i Everyone! We’re home!! So happy to be here, and back to what we would like to call "normal" … we drove into the driveway, after the cross-country trip, culminating on the ferry across the sound, just one week ago today. We’ve been unpacking; I went to a Mother’s Day Tea with my girlfriends (everyone wore hats!); this afternoon we’re going to see the new Jane Eyre at a 4 pm matinee and then dinner in Edgartown to my favorite place for tomato soup and grilled cheese sandwich, the Atlantic Restaurant. Because it’s blustery and cold here (normal in early May), a movie and grilled cheese sounds perfect. Has anyone seen it yet? I hope it’s good; it’ll take alot to beat the BBC/Public Television edition filmed in 2006 — which I bought after seeing it on Netflix, I loved it so much.
e’ve had some warm days too…on those days I started planting the garden. So far, in the ground, we have lettuce, sweet peas, strawberries, lemon geraniums, and clemetis (Miss Bateman). And lots more to go…
bout five minutes ago, a truck from the local nursery pulled up in our driveway with a new Dogwood tree, to take the place of the old one that finally, after years of beautiful springtime bloom, went to tree heaven. The house didn’t feel the same without it. So Joe’s about to put it back.
es, we made it home alive, despite scary winds across Kansas.
es, scary; was only in the dark for about 4 seconds, and only twice that day, but that was enough, really, for a lifetime, thank you.
hile on the road — somewhere in Pennsylvania — we got up at 4 am to watch The Wedding. Did you love it? I have to say I loved it. Between all the excitement, we managed to shower, pack and get ready to hit the road again, but nobody moved until the second kiss on the balcony!
y English girlfriend Siobhan just sent me an email describing how the shop windows in her Gloucestershire village were decorated for the wedding.
She wrote:
"My favourite was the black Kitchenaid and a white Kitchenaid in the Cookshop, the black one had a top hat and the white one wore a veil!"
t’s a beautiful time of year, the whole island is salt air mixed with fragrance of the gazillion lilac bushes that live here. Traveling is fun, but there’s no place like home.
id you like the art at the top of this page… Click on it and you can print it out to use for a bookmark!
Missed you! Glad to be home…xoxo
P.S. Here’s a wedding dress I designed …
feeling free as a bird driving through the rolling green hills, clumps of bright orange California poppies in bloom in the "spring-green" grass on the side of the road. There were almond trees looking like pink clouds; wisteria covered gates, cows in the grass, and rows of twisted grapevines that made the hillsides look like Tuscany; oak trees and old barns dotted the landscape. On the other side of the highway, the sparkling Pacific Ocean, and the coastline that looks like the edge of a jig-saw puzzle-piece.
"Oh Joe, turn up the radio!" Windows rolling down. Ecstaticness taking over.
ere we go, get ready, click 
rom a Distance…
rom a distance….the ocean meets the stream, and the eagle takes to flight.
y heart swells, her words are my dream; I want to put on my Girl Scout uniform and salute the world.
nd speaking of eagles taking flight — 
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ust a little planet celebration, our beautiful world. Happy Earth Day!
Thank you Julie Gold for writing such a wonderful song. 
To Do List: 
Go to Farmer’s Market: "Buy Local, buy fresh."
rom a distance, we are looking so good! xoxo
