Subway Flower Day!

Whenever I get lucky enough to get the car on a weekday, I also know I'm getting lucky in flowers. Tyler takes the subway when I get the car, and I get the car and subway flowers! They are always beautiful, last so long, and guess what? I bet you cant guess how much these 12 roses cost. Just take a guess and meet me at the bottom of this post. 

 Ohh, soo lovely. 

$6, dudes!

Horse and Hound Inn

The last place we stayed in Lincoln, NH was a DISASTER. So I searched for a place that did not remind me of Arsenic and Old Lace. Meaning - no lace, canopy, 4 poster, granny-ness, carpet, or chintz. So I had to start looking outside of Lincoln! Found - the lovely Horse and Hound Inn. 


Spare bedrooms, no TV or radio (lovely!), and very clean and tidy. A little noisy on their après ski evening. But they were very kind to give us earplugs and ibuprofin. Likely fine if we hadnt driven so much that night. It was nice to hear Sinatra floating up the stairs. Beautiful library and bar. We didnt eat there, but they sent us off the next day with homemade muffins. So good!

There were 2 dead ladybugs...but this
 little guy hung out with us all weekend. 

Just me liking the juxtaposition of all the colors and textures.

So nice to wake up to snow - in someone else's backyard! 

Lovely dessert leftovers

Brown Bird

The band that's named after a dog, and sounds so sweet. Brown Bird is from Providence, RI. But many would say they got their start summering at Star Island. Or at least maybe that's where they built their following. It is certainly why Tyler and I found them. Brown Bird would be classified probably as blue grass. I would call them melancholy and heart hurting in a good way. The way you don't want to stop. It just pulllls at your heart. You can feel it. Yeah, they are amazing.

Tyler got me tickets to the sold out show!!! My billionth birthday weekend surprise, Tyler got tickets to the show. We grabbed a quick bite at Hot Suppa, well, I mean we drank... Then stood out in the freezing cold. While we were waiting, a bunch of people cut us in line. I was not happy. I was cold! And we got to listen to the hap-happiest highest girl ever - who told us that we would looooooove Devil Makes Three, the headliner. Too bad we weren't there for them. Yep, we're those folks that went just for the band we knew. If we heard DM3. great. but it didn't really matter. She said it would be the BEST EXPERIENCE OF OUR LIVES. Yeah, well.

We finally got in. We sat at a little cafe table in the back and soaked up the charm and took in a great show. Shipyard Prelude on tap. Perfect.

We highly recommend seeing a show at the Port City Music Hall. The space was beautiful, the bar was nice, it was a sold out show and still felt like there was breathing room. Nice VIP space, and good food (didnt have any, too many people). Staff was pretty nice, and again, beautiful space.

Tyler figured out that his 'life look' is shared by more than half the population as Portland, and he might not be as distinct looking up here as in Boston. Hmmm. We still think about moving up here. A lot!

Freezin' Evenen'

After Tacos, we continued back into downtown Portland. I had expected that we were going back to the hotel to change, so I hadn't really layered up for the evening. We were going to go to dinner in our fancy clothes but heard a couple of bad reviews of the place, so we kept walking and window shopping. And then I ran into a store and bought more clothes to put on. Scarf and furry finger-less mittens. Whew, it got damn cold out there! It was a good excuse for me to run into stores to look around and get warm, then pop out and into the next interesting looking one. They're all interesting looking, so we went into a lot! The town was really festive and nicely crowded. It was a fun weekend to be walking around at night with all the lights. 

Want to make this!

I want this to be our porch next year for the holiday!

We did not take pictures of the 'scary trees'
which looked similar, but had red trees and
yellow pods. I felt like we were in Return to
Oz. CREEEEEPY

No words. You never know what you'll see in Maine!

YUM YUM TACOS. Well, we didnt really eat any tacos...

I made Tyler go in. We JUST ate!

Look, I made my own photo booth!

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what is bee pollen as a spice, anyway?

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Amazing soup and drinks and atmosphere. I could have moved in and had the seating area as a living room. Mexican wedding cookies were petite and wonderful. Service was great. Tyler kept grumbling that I stop taking pictures, but how would I show you all this?

A pint with our walk. Of course!

In search of sustenance, we finally found a bar. Food was great and beer was even better. Also, they had great home-grown artwork around of celebrities. Definitely seemed like the local hang out and everyone was REALLY nice. 

best way to avoid permanent graffitti? Provide chalk!

light bathroom reading

yeah, I could see us coming here again