Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Last year I worked on a project with a friend who is an avid gardener. I took a bunch of photos of her garden at different times of the year so she could have visual evidence to support her writing. She is planning a book about her gardening processes.
Her garden was interesting and [...]
I was in Puerto Vallarta for Día de Muertos last year. Richard and Jen and I took a cab at sundown to a nearby cemetery to see the celebration. We wandered through the cemetery, looking at all the plastic-wrapped decorations, flowers, and candles. I saw only a couple other gringos there. After [...]
Thursday, October 25, 2007
I’m ecstatic– I got up early this morning to photograph the moon setting over the Aurora bridge, and those shots didn’t turn out– but after the sun rose, I saw a great blue heron sitting at the top of the big tree down the hill from me! A crow was very angry at the [...]
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
It was almost this time last year when I went to Puerto Vallarta with a group of friends. I’ve been wistfully reminiscing. We rented a house in a residential area that had a pool and an amazing view of La Zona Romantica. I had never been on a “tropical paradise” vacation before… [...]
Thursday, October 18, 2007
I managed to get up early enough this week to take some pictures of the sun rising over Queen Anne. It wasn’t on purpose; Richard’s been up early every morning the past couple of weeks on conference calls, and I just happened to wake up and stumble out into the living room as the [...]
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
As a child I used to be fascinated by nightshade berries. They looked so edible– translucent, multi-colored, juicy, tiny jewels. I was told they were poisonous. It turns out they’re closer to “non edible” than “poisonous” (meaning they taste bad but won’t actually hurt you).
In Seattle, the plant grows everywhere– in waste [...]
I have previously mentioned the primary love of my life, my husband, Richard. Now I will introduce you to another love, my cat Newps. His full name is Newpimp Dave Weedfluid. According to popular legend, he is not actually a cat, but a type of animal called a “newpimp”, and his real [...]
So, several orders of business today.
My husband is racing his first season of cyclocross. Cyclocross is a terribly, terribly awesome sport in which cyclists dismount their bikes to carry them over hurdles, run their bikes up big sandy hills, slog through mud, avoid maddened hornets, crash into each other, get lost, dress funny, etc. [...]