Happy birthday, America! Have some firework flowers! Lantana. They are everywhere. I mostly see yellow ones around town, but the ones in our front planter are red and orange. I love the variegation. Well chosen, previous owners. Our plant desperately needs to be trimmed back. Maybe when it’s not eleventy billion degrees outside. Some links for your weekend… This image… View Post
In case you need a refresher, here’s what the kitchen looked like when we started. Here’s what it looks like today. It’s still a hot mess–these pictures are probably only exciting to me–but you can see some definite progress. When David tore out the dropped ceiling the room felt much bigger already. Even with insulation raining down on us, we… View Post
This is just to say that I will not be wearing pants for the month of July in its entirety. Don’t worry about running into me at Target in my skivvies; I’ll be in skirts and dresses at least till August. It’s just too hot for extra fabric on my lower half and I want to get in the habit… View Post
Amelia: 161 weeks and Margot: 63 weeks. We got back from a family reunion on Saturday and oh man. It is hooooooot here. How do I always forget just how bad it is every year? Anyway, here are two of my favorite iPhone shots of the girls from their ranch adventures. Mila found some chicken eggs in the barn and… View Post
This peachy hibiscus lives in our front yard. When we moved in we had a pink one as well, but it died of frostbite the first winter we were here. We haven’t treated this one any differently than we did the pink one, but it is thriving the way pinky never did. I think it’s because it is right up… View Post