Bleeding Espresso

Friend and faithful reader Lucy of On My Way 2 Work and Other Stuff sent in a this adorable photo:

with the note:

Here is the frosty heart inside my car window one Saturday morning. My windows frost over inside and outside if I don’t park it in the garage! But this was nice to see and reminded me of you!

So sweet! And, in turn, this photo reminded me of one of my favorite poems by Robert Frost:

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.

My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.

He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound’s the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

Somehow this poem always manages to give me a warm fuzzy despite the cold overtones. Frost was truly an amazing wordsmith.

What are your favorite poems?

Happy Love Thursday everyone!

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It’s been a while since I’ve stopped and really thanked all of you for continuing to come and visit me here at the blog, on Twitter @michellefabio, and/or on the blog’s Facebook fan page (seven away from 700 as I type this!).

One of the best things about you, dear readers, is that you talk back. You communicate, you leave comments, you take part in discussions, you share thoughts and experiences, and you even send photos!

Indeed, recently I got some hearts from readers for Love Thursday:

1. MOMA cappuccino from A Friend in California (who has contributed before)
2. Valentine’s Day Egg by Sarah Dallas (sent by Judy of CoffeeJitters–and yes, this really happened on V Day!)
3. Potato Chip Love by Angela in Hollywood, FL
4. Winter Heart from the Amalfi Coast by Laura at Ciao Amalfi!

Thank you, photographers, and

thanks also to everyone else who chips (hah!) in to make BE a lively, fun place!

Happy Love Thursday everyone!

P.S. Mosaic was made at BigHugeLabs.

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One of the best parts about being back in America was that I got to spend time not only with my childhood friends, but also with some of their children. You know, their mini-mes — the ones who look just as you remember your friend looking at that age.

What an amazing experience, especially when the last time I was home some of them didn’t even exist…and now they’re actual people!

My friend Nicole and her husband Nathan (high school sweethearts!) have two daughters, Emma (8 in a couple weeks) and Ava (4), and new baby boy Colton. All ridiculously adorable, I assure you, and at least one of them is a writer/blogger in the making….

Yes, I got a little note on my Facebook page the other day that Emma noticed this in her Pasta Roni:

And it was Thursday.

Don’t you just *love* it?

Happy Love Thursday everyone!

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As you may recall, on my trip to the States I stopped in my old stomping grounds, Philadelphia, to catch some LOVE in LOVE Park.

But you didn’t think I could come all the way from Italy and *not* stop in to pay my respects to one man every single Italian LOVES, did you?

Just in case you weren’t sure this was really the right statue:

And while I was snapping photos, guess what I spied?

After that, I jogged (Mom as my witness!) up the Philadelphia Museum of Art steps just like Rocky so I could check out his footprints:

And stand in them:

FYI: My best guess is that the Italian Stallion wears a size 8.

‘Scuse me…gonna fly now!

Sorry. Couldn’t resist.

Happy Love Thursday everyone!

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I spent a day in Philadelphia on my way “home” to the Coal Region, and of course I had to stop in at LOVE Park. See those gorgeous autumn colors in the background?

I call this “Fall in LOVE Park, Philadelphia”:

I spent many lunch hours and weekend afternoons there many years ago in JFK Plaza, but hadn’t ever taken a photo. So nice to be able to remedy that.

I also had (what I thought was) a fun idea to stand to the side of the statue and put my arms up in the shape of a U to spell out “LOVE U” for Paolo. So I asked my mom to take the photo. She, um, well….

Yes, this was already “straightened” as much as possible in iPhoto.

Eh, it’s the thought that counts.

Happy Love Thursday!

P.S. The photos look much better in Flickr; does anyone know why that is and how I can fix it?

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