I have the very good fortune to live near a very cool part of St. Louis, which I rather take for granted. Still it is lovely to be able to pop out for a cup of coffee or dinner or a movie or just a walk. These pictures aren’t fantastic, but I am a sucker for a tree with Christmas lights, and Tanya was kind enough to loan me her digital camera.
   
   
Your blog is splendiferous! I really enjoyed your photos! Oh…so you know…I’m not sure what food we’re bringing to your shindig, but I’ll try to bring something to off set the spice…On PBS I learned that some people like to eat dirt…so that’s an option.
Thanks, Heidi. Dirt’s fine as long as it’s the sort the moles dug up for the tree people of Narnia:
When Lucy saw Clodsley Shovel and his moles scuffling up the turf in various places (which Bacchus had pointed out to them) and realized that the trees were going to eat earth it gave her rather a shudder. But when she saw the earths that were actually brought to them she felt quite different. They began with a rich brown loam that looked almost exactly like choclolate; so like chocolate, in fact, that Edmund tried a piece of it, but he did not find it at all nice. When the rich loam had taken the edge off their hunger, the trees turned to an earth of the kind you see in Somerset, which is almost pink. They said it was lighter and sweeter. At the cheese stage they had a chalky soil, and then went on to delicate confections of the finest gravels powdered with choice silver sand. They drank very little wine, and it made the Hollies very talkative: for the most part they quenched their thirst with deep drafts of mingled dew and rain, flavored with forest flowers and the airy taste of the thinnnest clouds.
Makes one want to be a tree…
It occurs to me this post could also have been titled “Three views of an SUV.”
Oh My Land! I just laughed so loud my boss gave a glare!
Heidi
I love pictures of SUV’s. 🙂 Nice pics. I like your blog banner too! Thanks for making the blog banner for me.
Thanks again for a wonderful gathering! Yummy food…wonderful henna…wonderful photos…wonderful chats!