Sunday sweet as Tupelo honey

Yay! Posting again after a long months of nothing. I got out of the habit of it for a while because it was just too depressing to write about anything cheerful, and I refuse to add to the gloom.  But — spring is coming! And today was just one of those beautiful Sundays to share.

Skinny rowhouses

Colorful accessories

Tupelo honey

used books

Sunday woke up bright and sunny and warm. (Well it started a chilly 40-something degrees but warmed to a nice 64 degrees as the day wore on. A friend and I went to Eastern Market, had breakfast at the Marvelous Market deli and went flea shopping, my favorite thing. I love going to the market at the very beginning of spring when the vendors bring out their flowers in a profusion of color. Though today it was still to early I guess, and we didn’t see a whole lot of flowers, but droves of people were out with dogs and kids in tow.  I bought three cheapie colorful scarves, vivid pinks and reds and greens (fake pashminas really, at 6.50 cents each but who cares? My sister has the real things at over a hundred dollars each, ick). I also got a couple of used books, Alan Lightman’s The Diagnosis and Joan Didion’s A Year of Magical Thinking. ( I love Alan Lightman, remember Einstein’s Dreams? And I’ve been meaning to read Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking since it came out. It reminds of C.S. Lewis’ A Grief Observed, an almost clinical, dispassionate documentation of devastating personal tragedy and grief.)

cloth birdies

I also got a jar of Tupelo honey, which tasted light and delicious as we licked it off the popsicle stick, and according to the seller, is one of the rarest of honeys because it’s produced from the tupelo gum tree’s flowers which only bloom four months out of the year (colonies must be stripped just as the flowers start to bloom, poor bees.) Great things, but really I bought it because of well, Van Morrison She’s as sweet as Tupelo honey, she’s an angel of the first degree…that song gets to me everytime

Afterwards drove to Ikea where I got a graphic black and white rug for our front door, My Organic Market for ingredients to make a new batch of vegan chocolate chip cookies (I’ll share the recipe this week!) and Mighty Healthy Pet for more of my cat Zeus’s Orijen food and oat grass.

best take your bike out for a ride day

I’m so excited to have more of these bright sunny days very soon!

Poem-A-Post

Sunday Morning Walk, Clive James

…Because the light, though Croesus-rich,
Is kiss-soft…

…Is it any wonder
That I never left you?
Remember this day,
It’s already melting.