Happy Spring Equinox!

 Just a peek at the sparkly corsages and boutonnieres -

- for reception #3 this weekend....

WIP Wednesday - Asian bakeries

Down to planning the third and final open house after the son's wedding... Part of that is checking out the food options. In person! This open house will have primarily Asian food, and Justin especially wants stuffed buns. Must.Taste.Test!

This entails a trip to Seattle's International District.

Whose entry is guarded by lovely decorative pagoda -

- and lovely dragons! (I want some of these hanging outside of *my* house.)

I love the mix of food, typography, icons, lanterns - and the occasional satellite dishes.

Many of the store fronts are thematic and gorgeous.

(if I can't have a dragon outside my house, could I have a Chines lion? please?)

Even the columns underneath the overpass show Asian influence.

Just outside of China Town, you can see glimpses of Seattle proper -here's the train station's clock tower.

We were successful in our bakery pillaging. Stuffed buns for us! (Coconut, taro, red-bean paste, bbq,chicken curry, fried sesame, etc...!) I must say, it will be hard to narrow it down. Maybe we need to try them all again....

Music Monday - The Wedding Song

I leave in the morning for the final week of wedding prep for the son and his fiance (the actual wedding and first reception are on Saturday). Wish me luck. Sanity. Survival.... In the interim, here is the quintessential wedding song, IMO -

And here are some shots of the kids... Summery ones. I'll return with more wintery ones. :-)