Tuesday

Here we go this morning - kids off to school, me to work with the pooch. Sonnet in Milano meeting with fashionistos in anticipation of her exhibition on Italian fashion, circa 2014.

Somehow it's mid-May giving us a 5:19AM sunrise and 15-hour day (January: eight-hours).  Not that the extra daylight matters much in April or for the early May bank-holiday w/e : record rainfalls, dude, and blustery winds.  Despite the cold and clammy, spring a tough time to self-motivate.  I watch my tadpoles, now pollywogs, grow up and set free - free! - in the pond; my tomatoes look for the summer. Other projects on the hop: War & Peace (never-ending), photography (must find more time), this blog and the usual stuff : family, work, kids. The occasional walk with Sonnet keeping it all real.

"The time for fear has come for those who betrayed this homeland. We are coming."
--Nikos Michaloliakos, neo-Nazi leader of Greece's Golden Dawn party, which won 21 seats in parliament  (8.5% of the vote) on May 6