Spring Fling (128/365)

Damian: She always looks fierce. She always wins Spring Fling Queen.
Mean Girls, Paramount Pictures, 2004

TIME: 6:53 PM
PLACE:  Grade school
SUBJECT:  StellaDella

The annual Spring Fling was held tonight at the grade school.
There were skill games, face painting, food and prizes.
SD selected a bottle of bubbles with the tickets that she won.
She does enjoy a good bubble session.

Throwback Thursday (127/365)

“Looks who's talking 'Denim Dan'! You look like the President and CEO of Levi-Strauss!”
Super Troopers, Fox Searchlight Pictures, 2001

TIME: 1992
PLACE:  My cousin’s basement
SUBJECT:  HH and me

This was taken at a going-away party for my cousin, Kathleen, who was moving to Iowa to manage a Camelot Music store.
I am wearing what I believe is called a “Canadian Tuxedo”
My earrings were purchased by my mother at an estate sale…at the home of my late kindergarten teacher.  I called them my “Miss June” earrings.
HH is wearing a sweatshirt I bought him when I was in Houston Texas for two weeks auditing 2 credit unions.
You can’t see his legs because they are camouflaged.

Shedding (126/365)

“Shedding off one more layer of skin
Keeping one step ahead of the persecutor within”
― Bob Dylan

TIME: 6:58 PM
PLACE: Home
SUBJECT: Blade

Blade shed (and ate!) his skin today.

Blades of Grass (125/365)

A blade of grass is always a blade of grass, whether in one country or another.
        Samuel Johnson—Mrs. Piozzi’s Anecdotes of Johnson. P. 100.

TIME: 6:10 PM
PLACE:  Front yard
SUBJECT:  Ornamental grass

We’ve had some warmer weather lately, which has caused my ornamental grasses to really take off.

Bisected (124/365)

Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
~Anaïs Nin

TIME: 7:28 PM
PLACE:  Parking lot
SUBJECT:  Sunset

As the sun was setting, it was bisected by a cloud.
It almost looks like there are two of them.

Four Pounds (123/365)

"Chocolate chip cookie important to me… It mean whole lot to me… Om nom nom nom."
—Cookie Monster

TIME:  9:33 PM
PLACE: Kitchen
SUBJECT:  Toll House semi-sweet morsels

Yes, that is a FOUR POUND BAG of chocolate chips.
(God bless Costco)
What do you do with such a giant bag?



You try to make a dent in it by baking cookies at 9:30 on a Sunday evening.

Rope (122/365)

Weave me a rope that will pull me through these impossible times.
Tim Finn

TIME:  7:03 PM
PLACE: Front Porch
SUBJECT:  Rope

HH and MonkeyBoy removed the rotten treads from the front porch this afternoon.
The husband then stretched a rope across the top and bottom of the stairs to discourage anyone from taking any big, and more than likely, injurious steps off of the porch.