friday love list

because i like meg's challenges, a list of things i love:

- unexpected emails from friends
- Adobe Illustrator
- the abundance of life in my backyard (lizards, geckos, iguanas, frogs, snakes, blue jays, cardinals, woodpeckers, parrots, orioles)
- Eddie Izzard
- umeboshi
- Lotte Ghana chocolate bars
- Ioan Gruffud as Horatio Hornblower
- helloalena's photos
- empire waist dresses
- homemade gooseberry jam
- reading the first lines of a book i know i'm going to enjoy
- antique maps
- dark and stormy days
- going to a horse show
- learning new words (this week's is gallimaufry)
- baking a perfect lemon meringue pie
- his smile