This post is dedicated to the fabulous Little Miss Sunshine State.

A couple of days ago I received an email from blackbird which contained a forwarded email from Little Miss Sunshine State. LMSS had heard that I was going to be visiting Boston, and so she wanted to pass on a recommendation:

Would you tell her that she might like to see the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum http://www.gardnermuseum.org/
while she is in Boston. It is really a little gem, tucked on a side street near the Museum of Fine Arts in the Longwood area.


Well. OH MY.

Thanks to the fabulous LMSS, I spent the first day of 2010 (my birthday) here:


Thank you dear new blog-friend, from the bottom of my heart.