the bride wore cowboy boots.  the ceremony was short and made me cry.  we ate brisket and drank homemade margaritas.  we danced redfaced in the hot wind on the veranda.  they smashed a scorpion on the dancefloor right in front of my bare feet, then laughed and called me a yankee when i squealed and ran for my shoes.  yay texas.

(three points ranch in the texas hill country)

i spent most of yesterday in the sky.  

flew home from texas after a wedding in the hill country and a few extra days exploring austin.  i saw several scorpions, one soon-dead rattlesnake, about seventy breakfast tacos, and a particularly lovely bride.  photos to come.  

minneapolis on film.  

postcards from the city.

a little bit of uptown

and the sculpture garden

and lake of the isles

and the mayday parade

it's the most wonderful time of the year!

dinner at sea salt in minnehaha park

strolling the downtown farmers' market

dandelion kitchen foodcart deliciousness 

from our dreary wisconsin weekend: i cozied up in the cabin and got lost in the last two little house on the prairie books, and now i wish there were about twenty more of them.  and there was a hotdog roast in the backyard, some trivial pursuit by the wood stove, a trip to the caddie woodlawn house, a lot of napping, and a little bit of a dive-bar hop.  now i've got pioneers and farmer boys and merle haggard on the brain...

happy mayday folks!
(and happy birthday pops!)

april 19th: leaving a wintery copper mountain
april 20th: waking up to a very green minneapolis

these are the last of my photos from utah. on the drive home i stopped on the utah/colorado border to visit dinosaur national monument. i started off on a little stroll to stretch my legs and ended up hiking for almost two hours because it was so beautiful and so hot and so unlike home.

tomorrow is my last day in colorado. i spent today skiing at arapahoe basin with friends from the restaurant, getting in a few last turns before handing my skis off to a friend to store for the summer. now i'm packing my life into rubbermaids and defrosting my mini fridge. i secretly love packing, and after four years of vagabonding, i've gotten pretty good at fitting everything into my mini car. crank the "pretty lights" and getterdone.

on friday i drove down the mountain towards Utah and found summer. there were green buds and flowering trees and a few forsythia bushes along the way that made me should out loud. in Park City i bought armloads of easter goodies, and we drank wine and cooked food and decorated eggs and watched chick flicks and nibbled on cadbury cream eggs and sunbathed and drank schooners at O'Shucks and strolled in the woods and went out for sushi.

these are from our easter brunch at the Road Island Diner in very rural utah. i ordered a meatloaf sandwich and a hot fudge shake, and it was exactly right.

today is closing day in copper mountain, and after a completely snowless spring, today it's dumping snow. there is some serious partying in my future. and tomorrow begins my seasonal unemployment. no work until June. here goes...

on monarch mountain yesterday.

we made fast friends with the mountain staff, with our fannypack speaker system and our plethora of delicious beverages. the snow is soft, and the sun is warm, and i am finally learning to ski backwards! it's a damn shame spring does't last forever.