"Someday we'll find it...The Rainbow Connection.
The lovers, the dreamers and me."

Wrong frog... this is my garden frog he watches over my garden. However, none to well as the snails have still managed to sneak their way in and eat up many a good plant. Favorites have been marigolds and the peppers I had planted in hopes of a nice summer harvest alas...

I went out in the hot sun today, got a little dirt under my fingernails and a little pink on my cheeks while working in my small garden. It felt wonderful! I am getting some sweet little cherry tomatoes coming in late in the season, and couldn't resist taking a picture to share.




I also got to indulge by lying in the hammock (after toiling in the hot sun first of course) curled up under the shade of an umbrella with the novel Girl with a Pearl Earring. A fictional tale about the famous 17th century Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer and his most famous yet also mysterious painting...

"Girl with a Pearl Earring"



In my earlier college years I took one class of Renaissance Art History and fell in love. Had I not been so set in studying Biology, who knows? ; )
I feel lucky to have had the experience of that class and to have gained an appreciation of both the art and architecture of the period. This I am sure has a lot to do with my interest and love of the novel so far. In my minds eye I can see Griet in Vermeer's studio, opening the shutters, and the morning sunlight falling softly on the easel and canvas. I can almost smell the earthy aroma of the attic where Griet and Johannes grind ingredients for new paint.

Due to the popularity of this book a movie will be coming out in December starring Colin Firth as Johannes Vermeer. Needless to say I am looking forward to it and it doesn't hurt that I am a Colin Firth fan either. = )
A small part of me knows that I will most likely be a little disappointed. The book is quite detailed in its descriptions and it will be hard for the movie to fully portray that (and certainly not in the way I have created it in my own mind of course). All of this aside I have hopes that it will be one definitely worth seeing come Winter.
If I have peaked your interest a little here's a site from the novelist Girl with a Pearl Earring.


~A special postscript: Happy Anniversary Mike & Julie!! = )