Dinner Attire...

Turkey dressing

Salad dressing

Linen dressing

One Size Fits All

meow...

while the hound was guarding our domain snoozing

with visions of tennis balls running in her head…

look what the cat dragged in

do you have a...

Canine?

Or

Cat?

let the chocolate chips fall..

Research tells us fourteen out of any

ten individuals likes chocolate. Sandra Boynton

Cookies are made of butter and love.  Norwegian Proverb

A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand. Author Unknown

Chocolate is the answer.  Who cares what the question is. Author Unknown

All I really need is love, but a little chocolate

now and then doesn't hurt!  Charles Schulz

These buttery, chocolate cookies are arriving in one of my son’s campus post office today

And yes, stuffed inside each

chocolate chip cookie is a double-stuffed Oreo.

chocolate brown monogram for Bilkey

Put "eat chocolate" at the top of your

list of things to do today. 

That way, at least you'll get one thing done. 

Author Unknown

stormy...

It was a dark and stormy night…..

(Snoopy, Peanuts comic strip,

via Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton)

Baltimore Inner Harbor March 2011

the storm intentionally blurring my favorite

view of the Domino Sugar sign and the

blue lights along the Baltimore Aquarium

boats all snugged up in the docks

winds tossing numbers together

all caught up by the letter F.

That’s my story and hope Snoopy would approve!

road trips...I never sleep well when traveling

do you?

tongue-twister

She shell sea shells…

Sea sells sea shells…

She sells sea sells...

ahhhhhhhhhh!

you know what I’m trying to say,

right?

St. Augustine, Florida

March 2011

the egg list...

C.....Good Egg

J.....Good Egg

L...Good Egg

Now I wouldn’t call M. a rotten egg...

...just Bad to the Bun

Are you a Good Egg?

or

a Bun with Attitude?

Thread and Ink

Monograms: thread

Bunnies holding up Easter Egg: ink graphic

from an antique typography book

via Karen at The Graphics Fairy

wearing of the green...

May your eyes be smiling,

your beverage of choice green,

there be rainbows on your horizon,

And may all your knots be Celtic today!

Luckenbooth Celtic Knot

Slainte!

Happy Pi Day!

Pi

irrational

referring to properties of circumference to diameter

never-ending

the decimal begins with 3.14 and currently has been

expanded to 5 trillion digits and counting...

celebrated every March 14 (from 3.14)

yes, that was YESTERDAY...oops

So let’s be irrational and celebrate with pi today!

What's your favorite pi?

or rather....pie?

smell the hot oil?

Red snapper is under a rebuilding

program along the Florida coast.

so...no fish to fry on the trip last week

but back here in the ‘burgh...

the Lenten fish fry season has begun

This year’s Pittsburgh’s Catholic Fish Fry Guide

has five pages of local church fish fry locations!

And then there’s the local Fire Hall fish fry dinners…

OR…

Got any two’s??

Go Fish!

thread and ink

thread—go fish

ink—Salt and Fresh Water Fish illustration

from an antique cookbook

via Karen at the Graphics Fairy

squirrelized

just back from western New York

wait, what??

This is the best 99-cent iPhone app I have purchased lately!

Okay, yes, I am easily amused!

and a little nuts...

buzz...

queen bee

pillow talk...

...the royal buzz

nesting

A bird in the hand,

Is worth two in the bush.

A bird in an envelope,

Is worth….uh, I’m open for suggestions

thread and ink

thread...happy Easter

ink...bird in an envelope,

An old W.W. Stationer, Lewiston, Maine, advertisement

Via Karen at The Graphics Fairy

March...

...signs of spring

snow drops blooming 

and fresh asparagus