Il pleut des cordes

Rain today, which is better than cold. I hate the cold.

Nesting

A friend of mine told me he is going to Russia and that made me think of these matryoshka dolls that sit in my living room. The front set was given to Anna by Leah, the Russian woman who took care of her when she was little. (Thanks to Leah, Anna could understand Russian and say a few words by the time she was two years old.) The back set was mine as a little girl – a gift from Aunt Dot who traveled everywhere and had a magical room in her house, full of treasures from around the world.

Kiss

"The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile..."
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge