It smells so nice here

And everything is so green. Took pictures, will upload later. Yesterday I went out with Dad to help appraise some farm/woodland properties, and while we were driving I thought about the feeling I'd had when we were driving out of Manhattan - that I'm dooming myself to creative stagnation because omg so much ~inspiration~ there that I never took advantage of! But then I realized that for all that people talk about how inspiring and magical the city is, the books I like best are ones that draw from forests and villages and oldness (eg Austen, Diana Wynne Jones, Susanna Clarke) - and there's plenty of that around here. So then I felt better.

I found a 2001 Honda Civic on Craigslist that I'm going to call about today. \o/ Wonderful fuel efficiency and it's located in Greenwich.

Need to send transcript request form so the Dept. of Labor will give me my money!!

J and I are going to have a tea party tomorrow. Right now I've got cream in the oven, hopefully turning into clotted cream, and I'm also going to make banana bread, iced strawberry tea punch, Devonshire splits (hence the cream), and little strawberry tarts. Although something might get cut out.

This book sounds adorable and I fully plan to read it at some point.

I meant to link these before

I while ago I uploaded my photos from the Museu do Traje in Lisbon in two parts - the 19th century and the 20th century. Not amazing pictures, but they have some good pieces. Also some pictures I'm using as sources for my thesis project and links to Met objects I posted today so I could close some tabs.