Clearly I have not been a faithful blogger these last few weeks.  Once again, time has slipped away in the blink of an eye and I have not made the time to write in this space.  But here I am, trying to make up for lost time.
Let me begin by telling you that spring is really here, in all its glory.  To back up my words I offer Exhibit A (and if this isn’t proof, then I don’t know what is):

Of course, most of you know this by now and have yearned for and embraced this seasonal change right along with me.  But I thought I would offer proof anyway.
In other exciting news, J has just joined Girls Guns & Glory and will be touring around the Northeast, Midwest and South in the coming months.  You can view the band’s schedule here to see if they’ll be playing in your area.  The band happened to have a show in Portland (Maine) at Empire last Friday so I was lucky enough to see him play with them already.

And in case you’re wondering, J is gesturing to the drummer with his pointer finger and not his middle finger in the photo above.  Pictured is Ward Hayden, lead singer and acoustic guitar, Colt Thompson, lead guitar, John Graham, drums, and Maine’s very own Justin Maxwell on upright and electric bass.  The guys sounded great and we had a blast ripping it up on the dance floor.  The band is headed to NYC tonight to play at the Rodeo Bar.
In other music news, J and I (along with his father and step-mother) went to see Greg Brown last week at the Stone Mountain Arts Center in Brownfield, Maine.  I bought tickets back in November for J’s birthday, and the original date back in February was cancelled due to a blizzard and rescheduled for April 9.  This worked out well, in part because it became a celebration of almost exactly two years together for us.  Our first real date was going to see Greg Brown at the Camden Opera House in April of 2007.  Both shows were great, and the Stone Mountain Arts Center is worth the trip and price.  I hope we’ll make it back again.

I think I’ll sign off with a few photographs from Easter weekend.  J and I drove up to my parents for church and dinner, and as usual my mom prepared a dinner that was just as pleasing to the eye as it was to the belly.  I can take credit only for the maple-glazed parsnip dish (we had our first CSA pickup last weekend!).