the gift of lunch

i'm being seduced by bento!

here at this bento virtuosa's site, i could get lost for hours in the carrot flowers. i've always had a weakness for the compartmentalized lunch, but now i want to start making my own. sophie will be glad, because i sure have gotten lazy in the last couple of years.



here are more, a little higher on the adorable scale:










now i remember one of the reasons why i wanted to be japanese so badly when i was a girl. i was so envious of my japanese friends' bento!






















there are about 10,000 pictures of bento on flickr.

but i really liked dhania's collection of the 121 bento boxes she has made for her husband.









this is one of them:


let's all make bento, i say.