Nice Stems

I was going to share with you some awesome photos from my weekend, including lol-inducing (I apologize, it just slipped out) shots from the housewarming fiesta we threw on Saturday, and mouth-watering shots of chorizo-stuffed-bacon-wrapped dates from Primitivo (oh the grease! smokey smokey grease!), but then the evil USB stick I put them on sucked my memories into the black hole of dead computer files and lost socks.  I don't want to talk about it.  So you're just going to have to trust me.  They were awesome.

In lieu of my awesome weekend photos, you'll just have to settle for these pretties of the garden scene in my 'hood.

{jasmines = my fave}

Not such a bad substitute, right?  Oh, you really wanted to see the self-pic of Sharz grasping my $-sign imprinted throw pillow with crazy eyes?  Or the one of our rarely used yet essential margarita machine in action?  Yeah, me too.