Basket stuffers

Brer Rabbit molasses

Annie's bunny-shaped snacks

Celestial Seasonings' Gen Mai Cha

Brar Rabbit lid

Ankle Length is the New Mini Skirt

I am positively thrilled that long skirts are "in" this spring. Clothing pitched at my age group has for years been about skimpy skirts and those 1-inch-inseam "shorts". Now I can hide my legs and be fashionable, which is a strange new world. No longer will I feel like the odd, hippie/Bohemian type.  No longer will I be showing stark, dimpled trunks for spring break.
I love long skirts so much that I'm thinking of milking this trend to the maximum, for a long time.  Ankle-length red, white, and blue, anyone?

Cards by Taylor Swift

the other day i was at my local supermarket.  there was an excellent selection of bulbs, seeds, and other cool stuff in the seasonal section.  On my way out, cart loaded to the gills with garden-related stuff, i spotted these awesome cards by Taylor Swift for American Greetings.  They just look so fresh and spring-y!  Aren't they pretty!?  pictures by AmericanGreetings.

 

Hungry Month

March was called Hungry Month by various Indian tribes because it was the time when food supplies were the shortest.  While that may not be a reality for many of us in America nowadays, I still refer to it as hungry month.  This is the month that I am hungering for spring.  Sure there are some daffodils and a few violets, some spartan new leaves clinging desperately in refridgeration to their otherwise bare twigs, but I am craving the deep, leafy, real spring, where birds are building nests and baby animals are everywhere.  The kind of days where you can walk, barefoot, through soft grass and pick up ladybugs on your way to the apple trees, which have littered the earth with their spent petals.     That's what I'm waiting for, and it's snowing.

Book Review: Silent Spring

   READ IT!

Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
  We all know chemicals are bad for us - as well as the world around us. But how? And why?  What are the actual effects of pesticides and herbicides on our bodies? And what about the land, the animals - what happens to them?  This book explores what happens when we act before we think, and lays out the catastrophic consequences of working against natural laws instead of with them.  In this epic book, Rachel Carson makes a profound and detailed argument against chemicals and a compelling encouragement to the organic way of life. This book became one of the galvanizing works of the "Back to the Land" movement of the 60's and 70's, as well the anti-nuclear protests after the Vietnam War.
   Must reading for those that want to live long and well.  This will tell you exactly how to avoid toxins in food, water, and air.  Definitely read it!