Under the Tulip Tree

Our Days

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Lately we've been...

Watching the rain, working on book reports, reading tons of old comic books, working on greeting card assignments, messing up the kitchen, and driving each other just a little bit batty.

That's life in a small house.

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Enjoying A Sunny Morning

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Gazing out the window, nibbling on my new favorite snack: Waffle with ricotta cheese and honey.

My goodness that winter sun feels good.

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Alicia and Andy's Home Tour

You saw this home tour coming. I mean, how could I resist?

I love their house.

Not only because it's beautiful and lovely and exquisitely decorated, but also because it's the backdrop to so many of our family dinners and special occasions. It's become a part of my children's history.

There are bits and pieces of my past here, too. Things from our old house that I've forgotten about. Things of my grandmother's that are so cemented in my memory that it's shocking to see they actually exist.

I loved taking pictures of their house and I loved talking to them about it in a way I never have before. I hope you enjoy the tour. We sure did. I couldn't included every photograph or comment (a-hem) but I still laugh when I read it. And that makes me very happy.

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The Best of Me

Every December I think to myself: I can do this. I can get through winter. I can make it. But once the holidays and the birthdays and the parties are over, it's the end of January.

And the end of January brings me to my knees. And reminds me that I have such a long way to go, and that winter is far from over.

I miss my garden.

I miss the soil.

I miss the blue sky.

I miss sunlight that gets higher than the treetops.

I miss all that stuff, and it's only the end of January.

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For Want of Snow

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We're hoping it sticks.

They're saying it won't.

We're hoping anyway.

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Birthday Cheesecake

I made a vanilla cheesecake for Michael's birthday. I believe it was the first time in a very long time that I didn't screw up a very, very simple recipe. I don't know what my problem is lately but it seems that every time I go to bake something I'm adding whipping cream instead of buttermilk or two cups of something instead of one cup of something or forgetting the salt or adding too much butter or, just, screwing it up. It's driving me batty. But other than having to bake it for a whole 25 minutes more than the recipe called for (not really sure why), it was a yummy, rich, creamy, dreamy, vanilla-y success!

And my house smelled really good.

And the cheesecake is this golden color because that's the color of the sugar I use.

And I need to get some different tablecloths because this white one is boring me silly.

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Black and White Morning

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The fog flattened out all the color and added a grainy quality that I didn't expect. Almost like black-and-white film.

I love taking pictures of trees.

And fog.

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