We had another wind event yesterday. Cue: my scream. Even Don has had it with this stuff. It’s significantly colder today, but it looks like the warmup will begin at the end of the week. Please? Spring has been officially here for quite a while, but except for my daffodils and the forsythia blooming in the woods, you wouldn’t know it.

• The cup on the left is vinrage Spode and it’s simply beautiful. You can see part of the interior cup artwork – a beetle. I love cups that have not only an exterior design, but an inner one as well. This pattern is Chelsea Bird.

• The silver egg cup that Don and I found in a shop in Paris. I didn’t want him to spend the money, but he insisted. It’s absolutely exquisite. The design is art nouveau. And it’s quite petite. It’s my most valuable egg cup and I’m absolutely sure it currently needs polishing. It tarnishes so quickly.

• A lustreware egg cup – duck/chick carrying the cup on its back.

• A pig preparing to dine on an egg. I love this cup. It was made for Tiffany and is Staffordshire china.

• A little girl in a bunny costume holding on to a cup covered in polkadots. That face kills me! She’s so sweet.

• My first egg cup, given to me by my godparents. It was made for Fanny Farmer. Somehow, I managed to hang on to it for decades. I distinctly remember being back home for a visit when I was in grad school. It was in my grandmother’s trunk and I scooped it up and took it back to Philadelphia. Years and years later, not long after we moved to New York, I saw an article in Martha Stewart Living about egg cups and this particular egg cup was in one of the photos. What? You can collect egg cups??? I started researching egg cups and you know the result.

• This little bunny rabbit is so adorable and she always reminds me of Scout. The white and pink ears, the mischievous expression on her face – let’s face it, it’s Scout in egg cup form.

• A bunny and an egg cup “window” house. (I may have shown you this earlier.)

• A pig with an egg cup on his back.

I’ve not been sleeping well, though I think I caught up on some much needed sleep last night. Oh, for some peace of mind!

Stay safe.

Happy Wednesday.

Well, the snow melted yesterday. It was a bizarre 24 hours here. Today will be warmer. I want to start buying plants for the pots that are on the porch and patio, but it looks like one day – Thursday – will have a low of 31 degrees. I think I could get away with buying some pansies, because they’re very hardy. But I’ll think on it today. Hopefully the forecast will change.

In the meantime, I can start clearing out some of the beds and begin cutting back the perennials from last year. I alway leave them in place over the winter so the birds and bugs have shelter and sustenance.

My best friend Laural is back in the hospital. I got a text from her son David yesterday. She has bacterial pneumonia and she’s being treated with antibiotics. She’s not up to talking, but I did text her as David said she’ll enjoy reading texts. Prayers for my dear friend of over 60 years.

Egg cups!

• A Fanny Farmer egg cup, marked in raised letters on the base. It’s very heavy and was made for Fanny Farmer by the Nelson McCoy company, which eventually evolved into McCoy Pottery. I see this cup out in the wild and the red paint is often damaged or missing. This one is in perfect condition,

• Love this cup – two dogs on either side of the cup, with a design on the rim which seems a bit Art Deco to me.

• I’ve already shown this one in another photo – that’s what I get for using older photos – but it’s a lovely cup with a mom and babies. The cup itself is lustreware.

• A walking ware egg cup.

• This cup was sent to me by a reader. It’s made from a Holland Mold, a mold that was meant to be hand painted and fired by the customer that bought it. It’s signed “L.H.” with the year ’58. It’s quite lovely and it’s also quite tall.

• An adorable bunny with the egg cup on his back.

• A Holt Howard rooster egg cup from 1961.

I’ll probably use two or more photos of the egg cups in each post this week. I may not get them all in before Easter, but I’ll do my best!

Stay safe.

Happy Monday.

This morning:

What the…???

It’s still going on, a mix of snow and rain. It won’t amount to much, but it is  covering the ground this morning. Rain should kick in this afternoon.

In the meantime, will I ever get to clean up the garden beds?

Left to right:

• Cottage Ware by Kensington in England.

• A charming egg cup with a dish for the spoon. Or bits of the shell. I found this at the flea market in Paris.

• Motto ware from Torquay Pottery in England. A lovely gift from a reader of this blog. You can see a charming cottage surrounded by trees. And if you look at the other side of the egg cup…

You see the words “Laid today.”

So darned charming!

I’ve been looking at egg cups on eBay and Etsy. There are at least two wooden egg cups I want, cups I’ve never seen before. I’ve got them bookmarked.

Margaret is a strong woman and she has a positive attitude, which will serve her well during the next few months. Adrian sounded more rested yesterday, which is a relief. Right now, everything is on hold until they can do further surgery on her leg. Yesterday’s surgery involved a piece of glass from her glasses that had embedded itself under her eye – they couldn’t remove it and then stitch it up because it would have pulled her lower eyelid away from her eye, making it impossible to close. So they removed the glass and added some sort of filler.

Prayers continue.

Stay safe.

Happy Saturday.