Fiddle Heads

When I was a wee little child (there I go again) my mom had almost an entire garden (thinking back I'd say she had no fewer than five distinct gardens in our yard) devoted to ferns.  The lady loves her some ferns.  And I became pretty familiar with the various stages of fern life.  I've always been a big fan of fiddle heads.  I just think they're neat, especially because if you pay enough attention you can actually see them unwinding and turning into actual fern leaves.  It's pretty amazing.

So when I caught a glance of this soon to be fern - that was a variety of fern I don't believe I'm familiar with (I don't recall ever seeing a fuzzy fern before) - I had to get a picture.

Lacy

I've been really in love with lace lately. I used to hate it. It's so itchy after all. But lately... I don't know. It just seems kind of romantic to me; very girly in a very good way.

One of the things I like about it is its sort of translucency. I like how it can either be just decoration or a pattern depending on how much of it shows and what you wear beneath it. And the way light goes through it is amazing. That's one thing I've always loved about lace. I remember my mom used to have lace curtains on a couple windows in our house and I loved the patterns that would get thrown across the floor from the lace.