Birthday Weekend

My lovely friend Jessica came out to spend my birthday with me!

I've spent her last two birthday weekends with her.

But, in my usual style, I neglected to bring a gift

Although I know she would have appreciated it.

But not Jess.

She came bearing gifts.

She waited with me even though half of our Saturday morning was eaten up with car troubles.

She walked with me to and from the mechanics.

I deleted most of my pictures, but we went to the arch, Crown Candy, out to dinner with friends,

to the Frank Lloyd Wright house

How have I lived here all these years and never been!

Honestly, I don't find Frank's style aesthetically pleasing.

So it was always hard for me to appreciate his genius.

But this tour did such a great job of pointing out just how amazing he was.

The entire building is made up of parallelograms and equilateral triangles.

Even the brick were made in parallelograms.

And imagine the challenge for the contractor to find someone who could make parallelogram bricks!

He is pretty amazing.

We toured other old buildings in St. Louis.

But most of all, I appreciated that she took the time to give me what I appreciate the most:

Good company.