Aug 29
I was out working in my garden yesterday, trying to get it semi-tidy before the autumn rains set in. I know it’s still August, but the chilly wind and low-angle sunlight made it feel like fall. (Fall and spring have always been my favorite seasons. Thus me moving out to the Pacific Northwest rather than …
Jan 04
On Sunday, I went to the Farmer’s Market in Ballard and bought $10 worth of fresh and hopefully delicious beets. They’re fairly late-season beets, but they still looked pretty good to me. There are red Detroit beets, golden beets, Chiogga beets, and a ”Cylindrical beet” shown here. I decided to use one of a few different …
Jan 02
It was a sunny day in Seattle. I spent much of the afternoon wandering around the streets of Ballard possessed of that psychotic happiness and goodwill that comes from sudden sunlight after too many gray skies. I smiled at people. Sometimes they smiled back, with eye contact and everything. There was a man who wished …