spring buds and spring cleaning

just a day or two ago i remember writing that the buds hadn't poked their heads out of the ground yet along the sidewalk garden pits, or in our courtyard. either i wasn't very observant, or they moved really fast, because today the buds are suddenly here . . moving . . growing . . being very green and springy.

it was time to do some apartment straightening and cleaning too.

chanda re-organized a book project she has. the books were found in a basket that was underneath the pillows above. the basket was emptied and a yarn basket was placed beneath them instead. apartment straightening is often like squeezing toothpaste around in a tube . .

i think these books have something to do with a hogwarts school . .

morgana is taking a cleaning break and reading from tolkien in this picture. she looked up what sam had to say about gandalf's fireworks in the fellowship: 

the finest rockets ever seen:

they burst in stars of blue and green,

or after thunder golden showers,

came falling like a rain of flowers.

while morgana was reading, hermione was evaluating her new perch. we cleared it of all nature table figures and silks, and placed the globe next to her instead. now she can contemplate possible travel expeditions.

the nature table was moved to the piano . . 

along with several photographs  of the girls that were finally framed. i'll have to post those another day.

cleaning the table for work . . i've been in a tablecloth phase these days.

working on linney latin . .

working on the pythagorean circle . .

and pentacle: 

then morgana went off to a guitar lesson followed by a ballet class, and chanda helped with laundry before going to her ballet class.

korrina babysat all day before coming home and making double chocolate chip cookies. this is a pic of chanda at a cafe on west 10th street across from her ballet school called ciao for now. she had a mini vegetable quiche because neither one of us manged to get a sandwich made. of course the larder is rather bare these days. peanut butter and jelly was the only possibility and i think the quiche was more enticing.