Spring for real!

It's so exciting, I just love spring! It's my second favorite season after autumn. I love the changes both seasons bring. It's really starting to green up around here. I'm looking forward to the different colors spring brings--the bright, light green of buds; the grass green of...grass; the bright splashes that are the blooming flowers; the robin egg blue of clear, sunny skies; the dark blue-green of Lake Michigan; all of it! No more sad, bare, black tree branches, scummy snowbanks, and grey waves of water crashing on a frozen beach.

If one thing says spring more to me than anything, it would have to be tulips. There is just something magical about them. I've decided that someday in my life I have to get to this tulip festival in the Skagit Valley of Washington. Can you imagine, fields and fields of tulips set against the Cascade Mountains?

Saturday Picks (yes, I know, I've missed several of these)
Music: Josh Groban. I love Josh Groban. Love love love!
Reading material: Not a book, as I haven't had enough spare time when I'm not asleep to finish the books I've already mentioned! Instead, it's a newspaper, The Shepherd Express, that is a weekly alternative paper here in MKE. This week they had the City Guide, which is chock-full of good restaurants, entertainment, and the like for the city and surrounding areas. Nick and I are going to be picking our Friday night dates from this for a while! Last night we went to Cafe Hollander, where we've been before, but is very good. I had a turkey sandwich with blackberry jam and giardiniera (pickled jalapenos). It sounds like a strange combination, but the sweet jam and spicy peppers play together very nicely!
Covet: the perfect bedroom set. I've been browsing the internets but haven't found something that is me yet. Everything is so big, or has leather, or is just plain ugly. I will find it though!


Peace and love,
M