Thursday...

So cold today! How did that happen?

First, I helped maaseru clean out her fridge. Then I had a mammogram. (Ugh.) Then I walked from Preston and Carling to Bank and Grove, via the Bronson St. bridge, and did a workout at Curves. Then I walked along the Rideau River to Lees Avenue, and home over the Pretoria Bridge.

The Rideau Canal from the Bronson Bridge, as it looked today around noon:



Nice walk, but so cold. I saw some ducks huddled in the grass, as is that would help, all bundled into their own feathers. And the lilacs! Caught in half-bloom, with no scent at all.

This isn't spring. I'm not sure what it is, but it certainly isn't spring.

Shawarma

This item about places selling out of shawarma made me smile.

Maybe I'll have a shawarma over the weekend. Or even tomorrow, when I'm having lunch with gamergrrl. Yeah, that would be good.

Movies and books have often made me crave certain foods, or want to eat foods I never liked before. I wouldn't eat mushrooms until I got hooked on them at the age of fifteen, when I read Lord of the Rings. Yeah, mention a food in a movie or TV show, and I'm likely to want it.

30 Days of Marvel: Day 15: Favorite Marvel movie actress

30 Days of Marvel: Day 15: Favorite Marvel movie actress

Oh, goodie, an easy one.

Scarlett Johansson as Natasha Romanoff, the Black Widow, in Iron Man and The Avengers.



I've always loved the Black Widow in the comics. It's a joy to see her well depicted in the movies.

This is a strong contrast to most - perhaps all - of the other female superheroes I have loved over the decades, who are so disappointingly portrayed in the movies (if they are featured at all) that it spoils my enjoyment of those movies.

If I were to choose my second favourite Marvel movies actress, it would have to be Gwyneth Paltrow as Pepper Potts, in the same movies.

In tribute...

fairestcat alerted me to this from Dira's Tumblr: The Avengers, as if drawn by Maurice Sendak:



From ~agarthanguide's site on DeviantArt.