Do you like puppies? Motorcycle jackets? Shapeshifting jasmine?

Goodness, I didn't post at all last week ...

Well, today I bring you three things. Let's lead with puppies...

( puppies )

( motorcycle jackets )

Popcorn Jasmine

I have a jasmine plant which gets to live outside during warm months. It gives me great joy to go admire its flowers and breathe in their scent... and sometimes pick them for tea. I have the shape of their petals memorized.

This past Saturday, we stopped at a highway rest stop on our way home from visiting my dad, and in the parking lot by one car there were all these jasmine flowers scattered. I started imagining how it must be because the car was carrying a newly married couple and their families were scattering jasmine flowers at their feed ... at every rest stop ... (?)

There was a sparrow picking at the jasmine blossoms--a jasmine-eating sparrow!

I came closer and then realized the truth: what I'd taken for jasmine flowers was actually popcorn.