Warmth of clean sunshine on wool

Rosemary for remembrance

"There's rosemary; that's for remembrance. Pray, love, remember." ~Shakespeare, Hamlet

Equisite cupcakes

Now - I don't aspire to create those fondant-perfect cupcakes - although I realize that the Buddha cupcake is of that ilk - but the ideal cupcake should be lovely but also edible!

Soft and sugary and not box-taste-y...warm vanilla-laced cake...

OK, ok, I admit it - thank you Martha Stewart for sponsoring the "cutest cupcake" contest from whence these photos came.

Finally, I do have to ask, what's with all the cupcake mania these days?

The approach of raspberry season

My first thought this morning was of my granny's raspberry patch out in back of her house. Drenched in sun (as well as thorns, bees), this garden produced tremendous amounts of fruit each June/July...and was bordered by illegal gooseberry bushes, but that is a story for another day...The effect of the warming sun on those most red-pink of berries is phenomenal - we were lucky to get the berries before all of the various creatures living in the garden, but we still managed to get enough for copious amounts of jam....as usual, Amelie captures the joy of childhood in this photo...