{"id":13724,"date":"2025-05-06T17:14:21","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T22:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/?p=13724"},"modified":"2025-05-06T17:14:21","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T22:14:21","slug":"spring-y","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/06\/spring-y\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring-y"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s that gorgeous time of year when everything is green and blooming. And half the time you love it and half the time there&#8217;s a little voice whispering, &#8220;I&#8217;m not ready&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I do have a crop (haha) of spring at least adjacent pictures.<\/p>\n<p>Our already almost done lilacs.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 50%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-13724 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-full'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/06\/spring-y\/almostdeadlilacs2\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"488\" height=\"650\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/almostdeadlilacs2.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/almostdeadlilacs2.jpg 488w, https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/almostdeadlilacs2-113x150.jpg 113w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 488px) 100vw, 488px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/06\/spring-y\/almostdeadlilacs\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"488\" height=\"650\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/almostdeadlilacs.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/almostdeadlilacs.jpg 488w, https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/almostdeadlilacs-113x150.jpg 113w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 488px) 100vw, 488px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Welham&#8217;s tree, also in the banner above at the time of this writing; might be gone by the time you come back.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-2 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-2 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 50%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-2 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-2 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-2' class='gallery galleryid-13724 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-full'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/06\/spring-y\/welhamstree2\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"537\" height=\"650\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/welhamstree2.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/welhamstree2.jpg 537w, https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/welhamstree2-124x150.jpg 124w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 537px) 100vw, 537px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/06\/spring-y\/welhamstree\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"523\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/welhamstree.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/welhamstree.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/welhamstree-150x121.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>We went to Chicago on Sunday and tried out a new bakery, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodambler.com\/\">Good Ambler<\/a>. It&#8217;s perfectly OK &#8211; near the train, room to sit, nice food, good coffee, clean bathrooms. It&#8217;s the lobby of a corporate headquarters, Mondelez. Kraft split off Modelez in some way that was profitable for them, like 10 or 15 years ago, and ironically for an artisan bakery, Mondelez is a bunch of formerly Kraft brands like Chips Ahoy! and Honey Maid and Oreos. Oh, and Good Ambler has gourmet chocolates, and Mondelez owns Cadbury.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13721\" style=\"width: 498px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13721\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13721\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/amblercroissant.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"488\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/amblercroissant.jpg 488w, https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/amblercroissant-113x150.jpg 113w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 488px) 100vw, 488px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-13721\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ham &amp; cheese croissant<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_13717\" style=\"width: 624px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13717\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13717\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/amblerquiche.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"614\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/amblerquiche.jpg 614w, https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/amblerquiche-142x150.jpg 142w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-13717\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Quiche Lorraine with salad<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_13720\" style=\"width: 498px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13720\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13720\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/amblertable.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"488\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/amblertable.jpg 488w, https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/amblertable-113x150.jpg 113w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 488px) 100vw, 488px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-13720\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Almond coffee cake and glimpses of the other things<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On Friday night we went to the <a href=\"https:\/\/wisconsintriennial.org\/\">Wisconsin Triennial<\/a>. Mark was a bit grumpy, I think due to his cold, and pronounced the show weak. Personally, I had trouble finding the labels, and I&#8217;m a highly experienced museum goer.&nbsp; Hell, I&#8217;ve written exhibition labels. They were kind of hard to find. Mark had a several other criticisms (cold) but also wondered of artists were unwilling to submit due to continuing anger at MMoCA, related to the controversy around <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/wisconsin-triennial-artists-accuse-mmoca-racism-1234637308\/\">MMoCA&#8217;s treatment of a Black woman artist<\/a> at the last Triennial. Could be.<\/p>\n<p>I took pictures of the ones that I liked, but there&#8217;s more info on the <a href=\"https:\/\/wisconsintriennial.org\/\">Triennial site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13678\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13678\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13678\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/madonnas.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"378\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/madonnas.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/madonnas-150x87.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-13678\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gerit Grimm, Installation: Mary and Child, Stella Maris, Star of the Sea, Mary of the Garden, Madonna, Flora. 2025<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_13677\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13677\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13677\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/tomantell.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"474\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/tomantell.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/tomantell-150x109.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-13677\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thomas Antell, The Pipestone Indian Training School and the Great Flood of 1912, 2025.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_13675\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13675\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/inevitable.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"509\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/inevitable.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/inevitable-150x117.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-13675\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kelli Hoppmann, The Inevitable, 2024.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_13676\" style=\"width: 464px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13676\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13676\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/needleworkselfportrait.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"454\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/needleworkselfportrait.jpg 454w, https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/needleworkselfportrait-105x150.jpg 105w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 454px) 100vw, 454px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-13676\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yeonhee Cheong, Farewell My Bittersweet Glory, 2024.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I also liked <a href=\"https:\/\/wisconsintriennial.org\/theresa-abel\/\">Teresa Abel&#8217;s The Stone Path<\/a>, but there was a group of people plunked in front of it talking and I couldn&#8217;t get a picture. And <a href=\"https:\/\/wisconsintriennial.org\/tom-jones\/\">Tom Jones&#8217; <em>Levi Blackdeer<\/em><\/a>, 2023, that really had pride of place in the gallery, right in front of you as you walked in, but also hard to get a picture due to crowds.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday Al &amp; Emma &amp; Jasper came over for an alternate Mothers&#8217; Day brunch because we will be in Lancaster PA for Mark&#8217;s brother&#8217;s and sister-in-law&#8217;s 80th birthday on real Mothers&#8217; Day. I made cinnamon rolls and a big fruit salad and scrambled eggs and bacon, and I picked up a dozen bagels from Gotham. Which was too much. I also scrambled enough eggs for 5 people, but one 2 1\/2 year old and 4 adults including Al who eats a prescribed diet &#8211; he had black coffee and a strip of red pepper &#8211; is not the same as 5 people. I think we ate about three bagels between us, but Emma took a bunch home. And we ate leftover eggs and bacon with new toast on Monday night for dinner.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13673\" style=\"width: 518px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13673\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13673\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/cinnamonsugarcimmybuns2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"508\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/cinnamonsugarcimmybuns2.jpg 508w, https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/cinnamonsugarcimmybuns2-117x150.jpg 117w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 508px) 100vw, 508px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-13673\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cinnamon sugar cimmy buns<\/p><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13679\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/cinnamonsugarcimmybuns3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"594\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/cinnamonsugarcimmybuns3.jpg 594w, https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/cinnamonsugarcimmybuns3-137x150.jpg 137w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And we also bought some spring-y bouquets at the market, and gave one to Emma to take home.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13716\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/premomflowers3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"488\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/premomflowers3.jpg 488w, https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/premomflowers3-113x150.jpg 113w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 488px) 100vw, 488px\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s that gorgeous time of year when everything is green and blooming. And half the time you love it and half the time there&#8217;s a little voice whispering, &#8220;I&#8217;m not ready&#8221;. I do have a crop (haha) of spring at least adjacent pictures. Our already almost done lilacs. Welham&#8217;s tree, also in the banner above &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/06\/spring-y\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13725,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[77,84,152],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-ds83473gmail-com","4":"post-13724","6":"format-standard","7":"has-post-thumbnail","8":"category-blogpost","9":"post_tag-brunch","10":"post_tag-farmers-market","11":"post_tag-spring-flowers"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13724"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13733,"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13724\/revisions\/13733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}