Rain on succulents. Clusters of sparkly globes balancing on the leaves. Little worlds under each.
My Meyer lemon tree is budding for the first time. Since it's my first lemon tree it could just as well be the only lemon tree on earth. Getting ready to blossom. For the first time ever! EVER. Producing the world's first lemons! Who cares that the entire city is practically a grove of lemon trees? Psshaw!
Another panel. From part…
to whole. That's me on my steed galloping directly toward a lazy weekend. Or my next super-hero assignment. Either one.
Yes. Once, you really looked this doe-eyed and fresh from a milk bath. You glowed that brightly. Your eyes held that much mischief and merry making. It's true. It really happened.
Please tell me you'll go get the book Matilda and read it every single night to your dumbstruck child. Who will stare at you with equal parts confusion and hilarity. Who will howl uncontrollably when you read the part about Matilda supergluing Mr. Wormwood's hat to his mean head.
Mary Ann, I love your blog and your pages! I have nominated you for a Kreativ Blog award – just pick it up on my blog!
A lemon tree? I am so stinkin’ jealous I’m turning green here. I really think I’ve landed in the wrong state. The plant life you share your days worth is amazing.
I’ll be stopping at the bookstore on the way home today! I am so done with reading Diary of a Wimpy Kid and others of it’s ilk.
I’ve never heard of the book and have no child to read it to, so maybe I’ll just have to get it and read it to my inner child!
LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the whole. Steed, gorgeous new work and the adorable monkey. Loved the book and so did my daughter. So exciting that you can even grow a lemon. I’m thrilled the snow just melted off my lawn. Ha! Dreaming a lemony dream thinking of spring…great post. xo frannie
Thank you for reminding me. I have forgotten what it feels like to be fresh from a milkbath. Showers only these days. You are so inspiring. Thank you. *Sherri*
Matilda. What can I say? Roald Dahl is my favorite author. The world stopped for a minute in my world when I heard he died. I used to case the shelves of bookstores just to see if he had a new book out, back in the day when everyone didn’t have a home computer and the www. On one such occasion, I found Matilda, just out new in hardback. I was on a sick day with no voice at all. I purchased it, went straight home and read it cover to cover, only stopping to make dinner for my hubs and kids. I returned to work the next day, to my job then teaching 4th grade and read it to them all day long, except for lunch. Yes, they loved it, too. To heck with the voice issues. The movie doesn’t do the book justice. I have read every Dahl book for kids. Now, if we could just get him back…
Ok I am going to to Chambliss Book Mine tomorrow for a copy of Matilda. I know that my daughter read it years ago,(she is 29) but I have no idea what it is about. Perhaps our book club would be interested in reading it—then maybe I could finish a book in time before the meeting starts. I am too busy making remains of the day journals to read some old sappy old autobiography. Is Matilda an autobiography perhaps? :)))
Good grief! You scared the wits out of me! When I saw your reference to the book Matilda, I thought for a moment you meant the book Nurse Matilda. Since I think I’m the only one on the planet who’s read the Nurse Matilda books, you temporarily rendered me speechless. That is, until I looked up Matilda on Amazon. Close call. I’m very partial to James and the Giant Peach. Congratulations to you and your lemon. By the way, you look very impressive on that horse, very Napoleonic.
I must tell you that I’ve read Matilda to Cathie twice! It is bubbly hilarity of the best order! yay!
Congrats on your meyer lemons! There’s nothing quite like them in the winter, plucking them in January and passing them around and making loads of lemonade and lemon martinis and lemon curd and lemon sauce for fish and lemon squares Double Yay.
Your art is awesome. I also enjoy when you share about your kiddos in class. They look very sweet!
Glorious blog! I am now contemplating starting Remains of the Day, you are an inspiration, and if I didn’t live in great frozen north I’d want a Lemon Tree too!
yes, with the library budget cuts in Calif., we should all become guerrilla readers, finding a spot in a park to read aloud in a booming voice Matilda to any child in near proximity (love your blog.)
Beautiful Child!! You must, MUST make a stencil of him! (if you haven’t already 🙂
hee hee hee… i so love your blog and your words ms. monkey whisperer, first ever lemon tree grower!
off to get Matilda, I go. you see, I too do everything you tell me to do!
off to have myself a wonderfully lazy weekend, too. Happy lazy-ing.
Francesca
xoxo
Congrats on your worlds first lemon tree! Myers Lemons are good….hmmm make me a lemon morange pie! Who is this Matilda chick you speak of??? When I was a kid we just had a box and a stick to play with. And I had to walk 10 miles in snow up a hill to school(both ways)! You young whippersnappes! Geepers!
Ohhh, congrats on the world’s first lemon tree! The buds are beautiful! I’ve read Matilda. My 10 year old has as well and loved it. Dh and the 10 year old just finished James and the Giant Peach. They thought it was so funny. They’re reading Swiss Family Robinson now. I love that they’re reading such wonderful books!
Lemon tree, very pretty and the lemon flower is sweet…
Lucky you to be looking at lemon tree buds. The sky just dumped another load of snow on us – can’t find my (hardy) succulents… just kitty tracks crisscrossing in the snow.
Oh, the joys of introducing a wonderful book to children, it never grows old! Matilda was a favorite of all of us (hubby and two kids), as were almost all of Roald Dahl’s books.
Your use of words and photos make your blog pure joy to read. Who doesn’t love secret, little worlds right there…in front of us…waiting to be noticed. And then there are those internal worlds unfurled onto a panel. Sigh. Thanks. Life is good.
My daughter probably read that book 12 times! She loved it! (she is an insatiable reader, I love that about her!)
karen….
I watch the movie over and over. Does that count??? My daughters (now ages 19 & 23) are still entertained by Matilda and we always begin imitating the mom when someone mentions Guam…we are easily entertained…
Consciously or un, we absorb the language patterns, inflections and accents of those we love or spend time with. Your words reflect your love of poets’ voices or is it that theirs mirror your thoughts hence your attraction to them.
Doesn’t matter, we are gifted with your heart and vision once again.
thanks for the gift
Okay, I’ve ordered Matilda. You do know that I do everything you tell me, don’t you?