It’s springtime, Tallahassee…

Also, it’s Springtime Tallahassee. I did not attend the festivities this weekend. Mostly due to the fact that I spent several years living at the start of the parade route, where staging would begin bright and early on a Saturday morning. But, that’s a story for another time…

I will discuss the fact that Tally is lovely this time of year. I remember a slogan from when I was a kid–I don’t recall if it was specifically for Springtime Tallahassee or if it was just some general Chamber of Commerce-y thing–”Tallahassee, where springtime comes first”. To that I say, “word”. It’s still cold in lots of the U.S., but not here. Balmy and blooming like mad. Check out the flowery-ness just in my yard alone (and these are just random camera phone pics taken on the spur of the moment):

And those are just the azaleas. We also got dogwoods, wisteria, camellias, it’s a madhouse of blooming things. And pollen galore…not a happy time for the allergy prone. But everything looks so pretty…

Arts and Crafts

So, I often have stuff around the house that I think is cool, but that I’m not sure what to do with it. Such was the case with these really pretty glass balls. Actually they are glass floats that used to be used by fishermen to hold up their nets and crab traps and such. Anyway, I had 6 of them that were given to be by a friend when he moved. I recently bought one more at an antique store (the orange one, I was just so taken by the color. It’s like I’m a house cat or something…ooh look…sparkly!)

Anyway, the recent addition of a new member to the glass ball family made me think I should do something with them. I had long ago cut them out of the rope net things that they had been in… while that may be practical for use in the fishing trade, I’m not going to be out angling with these things. And the thick-ish ropes make it hard to see the pretty colors. They had been sitting in a bowl on the dinning room table, looking like perfectly round multicolored fruit. But, they really needed to be somewhere where they get some light. Then a brainstorm…not on the dining room table, over it. A dowel, some fishing line, and a couple of hooks later…voilà!

Chandelier. Or at least, chandelier-esque.

Here it is the context of the dinning room as a whole:

Like it? I do.