May 26 - May 31

Little buds on my peace lily plant at work.

Sibling picture time! At Water Street, in Lewiston NY.

Annual summer kickoff party at Richie's friends' house. Complete with deathly steep cliff next to the river below. And despite the fact that everyone is wearing the same thing as the previous photo, I swear this was taken on a different day.

I tried getting some people shots on Sunday, but honestly, trying get 45 people into one photo is too much work. So instead here's a pic of the cake!

New annual pit-stop: Mister Shake, outside of Cooperstown, NY.

Free Mets tickets! Pretty good seats too.

May 21 - May 25

The apocalypse turned out to be a pretty nice day. We accidentally got day drunk, and it all began with burgers at Zack's.

Oh Rudy, you're so Rudy.

You don't realize what a good idea it is to have a spare power adapter until yours up and dies on you, leaving you in a panicked withdrawal for four days.

When it gets hot, these dolphin/seal creature turn into a mini-water park.

A little desk picnic lunch.

May 16 - May 20

Free hipster buttons from NPR! Get yours by emailing buttons@npr.org.

Colin complains that I take more pictures of Rudy than I do of him.

Speaking of Rudy.... or is it Batman?!

Walking along the Hudson on my way home after work.

More Taco Truck! I really try to limit my Taco Truck visits to once every other week, but it's hard!

May 11 - May 15

Post-kickball shenanigans with We Blue Ourselves (plus one sneaky photo-bomber). I don't know what is on my shoulder.

 

More flower shots.

After spotting four or five girls wearing this color, I bought a bottle for myself. Love it!

Dacey steak. Or should I say Ray/Dacey steak. Delish.

 

Orange cinnamon rolls. And yes, we made eight rolls for two people. It was worth it!

May 6 - May 10

Happy birthday party, Caitlin!

Happy birthday dinner, Sean!

 Happy Sunday afternoon nap, Rudy!

The fire escape herb garden is coming along.

Peanut butter from the peanut butter machine at work. What, your office doesn't have a peanut butter machine?

May 1 - May 5

A display of creativity during the Hoboken Arts Festival.

One of the perks of working for a publisher (even an online one) is the free books!

I'll take this kind of snow any day. The cold wet stuff? I had more than my fill this winter.

The Taco Truck's first day in Newark!

An unassuming sidewalk garden... until you notice the dinosaurs!

April 27 - April 30

Mini-road trip down to Baltimore/Bethesda to visit Colin's sister and go to a ball game.

Red Sox @ Orioles! Good seats for a good price, and a really nice stadium.

Out to dinner at Persimmon in Bethesda for an early celebration of Caitlin's birthday.

Back home and in the back yard. Rudy is still not so sure about this whole "outdoors" thing.

April 22 - April 26

Mcmahon's, naturally.

Happy Easter!

Azaleas from Fresh Picked.

Sushi! Albeit a roll without any actual raw fish. I think this was avocado and smoked salmon? Either way, it was tasty.

April 18 - April 21

 Tulips on 11th Street.

Neighborhood artwork.

More neighborhood artwork (dried and permanent).

A little hair updo. Pretty easy actually: just two braided pig-tails, tied in a not and bobby pinned. Voila!

April 13 - April 17

Blood oranges for blood orange sorbet! To date, I think it is the best thing I've made with the icre cream maker. I used David Leibovitz's recipe, though I have switched to store-bought blood orange juice (much easier than hand-squeezing) and I've learned to cut the sugar in half. I've made this sorbet easily half a dozen times so far.

The view from my office! Practice in session.

My peace lily. These make excellent office plants, because they are very hard to kill. In my old office in Greensboro, I had no windows. When I left for the weekend, I'd drop off my plant in a co-worker's office across the hall for two days of sunlight, then pick it up Monday morning, give it about 12 ounces of water, and that's it. The lily was HUGE and blossomed practically every month. I left it behind when I moved, but picked up this little guy a few weeks ago. I kid you not, that blossom has been going for about eight weeks now!

We got cable!

Sunday afternoon snack. Yes please.