spent in malibu…
my favorite thing was not the view, which was spectacular.
it was not the food, which was fabulous.
it was not the company which was charming.
it was finding out that seagulls have toenails. and pale pink feet. pretty much, what i thought about the entire time.
A belated Happy BIrthday! I’m with you about the seagulls. Toenails!! And that one foot missing some of the flesh. Hope it didn’t hurt too much!
Charming company, indeed!
My goodness, those are fabulous seagull pictures!! I love the one where he is looking right at you, as if to say, “48 years old? how can that be??”!
But just so you know, herring gulls (like the one in your photos) have pink feet but not all seagulls do. For example, the California gull, which you might also see in your neighbourhood, has greenish-yellow feet. 🙂
Belated Happy Birthday!! I think it’s fabulous that you were captivated by Seagull toenails!! I love the way your mind works!
happy, happy birdegg (that’s how we say happy birthday in our family)!!! love the photos and so happy to hear you enjoying and celebrating yourself (and the seagulls) 🙂
Shhhhh…..that’s the sound of the World getting just a little cooler every time that you post. I shall celebrate your birth by telling people that you, Mary Ann Moss, have a great eye for detail among your other endless talents. Raising the glass to you Darling, today and EVERY day…….*clink*……
happy belated!!
x..x
Happy Birthday Mary Ann and Happy New Year also. Looking forward to your blogging this year. All the best from London.
Happy birthday Mary Ann and I wish you also a happy and creative new year! Goga
The happiest of years for you ahead! Thanks for all the inspiration you provide on this blog :~D. Mary
Happy Day, spectacular year. I love that restaurant, good choice.
Moss Cottage, Happy 48 Birthday ,its one of the best yet as you try out your new numbers in life.and so youll be on a new path knowing more now then you have before, and being on a new road to explore. since you love road trips and adventure this will be an adventure you will have to start a new book for:) I for one can not wait to here about this new path in your life and all the pages youll have to turn.I can not think of a better number to be at:)
Happy Happy B daymy dear friend,Linda
Happy Birthday enchanted one. I will follow you anywhere.
Have a wonderful 48th year — you will, i know! Bonne Anniversaire.
I knew there was something I forgot this weekend! Hope I am not too late to wish you Happy Happy! Wish for you new discoveries, blue skies, pink roses and laughter all your days:)
Happy Birthday – may you have a year blessed with sunshine and turquoise stardust 🙂
Many happy returns of the day! (not to be confused with remains of the day;-) Hope the rest of your 48th year is full of interesting revelations and joyous discoveries.
Happy birthday from me too, Mary Ann. I so enjoy your blogging and hope you will keep doing it till you’re two times 48!
Happy birthday, young woman. You rock!
Did you ever read Sandra Boynton books. There were some of my favorites when my DD’s were babies. Thus, the following. If I could draw I would here but I can’t so picture this while singing along to the tune of the basic happy bday song.
Hippo birdy two ewes
Hippp birdy two ewes
Hippo Birdy deer Mary Ann………
(big finish here)
Hippo Birdy two ewesssssssssssss
I beat ya by one day sweetie 1/8 and a steady 52 years in front of me.
I LOVED the seagull pics….the views and the salty air that made it’s way all the way to a chilly, MN.
Thanks for making me smile for your birthday. I am certain it was a happy one since you find such delight in everything that you do.
I have a list of 60 things. Yikes!
Happy birthday and happy new year!
Happy Birthday.
I’ve almost watched all the videos for ROD. I want to watch them all one time before I start the making…but I have started to fiddle with some fun little inserts like days of the week/months of the year…and searching for nifty free fonts. Thanks again for all the work you put into the videos, they’re great. AND thanks for offering the class. I’ll show and tell sooner than later.
Hope your celebration is fabulous.
You are too funny…pink feet with toenails. Happy 48 and feeling great!!!
Happy birthday Mary Ann! It’s all in the details.
Mary Ann! A very happy birthday, and many, many more! Let’s all have a big slab of chocolate cake with chocolate icing in your honor, and hoist a glass of champagne. And let’s invite all the seagulls who want to come because we love seagulls and their pink feet (just not flying over our chocolate cake). Sound of cork popping……
Happy Birthday, Mary Ann! (today’s the first day of my 56th year.) 😉 i grew up surrounded by seagulls and never knew they had toenails. 🙂
happy, happy birthday, mary ann! i just had one too!
Happy Day Happy Birthday and Happy Year Mary Ann! Wishing you the best!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY. And I see the seagulls are rocking a goth vibe on the black toenails. Love it.
2 to go then the half century!
Happy birthday Mary Ann…you’ve added a bright spot to my 2010 and now 2011. I hope you have a perfect year!
Happy birthday and heres to 48 more
happy happy day!!
nope paulette, it was moonshadows…:-)
Happy Birthday … may you learn fascinating things each day of this year!
HBTY!!! and here’s to a year full of fulfilled wishes, more beautiful views, good company, ideas flashing, and color everywhere you look! you da bomb baby…
Happy Birthday mary Ann!!
Happy Birthday!
Happy BD my friend. I am so glad you celebrated YOUR way with the gulls, and a few friends. Thanx for sharing your special day with us.
Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you, Happy birthday dear Mary Nnnnnnnn, Happy Birthday to you!!! That’s my virtual song to you, on your special day 🙂
Happy Birthday! 48 is good vintage, with hints of stiff joint and a whiff tannined hair, but still a beaujolais, so enjoy and celebrate it every day.
Happy Birthday – wishing your 48th to be even more fabulous than your 47th!
You sure celebrated in a special way.
Hello Mary Ann,
I see you were at Gladstones for lunch today.
I have my fingers crossed that you took the 5 minute drive up to enjoy the old Getty Museum (aka Getty Villa )
There is an amazing educational center dedicated to the study of the arts and cultures of ancient Greece, Rome, and Etruria
The Villa houses approximately 44,000 works of art from the Museum’s extensive collection of Greek, Roman, and Etruscan antiquities, of which over 1,200 are on view.
The current exhibition explores representations of Mexican archaeological objects and sites made from the Colonial era to the present.
Admission is free and groups are welcome, so if you didn’t make it today I think you should celebrate with all those little creatives you teach and make it an artist date !
Happy Birthday !
Happy birthday. What a great place to celebrate.
LOL You are so awesome, Mary Ann!
Happy Birthday!!!!!!
-Briana
Happy Birthday Mary Ann (and Elvis)…looks like you had a marvey first day of 48. Enjoy, enjoy, enjoy!
Happy Birthday, Mary Ann! Welcome to 48. I, as the hostess of 48, being as I was 48 ahead of you, would like to say, Hey! Good for you! M’wuh!