inspired by birdie

• animal: sea otter
• artist: Henri Matisse
• author: Barbara Kingsolver
• band: Death Cab for Cutie & The 1975
• beer: Guinness in winter, Corona with lime in summer
• bird: great blue heron
• book: Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
• cake: marbled chocolate + vanilla
• cat: calico
• cheese: feta
• chocolate: milk chocolate with caramel; white chocolate with raspberry ganache
• classical piece: Tchaikovsky, Nutcracker Op. 71, Act 1, 8-9
• cocktail: Aperol spritz in summer, extra dirty martini in winter or a painkiller year round
• coffee: hot with a splash of half-and-half; iced with hazelnut syrup and cream
• color: lavender
• dessert: key lime pie
• director: David Fincher
• element: water
• eye color: brown
• fabric: linen
• film: Juno (2007, dir. Jason Reitman)
• flower: poppy
• food: beef stew with mashed potatoes
• fruit: peach
• gelato: raspberry
• gemstone: pearl
• ice cream flavor: coffee
• insect: ladybug
• month: May
• mythological figure: Aphrodite
• nail polish: Essie 'geranium'
• number: 8 & 97
• painting: Edward Hopper's Nighthawks
• perfume: Glossier 'you'
• play: Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest
• podcast: Revelatorium
• poem: C.P. Cavafy's Ithaka
• poet: Mary Oliver
• scent: peppermint oil
• season: spring
• singer: Maisie Peters & Maggie Rogers
• song: The Rolling Stones' Beast of Burden
• tea: pomegranate green tea
• television series: The West Wing & Bridgerton
• vegetable: broccolini & green beans
• video game: Supergiant's Hades