flowers

"Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they
are sunshine, food, and medicine to the soul."
-- Luther Burbank, American naturalist and plant breeder

"Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers
-- and never succeeding."
-- Marc Chagall, Russian-French painter and graphic artist

"Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out-values
all the utilities of the world."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, American philosopher, poet, essayist

"I am following Nature without being able to grasp her... I
perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers."
-- Claude Monet, French artist

Go to Metro and have the almond cake

Well. What a change, a peachy day! Lovely weather, good food, amusing conversation, and good luck. Ha! Take that Twilight Zone.

We've been approved for the apartment, a huge relief. I think I will start cleaning and packing certain things this weekend. One more month. Also, the post office finally found my certified letter they lost, and I picked it up this morning. Exactly 31 days after I mailed it. Gracious. Damn post office. I'm nervous to mail anything.

I ate the most delicious almond cake this afternoon in Metro. Oh, full of almond slices and dusted with powdered sugar, it was fabulous. Mmm, a perfect treat with my coffee. I was sorely tempted by the chocolate hazelnut biscotti. Geoff and Deb are coming by for dinner tonight.

So many sirens today. I hear them in every class, and twice while at Metro. What is this? It just makes me feel strange. Since I read the Novak book I have been paying more attention to the strangeness of American daily life. Now I think I will run out into the last of the daylight....