I have made a few little adjustments now I’m back with the old design again, customizing it a bit and I hope it looks good for everyone to see. If something is amiss, let me know and I’ll see if I can sort it out.

All this boo-hoo-ing aside, I have decided to add a section to the site that might perk up a few ears. If you know me, then you know I love me some good breakfasts. I’m so going to let the awful grammar in that last sentence stay that way. Just let it sit there. Let it simmer a bit…. Yep, ok, moving on….

Breakfast page! Yeppers! There will be a breakfast page (or two or three) with recipes and a small gallery because I honestly don’t think I have it in me to basically upload the equivalent of my ginormous breakfast set from flickr. I think my eyes would fall out and I’d start stabbing myself with spoons if I did decided to make a gallery that big (752 photos thus far…. eugh…). So think of this as a sort of homage to my breakfast addiction.

Also, I’m starting to twitch a bit with the freaking-out-ness because we’ve less than TWO WEEKS before our vacation to Yosemite!

I took another trip to Tamanend the other day. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find my extra camera battery before I left so of course that meant the battery would die on me – and it did. I didn’t get too many photos, but I’m happy with the few I snatched of all the pretty azaleas around the history farmhouse in the park. Oh, and as typical with every other trip I’ve taken to Tamanend – it was raining.

Full breakfasts with pots of tea and honey make relishing these days all the better.

His breakfasts are usually minimal. A bowl of granola or sometimes only a glass of orange juice. He tends to eat his in bed while I have mine arranged precariously around the keyboard on my desk, hoping I don’t have one of my “klutzy” days and spill tea everywhere. He had the last cinnamon roll from a batch I made from scratch.

Not everything I got is shown in the photos, but I received a roll of Japanese masking tape (!!!!), a box of Jasmine tea, some beautiful needlework scissors, a mug (much to Zach’s chagrin – my tea cabinet is overfilled already and he never fails to mention this whenever we do the dishes), an adorable thermos with a black cat and roses printed on it, and a really nice mini sketch book.

The sketchbook came wrapped in this pretty paper and I LOVE the cat tape on it.

This tape is really adorable. Thank you so much Jenny!

Sometimes photos I like don’t quite make it into a post, so then I can throw them into the “randomly” bin. I was trying to do a bokeh panorama, but forgot to change my autofocus setting to manual the first time. I realized the mistake, switched the setting, and started over, but when I took the photos off the camera there was just something about Zach and the bridge and the background being all crazy bokeh that really appeals to me here.

Zach bought a case of mixed Blue Moon seasonal beer. This one was rather good, but I like the Valencia Amber better.

Orchids at Zach’s parent’s house.

Adorable border collie puppy! Someone in the neighborhood recently got this ball of floofular cuteness and I’ve seen it several times at the impromptu dog park by the river. Several Sundays ago Zach and I took a walk to the dog park and saw this pup chasing after a ball. She would then always run to the nearest humans to the ball for attention. Zach and I got a greeting as we sat on a bench and got to pet her soft puppy fuzziness. Unfortunately for the owner, there was a hole in the dirt under our bench which the pup found and immediately planted herself firmly inside because it was cool in the shade (it was one of those crazy warm upper 80s days several weeks back). Zach briefly got the puppy to go back out from under the bench by throwing a stick, but the pup stubbornly went right back to the hole under our seat so we moved to allow the owner room to get his dog back.

Short digest of breakfast photos this month.

Last week I decided to visit Tamanend park again after being delighted with it last month and much has changed. The leaves are all green and starting to fill in on the trees.

Of course, I went on a cloudy day where a very slim chance of rain in the forecast meant I was sure to be rained on. However, the shower was short and light, so I took shelter under the fledgling leaves that could provide cover.

A couple weeks ago I wandered about Tyler park and took a trail I’d not been on in a long time. After scrambling down a steep hill to an area next to a large stream I gasped to see the wooded area next to the water completely covered in bluebells.