Brontë Things

BRONTË SEASON IS A THING!

Daniel Lavery posted about the Brontës on May 6, just as I was getting cooking with Charlotte’s Shirley.

I started this audiobook on a long drive to a different org’s Community Engagement Summit, while the wisteria bloomed feverishly. It peeked out of highway dividers, and hung down telephone cables. Spending the day at a campgrounds in Hunterdon County was lovely indeed:

This is such a pretty time of the year, and I cherish my CSA share starting again:

Some other parts of the season feel familiar and right: We hosted our now-annual Mother’s Day Tea; we own some gorgeous tea sets so it is a joy to use them with guests.

Rita’s!!!

There was one day so beautiful I couldn’t stay away–I had to go to the ocean.

Of course, no two springs can be exactly the same. (And it’s not just that I read a different Brontë book every spring.)

New, but planned for a long time: I made progress on a volunteer goal and went out in a canteen van to hand out hot meals in Camden, NJ:

Truly honored to be invited to table at a local library’s first EVER Comics Fest:

New/improved at home: We were gifted hundreds of bulbs as a wedding gift, and they are blooming!

This was a fun date:

I feel like I discover something new every time I go to Philly:

I had a late-April day full of new or different things: Introduced a friend to oat milk rose lattes and truffle fries, then wandered the Zimmerli Art Museum.

George Segal:

The photography of Michelle V. Agins was fantastic:

Textiles everywhere! This is The Song by Bonnie Lucas.

Brooklyn 2010 by Joan Snyder.

This is the one that has stuck with me: Two Gardens by Paul Gardère.

This work insists we ask about who is doing the labor / tending the grounds in the most scenic landscape scenes. Even seemingly serene vistas likely required the blood, sweat, and tears of someone — the someone probably isn’t an artist you can name.