Chocolate, friends and memories

Went for a run this morning to avoid the heat later in the day, and was struck again by how FAST spring seems to have jumped on us this year: trees seeming to bud overnight, flowers blooming in a heartbeat. Or maybe I'm just more aware of the seasons now that we live in a residential area. Looking out our condo window in downtown Toronto a couple years ago, it sometimes seemed as if the only way you could tell the season was by the arrival of the Unknown Guitarist.


Will Write For Chocolate has been updated, as you can see above. I've been having fun reading the answers to my Inkygirl Survey: did you ever use a manual typewriter? As I mentioned in that entry, my first typewriter was a manual Underwood, and I used horrible powdery correction paper to fix mistakes. Then I won an electric typewriter in a writing contest, and I thought THAT was pretty high tech.

But speaking of chocolate: as I mentioned in a Blathering a while back, I've had to cut down on my chocolate intake to lower my blood sugar level. My friend Sibylle in Germany kindly sent me some sugar-free chocolate to help me cope with my frustrated chocolaholicism (sp? :-):



Yummmm....

And today, a surprise package arrived for Jeff and me today from Erin and Rand: a travel size mango mandarin for me (I love Bath & Bodyworks, but it's only in the U.S.) and some chocolate for Jeff (Fast Break is his favourite chocolate bar):



Wow, I feel spoiled.

:-)

My delivery from Richter's Herbs arrived today, making it an extra bonus mail day. My herb collection now consists of: sweet basil (both store-bought and grown from seed), bush basil, regular sage, purple sage, English lavender, Anouk lavender, lemon basil, lemon thyme, regular thyme, chocolate mint, peppermint, rosemary, parsley grown from seed, French tarragon, Greek oregano, and chives. I have enough basil that I might actually attempt to make some pesto this summer. Last year I only had one basil plant, and that didn't last me very long.



Hey, and my Morning Glory is sprouting! Jeff does a good job at feigning excitement whenever I tell him garden news like this. To some, Morning Glory may seem like a weed. To me, it's always reminded me of my mom, who used to love growing it every year:



Plants can evoke such strong memories, can't they? I planted lavender because it reminds me of the wonderful bank of lavender at Fonte De' Medici, a place we stayed during our Italy trip:



I run my fingers through the green stalks, and the fragrance brings me back to that place.

My favorite plant in our garden is the purple lilac, solely because of the fragrance. It reminds me of when we lived out in the country because of the lilac trees on the property.

What are your memory plants?



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