lemon cupcakes with blueberry buttercream frosting

The weather around here the past couple of weeks has been totally delicious.  I love the cold winter temperatures, and the boots and pea coats that come along with it, but after a few months of freezing cold the 60s & sunny has been a welcome change of pace.  The shift in weather and temperatures brings a nice change in food preferences along with it (I really can find a way to relate everything back to food).  I go from craving pasta with heavy sauces, soups, and hot drinks to wanting light salads, fresh crunchy vegetables and nice iced coffees.  As far as dessert goes I become obsessed with basically anything fresh & bright, like peaches and lemons and berries.  So when thinking about what I was going to bake for Easter this year, it didn't take much time to settle on the flavor combo that I wanted.  A few weeks ago one of my favorite people in the world, Mandie, made a delicious Blueberry Lemon Tea Cake and from the moment I ate three slices of it I have not been able to get the flavor combination out of my mind.  Lemon and blueberry it was!  The hardest part was deciding what form the flavors would take...a layer cake, a bundt cake, scones?