H is Hover Vase

An invention that will never be invented but should be: the hover vase.

The idea: when someone gives you a gift of a bouquet of living, temporary, delicious, flowers, with petals, stamens, leaves you put them in water in a hover vase. The hover vase would then follow you around so you could admire their ephemeral beauty through out the day and night.

The idea in Beta: carrying your flowers with you.

A is for Appropriation

Recently, I've been inspired by two friends and their blogs--one started a new blog, and the other gave herself the alphabet challenge. So thank you to these friends who have inspired me to re-appropriate my old blog and start writing on it again.

Another A is the Autumnal A, which is quickly getting away from me. Snow fell today. But before that happened, I finally got to jump around in piles of leaves. Messing up piles of leaves is an activity for every child in the Midwest, and since I came to the Midwest in my 20s I hadn't found a pile of leaves that I could guiltlessly jump and kick. (Raking is hard work and takes a lot of time.)But on Thanksgiving day, Russell and I and some of the Rolffs clan made it out to the park for good old fashion frisbee, bocce ball, and leaf fights. (These leaves were public leaves, and no one had raked them into piles.)