May

My! Much has happened since last I posted anything. School ended, I went home, and now I am back in New Haven in preparation for Slavs' trip to Croatia! REALLY EXCITED.

May is a beautiful month--certainly my favorite. The end of the school year is fun, though hectic. Trees come into flower. People congregate out-of-doors. The light becomes lovely.

My costume for an Earth Day parade (I'm an anteater!)

An immigration rally in which I took part on May 1st.

I came home on May 5th. Home was warm and WINDY! I spent a lot of time in my kitchen:

Smoothies--my favorite in the summertime.

Coconut-banana dessert pancakes.

And with the irises, which were not as numerous this year as last due to the cold spring weather--but delightful nonetheless.

It was my birthday on the 15th, so to celebrate I went to lunch at Pasqual's, one of my favorite restaurants in Santa Fe, with my mother and Graham. My mother snapped this priceless photo while we were there: me, my teeth, and Graham.

In other news, we got a puppy for Nana for Mother's Day. He is presumably a chipoodle, but he looks terrier-ish to me. He has come to be called El Nino (yes, like the weather pattern). He is ridiculously cute--I am not entirely sure if he is real, in fact.

It was lovely being home, as always. It is strange to be back here, in many ways. I've never been in New Haven when school wasn't happening. It was also strange to leave home after ostensibly settling in for the summer. But I'm looking at this as a vacation, which is what it is, really--Slavs are taking a tour to Croatia for 2 weeks, and we leave on Thursday--I am very much looking forward to it. Meanwhile, the madness of Graduation weekend...!