More Sunday Goodness

Another satisfying Sunday with a good mix of stuff: BIC time in the morning (and since I was there an hour and a half earlier than anyone else, I actually got some writing done--never as much as I hope I will, but some is better than none and I'm not complaining), house chores, a fun art project (my mom's friend Suzanne came over and did a body cast on my super preggo torso, so we'll have a matching pair--she did the one we have from Eli's pregnancy and it's a stunning piece of art, IMHO), close friends over for relaxed, yummy dinner. And as an icing-on-the-cupcake bonus, it was a gorgeous sunny day today. Driving back and forth to Petaluma was almost achingly beautiful in an idyllic, pastoral way: vivid emerald green grass from the recent rains on hills and roadsides contrasting nicely with the puffy masses of occasional bright yellow-blossomed acacia trees and the black and white fluffy winter coats of "happy cows" (they come from California, you know) grazing on it; the beginnings of Spring's cherry and magnolia blossoms coming to life in their delicate pinks and whites while still surrounded by Winter's dark intricate skeleton branches of oaks and liquidambers; a bright, open, robin's egg blue sky with merely decorative horizontal brush strokes of white clouds. God I love where I live, especially this secret "green season", that bonus time between Winter and Spring where everything stretches and begins to wake, slowly, slowly, but without the rush and bursting of Spring's full enthusiasm.

And now...ice cream. It doesn't get any better than this.