February 7, 2026 “Courage is found in unlikely places.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien #resistance #Minnesota #Minneapolis #ICEout #enough

February 6, 2026 “It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.” ― Theodore Roosevelt #resistance #Minnesota #Minneapolis #ICEout #enough

February 5, 2026 “I believe in the magic and authority of words.” ― René Char #resistance #Minnesota #Minneapolis #ICEout #enough

February 4, 2026 “Resist when the world tries to convince you otherwise.” ― Nic Stone #resistance #Minnesota #Minneapolis #ICEout #enough

@ms.now Why all the ICE ads during the evening news shows? Can't watch them. Don't want to watch them. STOP! Bye, Nicole Wallace. Bye, Ari Melber.

February 3, 2026 “Each of us, right here, right now—we are the resistance.” ― Jaye L. Knight #resistance #Minnesota #Minneapolis #iceout #enough

Happy Groundhog’s Day! “I believe in the resistance as I believe there can be no light without shadow; or rather, no shadow unless there is also light.” ― Margaret Atwood #groundhogsday #resistance #minneapolis #spring #margaretatwood

Rabbit, rabbit! Happy February! "We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil.” ― Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. #minneapolis #minnesota #blackhistorymonth #resistance #rabbitrabbit #february1

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Christmas amaryllis blooming right on time! January 11, 2026.

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Waiting for the sunrise

Rabbit, rabbit! Happy 2026! “I think it would be much more sensible if resolutions began generally on January the second.” —Helen Fielding #rabbitrabbit #January1st #rabbit #newyear

Merry Christmas!

Sugarplums Advent Day 24 “So up to the house-top the coursers they flew, With the sleigh full of Toys, and St. Nicholas too. And then, in a twinkling, I heard on the roof The prancing and pawing of each little hoof.” —Clement Clarke Moore #MerryChristmas #Christmas #Advent #reindeer #carrots #Santa

Sugarplums December 23, 2025 “A perfect piece of pink cake complicating perfection’s tendency to falter. Who left it on the counter? Who walked through the room as though through a composition?” —Noah Eli Gordon #sugarplums #Christmas #Advent #cakes #eataly

Sugarplums Advent Day 22 “There are marshmallows, gumdrops, and peppermint canes, With stripings of scarlet or gold, And you carry away of the treasure that rains, As much as your apron can hold!” —Eugene Field #advent #sugarplums #Christmas #candy #poetry

Sugarplums Advent Day 21 “Sprinkle someone with kindness today.” ― Benjamin Lee #Christmas #advent #sugarplums #cookies #poetry #sprinkles

Sugarplums Advent Day 20 “But then the first page is turned. The doughnut scent of it all, knowledge, The aroma of coffee being made In all those books, something for everyone, The deli offerings of civilization itself.” -Alberto Ríos #sugarplums #hanukkah #doughnuts #poetry

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Sugarplums Advent Day 19 “They will have cakes and candy by the heaps, And ice cream pressed in cake; Peanuts parched fresh and hot, And a lot of fine milk shakes.” —Julius C. Wright #sugarplums #advent #oreos #poetry

Sugarplums Advent Day 18 “An occasion for a plate, an occasional resource is in buying and how soon does washing enable a selection of the same thing neater. If the party is small a clever song is in order.” —Gertrude Stein #sugarplums #advent #Christmas #cookies #quotation #gertrudestein

Sugarplums Advent Day 17 “An I had but one penny in the world, thou shouldst have it to buy gingerbread.” ― William Shakespeare #sugarplums #gingerbread #advent #Christmas #Shakespeare

Sugarplums Advent Day 16 A very happy 250th birthday to Jane Austen! “I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.” ― Jane Austen #JaneAusten #250thbirthday #Advent #sugarplums #Christmas #cake #birthday #quotation

Sugarplums Advent Day 15 “We string bulbs, ignite bonfires, and light candles. And we sing.” —Anita Diamant #Christmas #Advent #cake #celebrate #poetry

Sugarplums Advent Day 14 Happy Hanukkah! “And just like that, like a simple neighborhood event, a miracle is taking place.” —Mary Oliver #sugarplums #cookies #Advent #Hanukkah #miracle #poetry

Sugarplums Advent Day 13 “Everything has a life of its own, it too could wake up filled with possibilities of coffee cake and ripe peaches, and love even the floor which needs to be swept, the soiled linens and scratched records . . .” —Naomi Shihab Nye #sugarplums #advent #tart #poetry #wegmans

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Sugarplums Advent Day 12 “The cousin from Maine, knowing about her diverticulitis, let out the nuts, so the cookies weren’t entirely to my taste, but they were good enough; yes, good enough.” —Jane Kenyon #sugarplums #cookies #spritzcookies #Advent #Christmas #poetry

Sugarplums Advent Day 11 “Pies have a reputation. And it’s immediate—no talk of potential Regarding a pie. It’s good Or it isn’t, but mostly it is—sweet, very sweet” —Alberto Ríos #sugarplums #pie #blueberry #poetry #sweets #Christmas #Advent

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Sugarplums Advent Day 10 “And O, the red apples, and pop-corn on strings; And balls of it, too, and nuts, candy and things; And O, such a dinner and such pumpkin pie; I eat and I eat till I thought I would die.” —Libbie C. Baer #sugarplums #pie #Christmas #Advent

Sugarplums Advent Day 9 “All those years you lunched with Margaret, or spent time cooking meals together, baking cookies, batch after batch. Meals at Thanksgiving and, yes, especially come Christmastime.” —Paul Mariani #sugarplums #Advent #Christmas #cookies #flamingos #flamboyance

Sugarplums Advent Day 8 “The way clouds taste as they go from castles to rabbits above your head.” —Claudia Castro Luna #sugarplums #advent #Christmas #eclairs #poem

Sugarplums Advent Day 7 “A steady cake, any steady cake is perfect and not plain, any steady cake has a mounting reason and more than that it has singular crusts.” —Gertrude Stein #sugarplums #Christmas #cake #poem #GertrudeStein

Sugarplums Advent Day 6 “Write, rewrite, rewrite, and rewrite. until you can barely stand it any longer; then go do something else that provides immediate gratification, like baking or dancing." — Cynthia Neale #sugarplums #Christmas #advent #chocolatestoutcake #barringtonbrewery @Barrington brewery

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Sugarplums The fifth day of Advent. “The smell of vanilla batter filled the air. 'Ah, the scent of revenge,' I whispered in the silence.” ― Melody J. Bremen #sugarplums #advent #Christmas #baking #yulelog

Sugarplums Advent Day 4 "The smell of good baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water, is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight." —M.F.K. Fisher #sugarplums #Christmas #baking #Advent #nationalcookieday

Sugarplums Advent Day 3 “You think you don’t have room for another bite, but you still can’t resist.” ― Elyssa Friedland. #sugarplums #advent #December #treatyourself #homemadefood #chocolatecreampie #Christmas

The second day of Advent. “Look, there’s no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.” ― Fernando Pessoa Hazelnut torte from La Farm Bakery, Raleigh, NC #sugarplum #advent #christmas #cake #torte #RaleighNC #LaFarmBakery @LaFarmBakery

Rabbit, rabbit! Happy December! “He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf, And I laughed when I saw him, in spite of myself;” —Clement Moore

Back over the river we go. So long Tybee Island, Savannah and South of the Border. We gobbled, gobbled! #thanksgiving #roadtrip

Walkabout Savannah. #savannah #walkabout