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?

march photo a day.

I am really obsessed with taking pictures.  Of everything.  I've been taking them probably since the first minute I could correctly hold a camera.  I'm not a great photographer, I've always wanted to take classes or teach myself more about photography - I've just never gotten around to it, but it doesn't really matter all that much to me right now.  The reason I love taking pictures is because I'm always very kind of paranoid of forgetting little moments, or big moments, and the best way I know how to prevent that is just by taking a shot of the scene.  I have loads of pictures on my computer, phone, in boxes and one of my favorite things to do (in the world) is just to randomly go through an album and have each photo bring me back to that moment, that day in which it was taken.

This is a huge reason why I love the iPhone app Instagram.  First - it's on my phone, which means it is always with me.  I can always take a picture or decide to flip through my album to jog some memories.  Second - it has these very pretty filters that you can put your photos through that instantly make any shot look 100x better and more beautiful.  So for someone like me - who knows little to nothing about photography but also loves things to look pretty - it really is a Godsend.

A lot of my Instagram (I'd say a good 50%) is actually pictures of food.  What can I say?  I post what I love.  And everybody knows there's not much I love more than food, especially baking.  But lately my pictures have been a bit more varied because this month I'm doing the March Photo A Day challenge - created by fat mum slim.  I love little memes like this!  I've been having a lot of fun with it. 8 days in and I haven't missed a day yet, I hope & think that'll continue throughout the rest of the month.