Azaleas, originally uploaded by timbu.

I love spring in Minnesota.

There is something magical about the first few days when you can walk outside in your shirt sleeves, see the trees budding, and feel a warm breeze. This time of year is mild — without humidity or mosquitoes. If it was like this all year round — well I suppose it would be southern California without an ocean.

I wonder if I would still appreciate it the same way if I didn’t have to go through a long winter first.

Vanilla Magnolia Cupcakes, originally uploaded by timbu.

This time I made them with cream cheese frosting.

Here are a few back logged links I’ve been meaning to share.

Waiterrant riffs on Sarte’s “Hell is People” in the post “Heaven & Hell“.

Super cool knit fender guitar.

The BBC wrote about the change in time standards in Sri Lanka. Arthur Clarke a long-time inhabitat of Sri Lanka, is interviewed and photographed with his t-shirt that says, “I invented the satellite and all I got was this lousy t-shirt.”

I’ve heard of travel pillows but this one is a insanely awkward. Serously if my seatmate pulled one of these out and tried to inflate it, I would poke a needle in it as soon as he passed out from trying to blow this thing up.

Craisin Scones, originally uploaded by timbu.

Saturday was my first attempt at scones. They came out pretty good for a first try.

Elise saw her first corpse at a funeral today. When she saw the deceased in repose she asked, “Is that just a sample, so we know what she looked like.” Yes, dear it kind of is.

This ukelele rendition of “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” by Jake Shimabukuro is amazing.

[Link courtesy of via Neatorama.]

What is an ambigram? I ran across a reference to this word on an entry at “The Adventures of Accordion Guy“. Check out the “Love/Hate t-shirt“.

You really have to see these to understand them. Thats where flickr and filmloop come in handy. If you haven’t tried flickr, it is a super cool photo web site where you can upload photos and share them with your friends. Filmloop is a bit of software along with a server that lets you make these little clip/loop like things of photos and then post them on the web.

Here is a loop of ambigramsfound on flickr.

If you want more info on ambigrams check out the Eye Twister web pages hosted at Monash University.

At lunch I heard about a service where you can upload a photo and have the photo printed onto a glossy post card and mailed directly to the address of your choosing. That rawks! I wish I had known about that when I was at Disney World. They will even print and mail one for free. Checkout postCards from the post office, via amazing mail.

If I didn’t even know what the post office was doing, maybe there were other things you could do with a picture that I don’t know about — help me google. I then found Photo Cupcakes — hey, that’s cool too!

Hmm, cupcakes, I like cupcakes — this led me to a blog full of cupcake recipes, which led me to 52 Cupcakes, where there is a new cupcake recipe posted every week.

That is where I found the recipe for Magnolia Bakery Vanilla Cupcakes with Vanilla Buttercream Frosting.

Folk Art – Easter, originally uploaded by timbu.

Just in time for Easter — the culvert cross.

Unisex Handwashing – Chino Latino, originally uploaded by timbu.

I didn’t sneak into the women’s room to snap this photo.

Nope, it’s a unisex hand washing area outside the restrom proper – thanks Chino Latino, it was a first for us.