{good} friday

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bluebonnets + the birthplace of tx + spring day

Drove down the road to Washington-on-the-Brazos yesterday. Needed to get out of town and soak in some of the splendor. Springtime in Texas ... yeah, it's pretty damn special.

{lemony, rosemary-ish, vanilla-y} scents of spring

Don't know what the weather is like everywhere else on this big blue marble, but here in College Station, TX we've dialed up some weather for the ages. Pure perfection. It's currently 70º with a cool breeze and not a cloud to be had. I had to throw open the windows and bring that gorgeous outside, indoors. While doing so I was reminded of a splendid idea I saw on Pinterest: lemon, rosemary, and vanilla spring fragrance. It's the ideal scent for a divine spring day ... smells good Good GOOD.

Ingredients (*no precise measurements ... just do whatever your heart desires)
Lemons (I used 2)
Rosemary (I snipped off 4)
Vanilla extract (I used 2 tsp.)
Water

Just fill a small stock pot 2/3-full with water, and toss-in some cut up some lemons, rosemary sprigs, and vanilla. Simmer on your stovetop all day, adding more water as the level dips. You can use the same mixture for about two days.

Happy Spring, y'all!

(I know ... my rosemary is in desperate need of pruning ... I haven't touched it since last fall, and it's looking rather anemic. But it still does the trick)

Zoe, making her annual springtime debut outside (it's become something of a rite of passage for those kittens o' mine [Jaxson was feeling camera shy]), joined me outside for some rosemary cuttin'.

twenty-nine

"A leap year (or intercalary or bissextile year) is a year containing one additional day (or, in the case of lunisolar calendars, a month) in order to keep the calendar year synchronized with the astronomical or seasonal year. Because seasons and astronomical events do not repeat in a whole number of days, a calendar that had the same number of days in each year would, over time, drift with respect to the event it was supposed to track. By occasionally inserting (or intercalating) an additional day or month into the year, the drift can be corrected. A year that is not a leap year is called a common year" (Wikipedia).