Lis's Project 365

While answering emails and doing some program planning, I had Ted Kennedy’s funeral playing on the computer as well. I sat there and got all teary eyed, although I’m not quite sure why this is affecting me so much. 

It was actually a very lovely service (except for the heavily Catholic bits but he was a Kennedy after all), but makes me wonder why we always wait until someone dies to say all the nice things.

a pair of gloves (with “science” on them so you know they’re mine) that are also labeled “iguana proof” although they are also useful for handling a cranky snake.

I’m guessing most other people don’t have this sort of thing in their office. Just a guess.

This is the sort of thing I might not have noticed before beginning this project.
When I left work, I saw that the sky in one direction was dark, cloudy and threatening; the sky in the opposite direction was blue and sunny. I was thinking “man, I wish there was a way to get both skies in the same photo.”  It turns out…there is.

Today at work we celebrated the 50th anniversary of the sister city relationship between Kyoto (Japan) and Boston. The mayor of Kyoto was there, as well as other notable types. Kyoto gave us some wonderful gifts, including a number of child-sized kimono.

The kids all looked really cute, but of course they hadn’t changed their shoes. I I just loved the juxtaposition of the traditional Japanese outfit with the oh-so American footwear.

I have had so much blood drawn in the last few years, it’s not even funny. But here we go again.

We washed a bunch of our little rugs today, including this one that goes in the downstairs bath. The power washer is actually pretty fun to use, and does a scary good job of loosing a bunch of dirt and crap you didn’t even  know was there.

I left work today and turned onto Sleeper St to see, much to my surprise, a whole line of horses and buggies lined up against the back of the museum. I actually pulled over and got out of the car to photograph them, they were such a pretty, albeit unexpected, sight.

We specially ordered a bag of carrots with our Boston Organics order today. I never knew carrots came in red and yellow too(and yes, they are carrots, not parsnips)! They added lovely color to our salads tonight.

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BONUS PICTURE:
it’s the word

So it was a warm and sunny but somewhat muggy afternoon and then all of a sudden….BOOM! It was like someone unzipped the sky and all this rain just dumped out all at once.

An hour later, it was dry and sunny again.