Birthday redux

Well, my birthday was great. Low-key and lovely. There was lunch from Whole Foods. A long trip to the dog park, where Montana played remarkably well with the other dogs (a small incident where she got knocked over by two labs stampeding after a tennis ball notwithstanding). Tons of Facebook messages and emails and phone calls and snail mail cards.

There was yummy Mexican at a hole-in-the-wall place that came highly recommended, and rightfully so. There was a delicious, if slightly too sweet, chocolate raspberry cake from Whole Foods.

There was a purple flower arrangement from Torsten:


And this book, also from Torsten:


(And, not birthday-related, although birthday-posted, there's a new post over at Not a Diet.)

And of course, there was, and continues to be, this amazing doggie:


All in all, a perfect day.