Why I Need to Live in a Forest, Reason 82: I want to listen to birds, and am easily distracted by people’s admittedly mild volume. Boo, I’m going for a bike ride and then to get some chocolate. For it is again time to make the consummate Magnolia Bakery peanut butter cookies, graciously brought to us by Smitten Kitchen.

This felt pillow by Llubav Choy Duer (via design*sponge) is for me especially nice because it seems so accessible. The right degrees of simple and fancy, and not too delicate. 

tori bag by minä perhonen—I typed w in my browser and the url popped up, but I don’t remember having visited it recently, though I do recall saving and failing to label some images months ago from Hello Sandwich and ii-ne-kore. Little serendipities!

Tallgrass prairie in Kansas (via the US National Archives flickr)—what a wealth of history and inspiration in all the national and state archives’ and museums’ flickrs. I like reading historial journalism, especially in the disasters category (why, self?), and these help immensely as far as envisioning people and places and events of really-not-that-long-ago.