Summer Cool

Today was chilly for summer, 64 degrees in Lansing, MI. It was actually a welcome reprieve, not to mention not nearly as many mosquitos! Here are some photos that have a crisp and cool sense to them, whether in style, color, or feel.










(sorry this last photo is a bit big, click to see more than just feet!)


“Break, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, O sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson

“The color of truth is gray.”
Andre Gide

Thoughts on a rainy day

I love the rain. As a little girl, I would go outside, fully outfitted with raincoat and umbrella (Beauty and the Beast on both) boots optional, and just sit in the driveway. Or if it was sunny outside and I wanted rain, I'd climb under the dining room table with my umbrella and pretend that it was raining.

Hope you enjoy your rainy day!

"Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby."
~Langston Hughes

"The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain."
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"The best kind of rain, of course, is a cozy rain. This is the kind the anonymous medieval poet makes me remember, the rain that falls on a day when you'd just as soon stay in bed a little longer, write letters or read a good book by the fire, take early tea with hot scones and jam and look out the streaked window with complacency."
~Susan Allen Toth, England For All Seasons

Happy June Day!

April 1st gets April Fools Day, May 1st gets May Day, so I'm making June 1st unofficial June Day. Its an official celebration of one of my favorites, white linen.



Welcome to summer everyone!

"Its a beautiful day!"

This is what Baby Elizabeth said every morning, rain or shine. I'd stand on my little changing table, look out the window and exclaim (as loud as possible) "Its a beautiful day!"

Today it really is though, even grown-up Elizabeth can say the same. :)




Hope you're enjoying this lovely weather!

Audition weekend

Greetings from Indianapolis!

I am on my way to Bloomington to audition for some operas for IU in the fall. That's right folks, the final tally is in and I am attending Indiana Jacob's School of Music!! I am in no way going to be a Hoosier (what even is that?) but I am excited about the fall!

So anyway, we'll see how the audition goes, at least then they'll know what I look/sound like for the fall auditions.

Wishing you a happy weekend full of sunshine, I know its going to be a bit colder, but it'll still be sunny!!

Happy April

And so it is, friends, that on this sunny spring morning, I finally say HAPPY APRIL!!!

What, its only 14 days late?!?

Life has been hectic lately, I can't wait to be done with school, not that I have senior-itis, but I just want to be home. Lolling in the garden, cleaning my room, enjoying the sunshine. And with graduation comes a myriad of things that need to be done, invitations, senior recital (some music still not memorized, ahh!), dinner plans, etc. Yes, this will be me in less than a month!! About 24 days from now. Then I will have earned my B.M. And that's Bachelor of Music, not the other abbreviation.



Well, in my blogging absence, Spring has gone and snuck right up on us! Its so beautiful out, still a bit nippy, but the campus is simply breathtaking. There's Daffodils, Tulips (I wonder if there are threelips, ha ha), Dogwoods, the Magnolias are peeping and the weeping cherry.



This one looks like it could be MSU, there's even some Asians there!

Among other things, Easter came and went, I hope you all had a lovely Easter. I'm still eating A LOT of candy, which is bad news because the season for ice cream is also upon us. Well, technically there is no "season" for ice cream, I'm a year-round eater, but its true that it is most useful in the warmer seasons. Honestly, I could eat this everyday, especially because its so pretty!! :)



Happy Wednesday!!

Breakfast

I'll say it again because I can't get tired of it...I love breakfast.



I especially like eggs for breakfast, not quite this many eggs, but still...

And I like pancakes for breakfast, and look at that fruit!:



And most importantly, we can't forget the coffee (and the delicious shortbread):



And I'm not the only one who feels this way about this all-important meal...

“He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart”
C.S. Lewis quotes

"All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast."
John Gunther

"Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper."
Francis Bacon (haha, I wonder if he eats bacon for breakfast!)

"I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast."
Elizabeth II

And one of my favorites that recently had a starring role in the new "Alice in Wonderland" movie...

"Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."
Lewis Carroll

Happy Thursday and happy breakfasting!