Friday night: Had the good fortune to watch one crazy storm! Pat and I went out after work for dinner and drinks, and as we were leaving the restaurant, the storm started. Niether of us thought it was going to be as bad as it was! We'd driven over to Target, and had to sit in the car for a good 10 minutes, waiting for the torrential rain and fierce thunder & lightning to stop. Poor Pat! She's like my grandmother and my dogs...not liking the storms so much! I, of course, was taking pictures :-) Didn't get a lightning shot, tho, dammit!

(click on the pictures to get a better view)

Saturday: Dad and I went up to Parker's Maple Barn in Mason NH for breakfast, then we drove around the back roads, just enjoying the scenery. We stopped at Pickity Place, also in Mason and I took some pictures:

Pickity Place serves 5-course gourmet luncheons, 3 seatings a day, reservations required and has an herb garden, flower garden and gift shop; it's also where Elizabeth Orton Jones illustrated her retelling of Little Red Riding Hood story.

I had gotten some new sheets (pink & green!) Friday night at Target; Wolf broke them in for me:

Michelle called that night about 8 and spontaneously asked if I wanted to go to the movies with her. I adore spontaneity, and said hell yes! We saw Lady in the Water; once again, critics be damned! I really liked this movie, and funnily enough...I don't care much for the director, M. Night Shyamalan's OTHER movies, Sixth Sense especially. I've heard a rumor he may be tapped to direct the 6th Harry Potter movie, The Half-Blood Prince...hmmm...

We saw some previews for three other movies that look awesome: The Pursuit of Happiness, featuring Will Smith; Children of Men directed by Alfonso Cuarón (he also directed Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban) and starring Julianne Moore & Clive Owen; and World Trade Center, featuring Nicolas Cage.

Sunday: Met Michelle at the Boston Museum of Science today to see Body Worlds 2. It's an exhibit of human bodies and organs that have been preserved by a process called Plastination. Fascinating exhibition, but a bit disturbing at the same time. We also saw a movie at the Omni Theater called The Human Body. Finally, I checked out the Butterfly Garden and got a couple nice shots:

(the one on the left was HUGE!, the size of a sparrow!)

How was YOUR weekend?

I am SO all over that movie The Persuit of Happiness with you. That looked Fantastic. So did the others.

Those last two pics of the moth and the butterfly...You are inspiring me to do more with my photography on line...Thanks for sharing!

Great pics - I love the stormy ones!

I want to see lady in the water- I like Night's movies personally a fair amount.

The Children of Men looks really cool, I think Paul watched the preview of that last night. I love movies like that - set in the future and all.

Love the storm shots and the ones of the butterflies. (butterflies? or moth and butterfly?)

I saw Lady in the Water last week and I liked it way better than the critics did too. (OTOH, I really liked The Sixth Sense and The Village a lot too, although I was less crazy about Signs and Unbreakable.)

The weekend was good, though busy. Got the Piccalilli made and then went out to the garden and had 5 more cukes to pick! What to make, what to make?
Woke up to 55 degree weather this morning, how wonderful!

I LOVE a good storm!!!!

I SO wanted to see that "Body" exhibit in NYC....but no one wanted to go with me!!!

Nooo! M. Night can't direct Harry Potter. Ugh. I watched "Signs" for the first time a few weeks ago, and there's just something about his style that bugs me.

Hey, question. Did you like living in Norfolk/Va Beach? I was thinking that might be a relocation option.

Had a great weekend, thanks! Sounds like you had a lovely one.

I've heard about the body exhibit; I'd love to see it. And "Children of Men" looks like it could be very good.

I saw "Miami Vice" this weekend. Oh my God. I am going to marry Colin Farrell if I have to drug him and cart him away in the middle of the night to do it. *sighs*

Hi...visiting from Michele's
Sounds like you had a fun-filled weekend. Loved the photos of the storm!

Yay, pretty pictures! :)

I feel a little sorry for Shyamalan. Now everyone expects a Big Twist every time, and the audience will be ruthless with him if he doesn't live up to their expectations. Authors can just change their names and write in a different style if they feel like it (the way Agatha Christie did when she wanted to write romantic books - she became Mary Westmacott then) but movie people just get their photos taken too often for that to work...

Looks like you had a really nice weekend. Mine was less eventful but very relaxing. Love the storm pics, very beautiful. Glad you enjoyed Lady, its a fun film. I'm glad this film didn't have the big twist moment. There were some interesting revelations as to who was who in the story but no big "ta-da!!!" moment which I really enjoyed.

OMG warn people when you're posting pictures of those awful butterflies! i swear that one on the left, while beautiful, tried to attack me. through the monitor. stop laughing, it did.

glad you had a good weekend despite the freaky rain friday.

I love the sheets and I've always wanted to visit the butterfly farm. Cool. Sounds like a fun and spontaneous weekend.

Ohhhh, storms. We haven't had rain in forever. I miss it.

And I love the pictures, all of them.

After the storm is magnificent and the purple in the rainbow shot is wow.

I love the pics of the butterflies.

Congrats. on being chosen Michele's site of the day!

Sorry my face is red. Meant to say Michele sent me....on my way to the site of the day. :)

I'm in love w/Wolf. That's such a cute pic.