Tag: picnics

The Best Present Ever!

My editor sent me this present: 

Photo of new books

I’ve got mail!

And I opened it:

The Two Mutch Sisters, Spring 2018 | The Pickwicks’ Picnic, September 2017 | Clarion (both)


Did I mention I love my editor?

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Even little Talia was excited, until I came over to take her picture:

Get down off the table, Lil T.


The takeaway is this: No matter what happens in this world, it’s a comfort to think of the innocence and wonder of children and childhood. And cats. 

A World of Picnics!

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Japanese women picnicking c. 1910 (Source: the article linked below).

Naturally, eating outdoors isn’t a Western invention, nor is it a new one. From National Geographic, a collection of fascinating pictures of picnics then and now, here and there, morning or afternoon, young or old: Nice Day for a Picnic