[A May weekend in 10 photos.]

1. & 4. Spent part of Saturday afternoon at a fun festival at the National Cathedral. Was dying to ride the carousel, but didn't have a child to accompany me. Failed to realize until later that my height would have allowed me to pose as someone else's child.
2. & 3. Two of about 53248 photos of us trying on ridiculous hats (shoutout to bff Lauren, who visited DC for the weekend!). Hats may or may not have inspired the idea to throw a tea party, coming soon to a living room near you.

5. Candles in the National Cathedral. Light one for me, won't you please?

6. Spotted: neighborhood church sign promoting #churchtweets. Well, okay, if I must...

7. Belated birthday prezzies from Lauren! Basically, if you could assemble a still life of Milan, this would be it. Magnolia cupcakes, Laduree macarons, New York photography, and a Star Wars moleskin...it's like she knows me or something. 

8. Go out. Meet pretty boys. Receive roses. Become twitterpated. Next day brunch. Still twitterpated. Weekend ends. Boys -> Iceland. Girls -> normal life. check check check
9. My Seis de Mayo dinner party. Because celebrating Cinco de Mayo on the 5th is so 1862.
10. Making Mexican wedding cookies. Celebrating Mexican-ness and subtly promoting marriage? Done and done, thank you very much.

[A truth universally acknowledged...]

[hello spring!]

I saw these blossoms outside my apartment building this week and had to capture them. Since then, they've bloomed even more! Is this my first cherry blossoms sighting? Not sure, but I have a feeling that between now and June, I'll be convinced that every pink flower I see is a cherry blossom. There are worse delusions.

[Spotted in Georgetown.]

Another delightful discovery! As roomie Rachel and I strolled through Georgetown after a wallet-emptying day of shopping, we spotted this adorable pink bike (even the tires! even the gears!) with pink flowers growing in its basket. Such a perfect idea--I'm definitely keeping this in mind in case I ever decide to embrace the concept of physical exertion.

[a thing or two.]

[Re: Steph.]

On Valentine's Day, my lovely former college roommate, fellow Smithsonian worker bee, and occasional sub-for-boyfriend Steph surprised me at my office with roses and chocolate, and made my little day. It's made all the difference in the world to have her living ten minutes away and working just down the street, available for spur of the moment cupcake runs, meltdowns, and other staples of our twenty-two year old lives.

Thanks, Estephania! So glad we were put together in this world again!

Happy Valentine's Month!

Valentine's Day is my FAVORITE holiday. Always. Boyfriend or no boyfriend (though there has basically always been a boyfriend, let's be honest...).

It allows me to be extra obsessed with my favorite color, red, and my favorite shape, heart.

I hope your February is perfect and lovely.

And that you receive some of these too.

Thank you for the surprise, you.

knock knock. who's there? orange. orange who? orange you happy to see me?

north end boston pumpkins.

surprise fall flowers from a friend.

i know i'm a bit late -- the last three weeks have been a blur, with crazy work deadlines, a happy sad weekend trip to boston, a little bad news, minimal sleepage (all of which was made slightly better when i came home one evening to a surprise bouquet of flowers waiting for me...thank you, sir) -- but happy october!