Look Who's turning 18!!
Well, according to the government my baby is not a baby anymore. But who listens to the government anyways? Right?
Happy Birthday Rainiero, you've made the life of everyone who surrounds you happier, lighter and more interesting for the last eighteeng years.
You're my favorite person in the world and I am today as proud of you as I was that first day of Pre-K when this picture was taken 14 years ago!
Heres to many Splendid Suns!!!

Your sister who Adores you and misses you every day.....

All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.


by J. R. R. Tolkien
Image via Lelove

If there is one "Green" thing I dream about constantly is to have my own vegetable patch. How cute (and practical) are these Hermes gardening tools? Love!
And Happy Earth Day!!!!

A Toast to Rita!
Neurologist Rita Levi Montalcini will be 100 years old on April 22. The Italian scientist received the Nobel prize for medicine with Stanley Cohen of the United States, in 1986, for discoveries of mechanisms that regulate the growth of cells and organs.

Miss Levi recounted how the anti-Jewish laws of the 1930s under Benito Mussolini's Fascist regime forced her to quit university and do research in an improvised laboratory in her bedroom at home.

"Above all, don't fear difficult moments," she said. "The best comes from them."

"For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone;
The flowers appear on the earth;
the time of singing has come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land.
The fig tree puts forth its figs, and the vines are in blossom;
they give forth fragrance." Ct 2 11-13

'Hoping Everybody had a Great Easter!!!
Image Via Karla's Closet.

I blogged about Linda and Harriett before, but they deserve one more post. This particular wedding invitation is my favorite piece of stationary in the whole world.
www.lindaandharriett.com

I would love a blow up picture like this one, in the opposite wall of my shower. It just makes me smile! Superstar!!

From Dean Kaufman, Via the lovely Roseland Greene.