as seen around my house

as i was walking from my kitchen through the living room to my bedroom, i saw this:




i had to stop and do a double take.




there really isn't much room between the piano bench and the bottom of the keyboard. mere inches. and while the above photo doesn't show how flat she really was, i can guarantee that matisse was squished in there. she of course gave me that look of "what?! why are you taking pictures of me?"

and this is what i saw when i went outside for fresh parsley:



moss! my pretty moss is coming back since we have had deluges of rain here over the past week. it had dried up in all our heat and drought this summer, leaving sad brown and crispy reminders of the soft bright green loveliness.

we're trying to buy the house we currently rent. it's going slowly, but the patio is one of the many things we'll redo if we do indeed get to purchase it. it was never laid properly and settled in a way that floods in rains. plus, it slopes towards the house instead of away from it. snappy and i want to do concrete pads or stone that allows the grass or the above moss or another ground cover to creep in. i love this moss. it'd be a shame to have it go away.