Portraits of Grandpa and Grandma, by my mother.

Spring is on and I am in it. Time is being spent differently these days, with sunny naps and long dinners on park benches with good friends, who have been hiding behind the Buffalo highways; there have been late night cocktails full of olives and ooohh-a lot of laughter over many silly subjects; ice tea tuesdays bathed in poems and scones; and some of us are wrapping our fingers in sparkling rings of happiness.

I have been breaking, watching movies with zombies and rings of fire; swimming in my new cherry red suit; stretching out my ITB and starting to run again. It is all lovely.

But most lovely has been the music, oh the new music I have been led towards, it is very contagious!

Listen!
Lily Allen (especially LDN, my song of the summer)
Listen!
Regina Spektor (Fidelity)
Listen!
The Sounds (Song with a Mission)
Listen!
Nelly Furtado (I can't find a maneater link but one on her new songs is up here!)