Buttons and books

Today's photo challenge was a picture of a button. I thought to myself, everything I use is a zipper but then I thought of my coat, it has buttons. And yes it is from a winter coat but it is from a lighter coat which is a good thing here in Boston. Usually at this time of year I have to wear my big puffy coat and ugly winter boots. But this winter I have gotten to wear my lighter winter coat more than I thought I would. I bought this coat in January because of the sales. But I thought I would wear a little until early spring but this winter has been very mild so I have been able to wear my new coat a lot. So this button is not only a button it represents a mild winter. A mild winter, that I hope sticks around.

Full view of coat

Also the book store is still dangerous place for me. While I am on a tighter budget, I still spend too much money on books. I went to the book store to pick up two books for my archiving class and while I was there I saw two books on writing. One is The Writing Life: writers on how they think and work, it seems to be a collections of essays from contemporary literature. The back of the book says "A dazzling collection of essays in which today's most celebrated writers explore their personal relationships literary life. While I love to write I will admit I know little about the craft of writing. Then next to it was Wounds of Passion: a writing life by bell hook (her name is not capitalized on cover so I am copying that). It is more of a personal narrative about her life as a writer.

Back drop provided by my bed comforter. 

When I am came home from class a book I had ordered off Amazon was waiting for me, fortunately that was provided by a gift card from Christmas or else I really would be broke.

Any way I have the next four books I am going to read planed out. Of course in grad school that could take me well into the summer, so I will keep you posted on my readings. First, I have to finish my current book The American Heiress, I am almost done 60 or so more pages to read.

Speaking of books, and more on my countdown to Valentine's day  I have discovered another band... Mr. Hudson & the Library. It is amazing what you can find on Spotify when you do a random search. I did a search for library and found this band.... Hope you enjoy.

Here is there version of  "On the street where you live"

Count down to Valentine

I found this artist Kina Grannis over the weekend, it led me to other artist and other songs so I thought I would share some of them. So I am going to share them in my count down to Valentines day.

Hope you enjoy.

Monday Musings

Before I forget here is my dinner photo from the day 5 photo challenge.

Left over Chinese food...loveliness for a grad student &

a mug of Orange, Pineapple and Banana juice 

(the cups are in the back cabinet and I was too lazy). 

I might have some Greek yogurt later.

Today my office smelled of lilies.

My boss is gone for most of the week so she left these out in the common area. 

It was really nice. 

I love pink lilies.

But I noticed this lily had a little droplet coming from its stem that didn't move.

So I wanted to capture photos of it. 

Then I was walking home I saw the moon (it is the little circle in the trees). 

It looked full and I tried to capture it with the Prudential tower in the shot as well. 

I thought it was a nice photo of Boston. 

I love this city. 

Also I want to wish my dear friend a HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

It will be alright

First let me say I am not a big football fan but I do watch the Superbowl almost every year. Sadly tonight the Patriots lost tonight. As much as I am not a football fan it would have been great to win. (If you are Giants fans please don't leave any mean comments.) However I came home turned on Spotify and this was the first song that came on. So I wanted to share it with all my Patriot rooting fans. Hang on. 

Photo challenge wise... I totally missed 10 AM so I don't have a photo. But my blogging friend at Girl plus everything else took a photo of the scripture her church was reading. I liked that idea but I don't want to be a total copy cat. I hope you check out her blog.