...cinnamon crisps

or at least, that's what I call them. 

Place one 8" flour tortilla on a cookie sheet.  Spread upon it about 1 T. of butter, then clump another 1/2 T. on for good measure (make sure there are a few mounds).  Dust thoroughly with cinnamon-sugar (think dust storm).  Broil in oven on high until butter and sugar have caramelized (some portions of the tortilla may be slightly slightly burned)--about 3-5 minutes, but keep an eye on it!  Remove delicacy from oven and leave to cool (and butter-sugar to harden slightly) about 3-5 minutes.  Enjoy/Savor/Devour/Inhale/Etc..

No picture due to the short lifespan of above-described deliciousness.  

...rain, snow, and hail in april

are not beautiful.  nor do i love them. 

...turning over

rich, dark earth to find the worms have been enjoying the compost we've been putting out for them. 

...the smell of sunshine

is coconut sunscreen and wet hair evenings.  newly pinkened skin radiates the heat of the day into the cool of the evening.  wet bathing suits hang in the shower. 

...FLASH!

Gordon, that is.  And Rock Men (can you spot them in the picture below?).  And Sci-fi Friday night public television.  From this evening's episode, "Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe":

Above: Prince Barin 's aide Roka (Lee Powell), Flash Gordon (Buster Crabbe), Dale Arden (Carol Hughes), and Dr. Zarkov (Frank Shannon), flanked by the Rock Men, prepare for action in FLASH GORDON CONQUERS THE UNIVERSE (Universal, 1940), the last of the Flash Gordon serials. 

..."Keeping Things Whole"

In a field
I am the absence
of field.
This is
always the case.
Wherever I am
I am what is missing.

When I walk
I part the air
and always
the air moves in
to fill the spaces
where my body's been.

We all have reasons
for moving.
I move
to keep things whole.

--Mark Strand

...mom's cranberry tea

on a cold spring morning, sipping from the cup grandmother gave me when i was a little girl.  the sweet, citrus-y warmth gently shoos away the gloomy-day blues.

...twirly

dancing in the kitchen with giggles and sways and stomps and claps.  waiting for dinner to cook and daddy to come home.

...blue

Ross Bleckner "Falling Bird II"

"[As] we readily follow an agreeable object that flies from us, so we love to contemplate blue, not because it advances to us, but because it draws us after it." --Goethe

...witchy harlibut

...carnivorously, furtively

gnawing on a chocolate bunny in the dark kitchen, hunched over.  bite after bite.  when i really just wanted a nibble. 

...a walk from the park

with a tall man to hold my hand and a small boy to scooter alongside us and an almost-toddler to ride on his daddy's shoulders.  We stick to the sunny side of the street, wood chips hitch-hiking in the cuffs of my jeans. 

...finding

a purple plastic child's exercise bike at the local mega-thrift store.  Like a toy kitchen--except an exercise bike.

...found art