What's it been, nearly a month?

That sounds about right. Here's a picture of my new hair. I like it. Don't love my face, but whatever.

So, it's been awhile. The reason being that my little laptop is being a bit of a dink, and although I've been taking plenty of photos, I haven't been able to get them from the SD card onto the computer. And am too lazy to go into the other room and use the desktop (which is, really, my husband's domain).
Luckily he isn't too lazy to help me out and the other day put a bunch of pictures onto Picnik for me. Which I now can put on here. And you can look at them, if you're interested. Which you might not be.

I went out in the garden over the weekend. Remember my previous post with a picture of a sunflower? These are the remains of my sunflower patch:

(as always, click to embiggen).

Yeah, I left them out all winter, poor darlings, to be buried in snow and to feed the birds. I ruthlessly tore them down after taking these pictures, though. Time to get ready for a new planting season.

I am just really excited that summer seems to be on its way. Of course we had snow in May last year so I might be wrong, but I'm just holding on tightly to the fact that we had sun today. 

 This is an older photo, from August of 2008.

I tried making it "new" by doing this to it: 

Okay, back to basking in my backyard.


(edit 9:45 pm - I just discovered this in my drafts... it was supposed to post this morning. Oh well. In case you're wondering, there was basking. Oh yes, yes there was).

One of my students origami'd me this flower. He's the sweetest guy. "Madame, I just invented this for you!"
Tiny Happy Turtle loves the flower, too. It's just his size.

Sometimes I give an assignment and I give two weeks to get it done, with clear instructions, and all my expectations laid out... and I receive something back that looks like this (that is a random search I did for "really bad homework", it's not an actual assignment that anyone I have ever taught has handed in - close, but not quite).  

Then there are days when you can tell they put so much effort into their work, and I am extremely proud of them.  Today is one of those days.

Radio Gaga

I have been trying to photograph the black and purple bruise that is currently residing on my knuckles (I have no idea what I did - I do tend to talk with my hands so it's likely that I smacked it somewhere in my travels) but they all just came out blurry. 

I'm sure you're relieved that instead, I am posting this overly Picnik'd photo of our stereo system. CD, radio, LP, baby. That's how we roll.

At some point in the very near future, scraping the car windows will no longer be a part of my daily routine.  That's what I think, anyway.