the love hypothesis - ali hazelwood (2021)

chick lit featuring chick (and dude) with brains wit and career plans beyond the kitchen bookshop or office. after a lifetime diet of mills & boons debbie macomber and barbara cartland this is a welcome change indeed. that she writes quite sharply helps too. easy read for when you are tired of the journals.

morning walk

sand in my sock.

the modern twist to the princess and the pea.

and the update to the sand in my shoe. considerably harder to remediate too.

surprise!

complimentary of nespresso, a box of 6 different coffees all packed into identikit capsules. all i can say is, thank you and good grief.

night into day

 

and there was evening, and there was morning, another day. quite breathtaking.

and the renovations plod on.

something stirs when we meet this tree at the gardens and i think of pixies and elves and gnomes who live in the undergrowth and each root compartment becomes a magical room to live in or a workshop to tool in, on cool autumn evenings. thus are fairy stories born i think.

portrait (of reluctance)

here is E when he does not want to walk.

clearly a dog who knows what he does not want.

national bird

the neighborhood parks are a-wash with 'em.