From the Mind of AlphaBetsy

This weekend mom, Seth and I headed to Lithopolis, Ohio to attend the honey festival for the first time. It was a fabulous little street festival. And there was so much delicious honey. I could have spent hundreds of dollars on honey. I somehow managed to hold off that urge, but it was really hard. I talked to a lot of really nice people though, found a goat farm named gallifrey farms (the owner was so excited when I got it), got a lot of compliments on my camera strap and ate some fantastic pizza at a place called JRs in downtown Lithopolis. I purchased a hand painted candle holder with bees/hives on it, several packets of heirloom seeds, Seth and I's initials carved from books, an herbal honey that can help with anxiety, cinnamon honey, lemon verbena honey and buckwheat honey. Before we left my mom had a little visitor. Beautiful tabletop beehive Bees hard at work making the festival possible Blacksmith plying her trade. She is my hero, and she of...

I spent the weekend in Chicago, to see my favorite singer Amanda Palmer, and her band the Grand Theft Orchestra. Seth's cousin, David, lives in Chicago, and he let us crash at his apartment. It was awesome because he lived about 5 minutes away from the venue on foot. I dressed up for the show because I always do. I am wearing a tail coat, but it is kind of hard to see. You can't see my knee high striped socks.  Jherek The Simple Pleasure Add caption Amanda!!  The show was amazing. For her encore she performed Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah, and made me cry. I also cried when they performed the song "Lost" from the new album Theatre is Evil. She asked us to send in photos and during that song flashed photos of people we had lost, and my grandparents flashed by. It was kind of emotional for me. I love her, have for years and will apparently continue to.  The next photos are ones I took on the streets of Chicago. Some of the...