I love this tattoo: [link]

I'm sort of going through an obsession with maple seeds...you know, the little helicopter wings. I am currently wearing this: [link] necklace and I am thinking of making stationary with maple wings and this quote: Sine pennis volare haud facile est (it is hard, not impossible).

I grew up in a house that had 4 maple trees. One is the red maple I used to climb in (and flip out of). One is the tree you could see from my bedroom. One was a sugar maple we would tap on occasionally tap in the spring for maple sugar.

I miss maple trees.

You just may have solved a mystery, Kat! My tree (well, the city's) out front threw a bunch of those down on my car and porch roof. So I'm guessing it is a maple! I was wondering and A has been out of town so I haven't been able to ask her.

We call those Pinocchio noses in my family! Because you can open up the flat side and stick them on your nose.

HA! like this, sara: [link] ? Maples are super distinctive.

We used to try to drop the seeds down in such a way as to make them spin in perfect spirals.

I get a 404 on that link...I'll have to take a picture. Too dark now.

Ah, Google tells me that "Pinocchio noses" are not unique to my family.

A friend calls them "Pollynoses", as in Pollyanna, I think. I used to think she was saying some funny latin like "polyneuses".

That link to the tatoo story was a nice read. Liked her style of writing and revealing.

Aww. I have fond memories of a red maple growing up, too.

Oh! And we're having a downright thunderstorm and it's freaking me and the Biscuit right out. He was barking out the door at the thunder. I don't think he's going to be able to catch it, though he might eventually chase it off.