Honey-yogurt scones from the Fiddlehead cookbook.

Hiking this weekend. It was Narnia the whole way.

I listened to John O'Donohue speak on one of my favorite podcasts, On Being.

He spoke about beauty, and real friendships, and mentioned Blais Pascal, who said

"In difficult times you should always carry something beautiful in your mind."

There are such things as lavender cupcakes on rainy days.

"Peril, lonelieness, an uncertain future, are not oppressive evils, so long as the frame is healthy, and the faculties are employed; so long, especially, as Liberty lends us her wings, and Hope guides us by her star."

-Charlotte Bronte (from Villette)

hearty: two definitions.

A Man's Man.
from here


I made this, I ate this with marmalade, and learned soda bread is so easy.
And Seeded Soda Bread from 101 Cookbooks

"Rest is not idleness,

and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer's day,

listening to the murmur of water or watching the clouds float across the sky

is by no means a waste of time."

John Lubbock

Starting Summer Off Right.

Oh, domesticity.

A new coat, walks in the woods, time spent drawing, reading, and eating dried cherries (thanks, Dad!).

But really exciting is house-sitting and having a kitchen and piano of my very own for a while.

Saturday was a fun night with the girls, stir-fry and Chocolate Beet Cake and Bananagrams.

On Sunday afternoon, I was the happiest girl in the world. Baking banana bread while listening to public radio (I pledged and they mentioned my name on air!) and walking the dog and curling up on the couch with mug of tea and book (currently The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver.)