The Gingerbread House Cake for Spring

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Owl Cam

Presenting the world's most famous Barn Owl, Molly. She can be watched 24/7 on a live feed from San Marcos, California. There are three owlets and two more eggs to hatch. One is due today. 

Molly with the oldest owlet peeping out.

Checking the brood.

Cleaning her feet.

Tucking in the littles.

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One Perfect Waterlily

I took this photo in a temple garden in Kyoto, Japan.

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Wordless Wednesday

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Food Because Eating is Habit Forming

Some recent favorites at our house. The first is straight from the store: baked ricotta cheese with lemon and sugar. Very yummy and makes a great dessert.

Cobb salad, my current favorite, as made by my husband, who has taken over salad making around here and become quite the expert at it..

Sopa de Peña is my name for a Mexican style soup for which my friend Susan Peña gave me her basic recipe. It's the type of soup that can have just about anything added to it and it tastes good.

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Presents in the Mail

Paul made a post office run today and found two presents waiting for me in the box. (I call any package that arrives by mail a present because one never knows if it ever will arrive.) lThe first was a lovely little ACEO done by Tori Jones who is known as zephi on Etsy. You are out of luck on this one but she has other wonderful things at zephi.etsy.com. 

The other package contained a pair of charming heart earrings (my new favorites) made by Norma of BeachcombersCove.etsy.com. I won them in a raffle that she held for fans of her Beachcomber's page on FaceBook.

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