This is merely a comment, not a complaint! I so enjoy sitting here in the sun with heat warming my arms and face. I do not mind getting lines around my eyes from squinting against the glare as those lines are evidence of laughter and sunshine! Guilty of both!
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The google.com blogspot was down for maintenance last night so if you had problems accessing the site or posting comments, that might be the reason why. I have not noticed any changes or improvements to the site so the work done must have been quite behind the scenes. Sometimes google will make changes to the page that opens first, and when they do change it, the reader looks at it like, "Hmm, this looks different....is it?"
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Joanne poked her nose in to declare that her phone has simply been ringing off the hook, an expression few will understand much longer as more folks go cellular vs. home phone. Her clients, present and future, are trying to kill her, she claims, but it is her own fault for being such an excellent Realtor! It is amazing how busy she is in this depressed market with both listings AND sales, and I am so glad for her! She was out of this area for nearly six months taking care of her dad and his home in Kalamazoo, came back and has picked up where she left off without missing a beat. Praise be to God for that! She even has buyers for the condos further south of here that are going into foreclosure. Those will be difficult to close due to the foreclosure red tape, but folks are getting this waterfront property for fifty cents on the dollar.....hmmmmm. She did not come home last night until well after 9:00 pm and is already off this a.m.
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Today brings concentration on preparations for the Ladies' Group Brunch, as I am in charge of publicity and for bringing Linda! I printed off labels to afix to foam hearts picked up from Michael's, so I can distribute them Sunday to the female members not normally participants in Ladies' Group. We are planning this event primarily to feel people out regarding their interest and future involvement in Ladies' Group and to stir interest that might not be there!
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Kathy B. and I had a wonderful evening together, enjoying a light dinner at TGIF before heading to the movies to see "Last Chance Harvey". It was a very nice movie with a happy ending but only a little tears. "Harvey" is played by Dustin Hoffman, a forlorn musician who instead of playing jazz piano for his living is playing jingles for advertisements. He is headed to London for his daughter's wedding and has to face the fact that he is an embarrassment to his remarried former wife and his daughter. It tugged the heart strings to see how he is either intentionally or unintentionally shunned by the others at the wedding functions, even having to stay at a hotel separate from all the others.
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Harvey struck up a friendship with a woman who was also "alone", whom he met at the airport, and they end up as a couple. Harvey has made all sorts of compromises in his life, without a whole lot of character development we don't know what all transpired, but now finds himself at a crossroad with his new friend, Kate. Kate insists that he attend his daughter's wedding reception no matter what, and she agrees to join him. At the reception, he gives a very gracious toast, not at all what the family was expecting, and yields to the daughter's step-dad. He admits that he stunk as a father and husband, and thanks the step-dad for stepping in where he failed. Harvey grew up in one weekend's time! I recommend it, especially if you like this type of movie, a "Hallmark" movie, as Olivia refers to them. No slashing took place in the making of this movie! Oh, wait, let me take that back......a side story has a Polish butcher living next door to Kate's mother....
My namesake cafe and apartments in Santorini! Justin and I found this place, which overlooks the bay, in 2004, again in 2006, and then I went back in 2007 with my new friends!
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BUT, what nearly took me out of my seat were the previews of upcoming movies!!!! Nia Vardalas, from "My Big, Fat Greek Wedding" is in a movie where she takes a job as a tour guide in Greece and is called "My Life in Ruins". I saw the windmills in Mykonos and the acropolis and parthenon in Athens, and the blue doors of Santorini....................I cannot wait! I cannot wait!!!!!
These are the famous windmills usually shown in movies about Greece, these being the row of five that line the banks along the bay at Mykonos. It is incredibly windy up here, which is why the windmills existed at this site. Only on very special occasions do the Greeks put the sails on the arms because they are fragile and not meant to be working any longer. 
At this point, looking back over the village, Justin and I are heading toward the bus which will take us to the ship. He had to drag me kicking and screaming back to the bus area by prompting me with going to Santorini on our next stop.....
The blues are bluer here than anywhere else I have been and look especially so against the whitewashed buildings, this one a Greek Orthodox church.
At Little Venice in Mykonos, Justin and I sat along the wall of the outdoor dining cafe and were joyfully splashed as we ate! I got this vase of flowers to pose for me, as Justin kept saying, "Work it, work it, work it" like they do for live models! He is so funny!
Whoosh! Here comes a big wave! In my physical scrapbook I have a progression of the waves coming in, hitting the breakwater, splashing into the air and then recoiling to strike again! It is romantic to sit here, not in the "normal" sense, but in the sense of the experience. 
Not exactly the ruins of Greece, this is a photo of Justin taken standing amid the ruins of Pompeii, where he was able to locate an address of a structure he studied about in Latin class. This class is what stimulated his fondness for things ancient (me included!), the art,history, mythology and such that make up the Mediterranean region. 
