Fulbright Scholar

I had every intention tonight to do a post with the promised images of Helen Dillon's summer garden.

But then I got the news.

 And then I started celebrating and dispensed with the notion of being even remotely productive.

BECAUSE...

My wonderful, brilliant, open-to-everything, tenacious, intellectually insatiable son

had just been notified that he had been named


I tried to find an appropriate picture of my boy to accompany this post...

but came across this one...

And decided it was more appropriate...because truly...it takes
a village to make a Fulbright Scholar (read about the program here)...and this is the village

that made THIS one...(he is on the far left.)