In an English mood

Is anyone watching Downton Abbey?  My friend L's ecstatic FB post reminded me to check out the series, and now I'm hooked!  I watched the season 2 premiere and it was good.  I'm enjoying the characters so much, and can't wait to see what happens next to the lords, ladies, and servants at Downton Abbey in Edwardian England during WWI. 

All this Downton Abbey madness (it is to the 30-65 crowd what the Hunger Games is to the tween to early '20s set in my opinion), has put me in an English mood these days.  I've been drinking tea with milk, and reading The Wind in the Willows (I guess I'm technically in an UK mood since I'm drinking Irish Breakfast and Kenneth Grahame is Scottish).  Anyhoo, it's been nice and cozy!

Still in an autumn mood

Joni Mitchell

I've been mesmerized by these two videos/songs for the past few months.

A nice, simple lunch

It's a gloomy day today . . . I just want to curl up with a book or watch a movie but I need to get some work done. That's okay. I like checking things off my list.

Had a simple, healthy lunch of bread, cheese, hummus, pomegranates, and figs. Many thanks to my friend T.G. for turning me onto the European style bread from Trader Joe's and giving me so many pomegranates!
I feel like this is something you would eat in Narnia or if you were a hobbit on a long journey away from home . . .

Have a great weekend! I'll be celebrating at the wedding of a good friend.