this is february?

here in the south, we have no need of Punxsutawney Phil. We have these guys to tell us that spring is almost here:

apparently they're called anoles. love these guys!

another love of mine gave me this beautiful orchid flower arrangement for valentine's day (i've mentioned many a time that i don't like roses. well, i like roses, but in a garden. in a vase they can be rather cliche):

and wake forest even sent me a valentine! arrived yesterday in the mail. makes the fact that i've graduated just a bit more real...

gotta love february. though i'm nonetheless impatiently waiting for mid march so i can hear from grad schools!

let it snow

while the rest of the country has been smothered in a nasty wintry mix, it's sunny and 60s/70s in Chucktown this week. but the kiddos i work with do miss living up north sometimes, especially when they see cars covered in snow on the news (a different reaction once you turn 16). so i made them a snow mobile of sorts with the paper snowflakes we made and a ceiling fan:

and voila, when you turn the fan on "low":

snow!

but otherwise, we're enjoying the weather outside..

sorry the pictures are so small, too lazy busy to use an actual camera!