Lost and found, spooky tree and orzo salad

- This lovely bouquet was an impulse buy at Whole Foods over the weekend - I was quite dazzled by the array of bouquets and just had to buy one.  Sometime during the drive home, I was changing out CDs for the audiobook I'm listening to and dropped one between the seats.  And look what I found when I looked under the front seat to retrieve it - the eyebrow / eyeliner pencil there on the left.  It is a great one and I thought it was lost forever. (It photo bombed the flower photo so ended up in the post, as well.)  :)

- I titled this photo "Spooky Tree".  It was a dreary morning for a walk on Saturday, but friend Laura and I forged ahead anyway, despite the drizzle, at the humorously named (I think anyway) Mountain Park Park.  (It's a park within the nearby community of Mountain Park.)  Click to enlarge - I love that someone hung a bird house on this enormous tree, which is showing its spring foliage after a winter rest.

- On Sunday morning I was thinking the day stretched ahead of me without much to do and then remembered the luncheon at church, for which I had promised to bring a salad.  I looked in my pantry and spotted whole wheat orzo and Googled "orzo salad".  This one came up first - the Pioneer Woman's Mediterranean Orzo Salad.  I was pleased that I had every ingredient called for (except for fresh parsley - I substituted fresh spinach.)  It was a hit!  And it made a good desk lunch on Monday.  This one is a keeper, I think.