SPRINGING AHEAD

SATURDAY
Beauty at the Natural Green Market

At Home

Supper and another episode
Season 9

"DOC MARTIN"
http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2018-03-08/doc-martin-will-end-after-two-more-series-martin-clunes-reveals/

~*~ SUNDAY
At 28 minutes after Midnight
I reset the Clock

"My answers are inadequate
To those demanding day and date
And ever set a tiny shock
Through strangers asking what's o'clock;
Whose days are spent in whittling rhyme-
What's time to her, or she to Time?"

-Dorothy Parker-

Making Plans for a Museum Visit
GRANT WOOD
(screen shot self portrait)

(from 'Bob and Sophies French Adventure')
"American Gothic, the picture of a stern old farming couple standing in front of their barn, has been seen by everyone.The painter exhibited the canvas in Chicago at the age of 39. At the age of 50 he was dead from pancreatic cancer. In his brief career he produced some memorable works and a few masterpieces. This 1935 canvas is called Death on the Ridge Road. The composition a sure sign that some human genius burns so brightly it simply can't last long. In this picture the encroaching darkness, the almost toy town joyfulness of the truck and the interplay of rain with the cross like telegraph poles are gloriously sombre. True American Gothic."
(screen shot)

  "He is thought by some to be America's greatest Arts and Crafts school painter. There is an exhibition at the Whitney in NY that runs 'til June. Here's the website with more of the works in the exhibition."
https://whitney.org/Exhibitions/GrantWood
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grant_Wood
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Whitney Museum of American Art 
FREE 
Fridays 7-9:30 pm

Constitutional Before Sleep
Around Gramercy Park
Many famous folks lived here and more recently, Jimmy Fallon who first bought two apartments for his Mother and himself. His mother died last November. He has since purchased three more units.

34 Gramercy Park
(look inside)
https://ny.curbed.com/2014/9/5/10050662/jimmy-fallon-now-owns-five-units-in-his-gramercy-building

side

 Entrance

***
then
LOUD CLANGING
Con Edison Sets Up For?
Third Avenue between 20/21st Streets

~*~

MONDAY
Short trip to the post office and a view of the Chrysler Building.

Nothing serious, simply ordinary chronic conditions acting up, so I am 'under the weather' before our third storm lands tonight and taking a day of rest and recuperation missing my weekly writing group.
In the mail today
 A Package I sent to Grace Forest was returned
Unclaimed!

for Grace update see
http://mscomfortzone.blogspot.com/2018/03/grace-and-mail-difficulty.html 
~*~


TUESDAY
Still laying low at home. The snow has not made much impact on my neighborhood but some icy conditions and wind are present with more snow possible. The news is depressing at best. New England is snowed in and I'm returning to the memory of a  storm years ago and the dear friends of my heart there.

~*~

A RED WEEK

(Calendar from Jenny S.)

SUNDAY
I've been waiting, under wraps, breathing, sleeping, letting go while still containing all that was, is and might be. I've been tweeking colors on photographs, leaning toward red for hearts, for love, for life---constructing this blog post for the week till Tuesday where Hallmark branded it's Valentine mark, though the historical Valentine was a Christian Martyr living under Roman rule (there are other interpretations of course), and the festival Lupercalia coincides. I've been unearthing memories, reviewing all the love my life has encountered and appreciating the eternal value of friendship...reminding myself what really matters.

Communicate

(heart forever stamps from Nayra A,)

Let Go

(Throwback to lost teeth)

Fly Free

(Avenue B and 6ths St Garden)

MONDAY

Nostalgia was dominant yet not distressing, only comforting. It's been rich this little life of mine so far. I find myself appreciating that. Adequate sleep and drift, specific medicinal teas and warm baths, certain silences and sanctuaries are my natural inclination and so I have inclined. I made potato leek soup, listened to music, read Carly Simon's "Boys in the Trees" quite entertaining memoir. I was blissfully snowed in.

Celebrate

 (Wendy D. makes yarn roses kike this)

Rest in Beauty Shamelessly

(Teddy graciously posed in rose petals for me)

TUESDAY

February is transitional, the shortest month. "Its birth flower is the violet (Viola) and the common primrose (Primula vulgaris). Its birthstone is the amethyst. It symbolizes piety, humility, spiritual wisdom, and sincerity. Its zodiac signs are Aquarius until February 19th and Pisces February 20th onward."  The Roman month Februarius was named after the Latin term februum, which means purification, via the purification ritual.

 https://youtu.be/VmECu4BKtDY

Disarm the Heart

 (Jude hill's heart under moon)

Give it Away

(Mo's woven heart)

 Share Freely

(a little pop up book of Pooh bear and Piglet)

~*~

A Gift to Make

https://youtu.be/Sk-vFT5ZZCc


Recipe Link
http://www.agardenforthehouse.com/2017/02/video-strawberry-souffle-gf/

Saint Valentine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Valentine  

Lupercalia 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lupercalia