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May 2024

It will be mildly amusing to see what, if any, reaction results from posting this picture on my social media. Many people will quickly glance at it, then immediately comment without visiting the link here, which is about to explain that this pregnancy test is merely part of a pregnant pause prior to tomorrow’s big summer theme reveal. 

This test is the right color for the upcoming summer – all shades of pink welcome here. As for the humorous undertone, and the naughty acts that might merit such a test, they’re part of the decadent, winking, flirtatious fun that the summer theme will hopefully evoke. 

Summer demands a lighter touch.

And we deserve a lighter summer. 

Were it not for the bank of peachy-pink clouds hanging below it, the moon in these photos might have been lost in its translucent beauty here. But the clouds showed me the way, drawing my eyes upward to find the moon, which at the time these pictures were taken was very near its fullest stage, very much evidenced by the wackiness of last week. 

It was a magical view, fitting for this final day of May – the month of magic and enchantment, perhaps more than any other. Wistfully, I watch it move into the past tense, as June knocks at the front door. This is when I wish the days would slow. Instead, they bound headlong into the summer ahead, not wanting to slow or pause, not wanting to wait. 

Come along for the ride into a new summer season, as we reveal a new summer theme tomorrow…

Tea comes with all sorts of memories, more than I can recall in my ever-advancing age, and so I look to the search and recover process that involves me searching the archives for previous posts here. A number of tea memories come up when that journey begins – and it’s a trip to the past that I mostly don’t mind making, unlike many other looks-back. 

A happy tea memory with my Dad.

A cup of coziness with a song to match.

Tea for taking one’s time.

The tea of a tease.

Spilling the tea since 2003.

Tea dance.

The days of teabagging.

Tea time with Oscar.

The evocation of tea memories.

Tea slumber.

Like a cloud, this lead-in to summer is intended to be light and airy, the way we are shaping up this summer to be – at least the way I hope for it to be. Summer plans are best kept light and airy, especially in the world as it currently stands. And especially in my world after last summer. 

A light and airy song to match this post – a tune to travel the skies, carried by the clouds themselves. Fittingly by the brilliance that is Air. Another peek at the summer theme to come…

At the time of this writing, we’ve only been back a few hours from a gloriously-long weekend vacation in Maine – the Way Life Should Be – so this will be a placeholder for a much grander post somewhere down the line. I’m still in vacation mode, and after running an errand I came home to find my friend Chris making a surprise visit en route to Rochester, so we had dinner together, thus extending a happy vacation moment just when I thought it was over. Friends are the best balm for retiring to reality from an all-too-short vacation. 

These flowers are a happy reminder of our recent time in Maine, personifying the giddy cheer that Ogunquit has always brought to us. 

All things pink for those that have been following here – a hint at our summer theme, on this, the unofficial kick-off to the summer season. Rather than give anything more away, let’s step back in time with the weekly recap. Enjoy your day…

Who are the young men?

Valley of lilies.

Garden perfume by way of Korea.

Sometimes I suck.

Grieving is messy, and moody.

Like Godfather, like Godson.

Social media apathy, because we simply do not care.

Clouds of catmint.

Luxuriating.

Globular glory.

Live wires!

A maiden’s voyage.

Dazzlers of the Day included Megan Hilty, Jennifer Simard, Joven Calloway and Michelle Williams.