a sign that says "Blue & White."

I like to imagine that the little people have an art show

going on in the little gallery.

Shooting from The Train

This is a booming town called "Flushing."

You can get delicious dim sum here.

When you grow up not too far from Flushing,

you forget that it's a funny name.

I have probably had some of the best food of my life in this town,

and it used to have the best movie theater in the world...

a place where teenagers can play hookey & hide out in smokey balconies.

I think I saw the movie "Warriors" there.

Some other funny names along this same train line:

Manhasset (as in "That man has quite a set!")

Little Neck

Great Neck

Murray Hill

And of course: the Train House named Harold.

Arrow

"Mama...

Why is there an arrow on top of that house?"