Wahoo! Wednesday - With emphasis on a new classics series and purple!! I love purple!!

It's Wahoo! Wednesday!!!

I knew you'd be excited. I just knew it. That thing, above, is one of my purple iris buds, close up (and a little enhanced). Isn't it amazing? Definitely a wahoo. I'll share another purple flower picture with you at the end of this post, but first . . . my other wahoos!

1. These covers! I've meant to mention this new classics series for a while because I am totally besotted with the covers and therefore feel like wahooing about them:

Of all the new classics covers that have come out in recent years, none have captured my eye the way these have. They're so appealing, I'm even planning to reread Wuthering Heights -- and I'm one of those people who think Wuthering Heights is terribly unromantic. But, that cover makes me want to give it a second chance. I've been advised to think of it as "gothic", instead of "romantic". I think I'll start with Jane Eyre, though, because it's the title I remember the least. All I really remember is something about a woman in an attic and . . . um. Is there a fire? Well, that's all I can summon from the memory files. And, that's probably wrong.

Also, Jane Eyre is purple (which totally fits today's Wahoo! theme)!! Except, I've been fiddling with my photo and turned the cover a little rosy. That was fun. :)

Anyway, this particular classics line is by Splinter, an imprint of Sterling Books. I found them thanks to a tweet by a Sterling rep and I love, love, loved reading about how the artist created them:

Interview with artist Sara Singh

They have the nice, thick and glossy paper covers with a flap -- like Persephone Books, only shinier -- and high-quality paper. I just want to hug 'em. Seriously, which one first? That is the question. We'll see which one calls to me loudest.

2. Kiddo is home from his sophomore year of college! Wahoo! I am really going to miss him in the fall, when he heads to the University of Mississippi (which is a whole lot farther away) but I am thrilled to have him home and just going to enjoy his presence!!

3. It's raining. I love the sound of rain. On the way home from our celebratory "school's out" dinner (30 miles from home), we got to see a really pretty light show as the storm was moving in from the west, the direction we were headed. Such pretty lightning! And, it wasn't ground lightning, so it was lovely but not scary.

4. This conversation:

Me: I told Chris I was in a deep blue funk, last week, and I was thinking . . . wouldn't Deep Blue Funk be a great band name?

Huz: It probably already is a band name.

Me: Could you look it up on your little wireless smart thingy? [I was driving, at the time of this conversation]

Huz, whipping out mobile device: Click, click, click. Pause. Click, click. There's a book. There's a movie. There's a cocktail. Yep, there's a band in Ash Grove, Missouri. I don't think they're very well known.

Me: Wow, I love the name "Ash Grove".

Huz: It does have a nice ring to it.

5. Did I tell you about my new indoor wind chimes? I've already got outdoor wind chimes and was searching for something colorful to hang over my desk. Not only did I find something beautiful made of recycled bottle glass, but I also have the joy of occasionally getting to see the chimes whacked by my cat. I cannot tell you how delightful that is. I never know when she's going to hit them and don't have a photo of her doing so, but here are the chimes:

I'll continue to try to capture that moment when the little white paw smacks the bottle. It's such a hoot.

That's all for today, except for that last flash of purple:

What are you wahooing about, this week?

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