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Wishing everyone a great weekend and a good week ahead!

Look at the darling knitted mice ezhiuke  made for me! :)

The chef mouse and plate were a gift from my husband, a few years ago, on Valentine's Day. The recipe is spot-on, I think...;)

(A colleague who's an avid gardener brought me these; aren't they gorgeous?)

( 3 more pictures: )

(from the Russian Channel 1 TV New Year's Eve broadcast)

("Having flown around the earth in a Sputnik ship, I saw how beautiful our planet is. People, let us preserve and multiply this beauty, and not destroy it!" ~Yu. A. Gagarin)

Quite a few of these rather interesting trees, blooming pinkish-purple, in our area (and not only in ours, the video is from Greece, I believe)
As you can see in the close-up photo, the flowers are right on the branches...

"Loveliest of trees", by A.E. Houseman

"April Inventory", by W.D. Snodgrass

...Rather early this year...

...is located in Key West, Florida. This is their website: http://www.hemingwayhome.com/; there's even a kitty cam, check it out :)

The photos below are from our visit there in 2006, kavery had a post about Hemingway Home (http://kavery.livejournal.com/2344447.html) and she suggested I post the photos, as others might like to see them. So here you are:



The overall view of the house and garden. Hemingway lived there with his third wife, who was the editor of Vogue.
( Several more photos of the house, garden, and cats )