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This springtime in Texas has been truly glorious – we've had a very mild winter with only one or two minor freezes,
and more rain than anyone's seen in ages. It truly feels like an earthly benediction, after the brutal drought we had
this summer – the worst in Texas history. Everything has come back to life. Green tendrils unfurling gratefully, tiny
tree frogs frolicking under dewy leaves, everything opening, breathing again. The air is thick with flower smells:
grape-lilac sweet mountain laurel, woody iris, and bee-sweet honeysuckle – all these blow in through the open
window, wreathing around my head in a sugary nimbus. The sap rising in our sycamores, the soil rich and black
with rain, and everywhere is the wonderful smell of our garden falling in love again. How does your garden grow?

New post up at Angeliska Gazette: Springtime Scents

I finally sat down and wrote about all the things that happened in 2011! It was a lot. The absolute cherry on the cake of my year was without a doubt this wonderful portrait Molly Crabapple
created of me as the Ace of Hearts, for the 52 Aces card deck by Zeixs, a German creative firm. Read more of my goings-on and what-not yonder:

New post up at Angeliska Gazette: An Epically Epic and Fairly Tardy Year in Review – or, HOLY SHIT: 2011!