Very good performances all around, especially by Sophie Okonedo as May Boatwright. It may have been that I was tired, but I found this movie to be a little slow. But it’s not often you get such a good cast, so it wasn’t the worst thing.
Cost: free (work-sponsored Netfix subscription)
Where watched: at home.
poster from: http://www.impawards.com/2008/secret_life_of_bees.html
I was tasked with the cake making, so I made Vintage Cakes‘s Daffodil Cake. It’s a marbled chiffon/angel food cake with lime zest and a lime glaze.
My “Easter bunny” gift this year was asparagus. 
A friend posted a retrospective of Hilda illustrations (article also here) on Facebook and I excitedly told her about the the one that had been hanging in my grandparents’-now-aunt’s house since before I was born. And here it is! I’ve always loved this illustration. And in the second link above, there is a different version of this with a washcloth over her nipples. I’d always wondered where her nipples had gotten to.
Back to Easter. The table is full of delicious treats.
And we had a good variety of things for dinner too! 
