Mary E. Pearson's Blog, page 24

Tradition . . .

So last night, the kids are all here for dinner, and I ask them want they want for dinner on Easter Sunday.  Usually I always make a lamb and a ham.  But I thought I would forego the ham this year since we end up with so much left over that doesn't seem to get eaten and maybe make lamb and a beef roast (two of our kids don't eat lamb which my husband and I love so I have to have an alternate)  A nice beef tenderloin seemed like a good alternate, right?

Um, no.

Before I know what is happening, they

The flip side and book news . . .

I'm glad you all enjoyed the amazing picture yesterday as much as I did.  I did a little nosing around the web this morning and found out that this is the Blue Morpho Butterfly.  It's wings are five to eight inches across!  If you go to this site  you can see what the underside of its wings look like. Quite the transformation from that brilliant blue, no?

In book news . . .

The Miles Between is starting to be read!   (yikes!) Thank you professornana !

Also, apparently VOYA has released their Best S

A flutter . . .

I've acquired quite a few blue butterflies over the past year (including a beaded butterfly purse!) but today Little Willow aka  slayground sent me this picture and it took my breath away.  At first I thought it was some kind of sculpture but then I saw the fluttering out-of-focus butterfly in the foreground. 

They're real!?! 

But I do remember reading that in the Amazon forest (?) there were these brilliant blue butterflies.  Well, sheesh, it looks like they are having a butterfly convention! 

A

Kate Messner . . .

has officially declared  today as Say Something Nice day. 

She has also suggested we twitter-tag it:  #peoplesucceed 

Even though I twitter , I am not sure exactly what that means, but I am sure that you in-the-know will get it.

So now, a Say Something Nice blog--and tweet--from me to you:

1. I already mentioned that my sister takes great photos, and here is another one.  Her pictures always make me smile and that is no small thing.  It is a gift to give that to someone.

2.  Somehow I get by in the t

Saturday Smile . . .

My sister was at the Carlsbad Flower Fields yesterday with some of her photographer buds (practically right in my back yard--I would have fed y'all lunch!) and she took this shot.  She only took up photgraphy a few years ago and takes some pretty amazing pictures .

But this one just made me smile and reminded me, I need to get outside today!  And that is what I am going to do right now.  Thanks, sis.

What's cooking on Friday?

 Me.
 
Well, not me.

I am going to a cooking class tonight with my husband and some friends.  I've taken cooking classes before but never with my hubby--should be fun--and interesting. 

All I have had to eat today is yogurt and my stomach is rumbling and I keep thinking about what we are making tonight.  Here is the menu:

Beet Salad with Candied Walnuts
Asparagus Rissotto
Steak Diane
Champagne Zabaglione

A bit more than our usual Friday night pizza.  I really have no idea what Champagne Zabaglione is

Chats and covers . . .

I have been having such a great time over at Readergirlz this month.  Last week we had a live chat that was a whirlwind but so much fun too.  Lots of questions and conversations!  It was like going to a big family gathering where you haven't seen everyone in a long time, like Thanksgiving, and everyone is talking at once and you miss a conversation here or there because you are so busy talking. 

There were some really interesting, thought-provoking conversations spawned by the various questions

Saturday Six . . .

1. Spring!



2. Spring again!



3.  And more spring!

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4.  And the boys are enjoying spring too.  Brody, our indoor, wannabe lap dog poses . . .



6.  And Hunter, our "real" dog, is on high alert for all those pesky birds who are gobbling up bird seed and having the nerve to invade his territory . . .



I worked out on the patio today with the laptop, and his antics--chasing the birds all over the yard--finally made me put the laptop down and snap a few shots.  That is the birdfeeder right above his head tha

Around Blog Town . . .

Thank you all for the cheers and comments on my new cover yesterday. Glad you think it is "trippy." Me too. And in this case, that has the perfect double meaning.

Now, around blog town . . . .

Over at the Readergirlz blog learn about Operation Teen Book Drop  which is coming in April!

Also TOMORROW NIGHT, March 19th, at 6pm Pacific time/9ET . . .   I am chatting on their blog!  A live chat!  Please come!  They are testing out a new software so it might be a little crazy, but that's okay, because we'

Look what the UPS man . . .

brought just a few minutes ago!



Galleys for The Miles Between!

I never get numb to the excitement of each step. Now I'm really in the mood for a road trip.