This is what my perfect world looks like.

It’s not like me to be so errant in my posting but the garden has become a bit of an obsession and, as this is not a gardening blog, I haven’t bothered boring you with my agonizing decision between blue stone and tumbled granite, and about my sleepless nights wondering why my black nasturtiums are not coming up.

I have also been shopping for a new bicycle. I’d like something that is easy to ride but not so butch as all the new bikes. I want something elegant. With gears.

Here are some pictures. First, a bike in a window in Germany. It would be outstandingly perfect if that sign on the left was on the bicycle somehow. Or conversely, if that sign was for the cafe below and I could ride the bicycle there for a coffee. If I could somehow involve the nasturtium garlands in all this I could die happy.

ya ya ya goes to the Met.

So I was looking at the pictures from the Met Costume Institute gala, and I have one word for you: yawn. But rather than just being a hater, I decided to put my money where my mouth is and try to find something more interesting to wear to the BIG event. From ebay.

Ignore the gloves. Dress-$24

Vintage Nina Ricci- $2000

A little over priced, but very pretty- $275

Oddly intriguing fabric (not sure what’s going on in the sleeve department)- $76

I know that this doesn’t seem formal enough, but I am convinced that you could somehow make this work- $195