Oyster Rama Weekend
About a month ago, a late night email arrived with the idea to head to the Hood Canal for some oysters. Hama Hama, a vendor at the University and Ballard farmer’s market was advertising a festival on...
View ArticleThe Garden Grows In: Spring 2012
Heading into our fifth full year in the garden, it has become time to start thinking about thinning some plants, pruning shrubs, and moving things around as the light has begun to change. I love...
View ArticleMother’s Day Again…
I certainly did like third grade, but it is hard to imagine thanking someone for sending me to school. Cookies and stuff after school, sure THANKS! But for sending me there? Are you kidding? I was a...
View ArticleTime for New Cleats
I was in Nova Scotia the first time I needed new cleats. It had never crossed my mind that these little bits of metal on the bottom of my shoe could possibly wear out. I just assumed my pedal was...
View ArticleCycles of Life
I picked this up from Gwadzilla who blogs on cycling in DC. I’d not seen Grant Snider’s work before, but found this cartoon packed with a good humored dose of truism and sweetness. And those colors!...
View ArticleOhio: Not Terrible
Oh let’s get real. We can be awful snobs living here in Seattle. What do I know about “Flyover Country”? Not much. It’s a land of gigantic people eating cheap feedlot beef, sausages, and packaged...
View ArticleFarewell Rabbits!
I love rabbits. When we moved to our house, I knew we’d have rabbits. I wanted another Owen. It took a a year and a bit of wily behavior on my part to make that reality, but then Pops came into our...
View ArticleAsters
Over six feet tall, our late-blooming asters make a big visual statement with the last of the rudbeckia and echinacea in our fall garden. The bees love them. I always forget how much I love them. I...
View ArticleFirst Weekend with a Westy
I am ready for a camper van. However camper vans are expensive and old, so we were lucky to have neighbors lend us theirs to see what it might be like to actually have our own. It didn’t have much...
View ArticleGift from Yokohama
I’ve always loved the entrance to Seward Park. After all these years of admiring it with its lovely Japanese lanterns, the mossy stones, a nice collection of plants, I learned by getting off my bike...
View ArticleAn Early Spring?
We had a very mild winter, with the snow becoming less likely with each passing day. The chickens have started laying again and this is as early as I ever recall seeing the crocus up.
View ArticleStreet Art in Buenos Aires
We’re staying in Villa Crespa, several blocks south of the city’s trendiest neighborhood, in blocks made up of workshops, small bodegas, and I imagine, many stylish homes hidden behind run-down single...
View ArticleThe Dead and the Living at Recoleta Cemetery
Saturday we made our first trip over to the Recoleta District. It neighbors Palermo, but we’d only zipped under it on the Subte on our trips to the center. We had a couple tourist things in mind: the...
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