Test kitchen

Caramelized onion, blue cheese and fig strudel (with spinach and strawberry salad) Baked this up for dinner tonight to make sure it would work out for book club on Tuesday. It’s a go.

Fiddles and a banjo

Up close and personal with catmint We went to the new Forest Hills Fine Arts Center last night to catch Alison Brown and her quartet. It’s a great venue since basically every seat gives you a good view of the stage and the performers. Very intimate. The opening act was […]

Waking up

Our garden hose Rainy Saturday morning. Belly full of waffles and chocolate milk. Smell of coffee drifting upstairs. I love this poem. Thanks, Christine, for posting it.

What a difference a camera makes

Another perspective of the crabapple tree Just five hours into it and I’m very, very happy with my new camera. The difference in the photos is striking. Although I have a lot to learn. It’s a heck of a lot different than regular digital. But I have plenty of time […]

Of tulips and Friends

I am SO buying these tulips again this year Is it possible that I really took 52 photos in the span of 12 minutes? And my husband doesn’t want me to get the new camera. (As if it wouldn’t get plenty of use, honey.) Now back to the tulips…I actually […]

Lucifer II

Vase crafted by Mary Doezema; flowers from Fruitbasket Flowerland I have a strange cat. A naughty cat. Her name is Lucy. She eats things that I think most cats just wouldn’t. Like socks. Sweaters. Underwear. Beware anyone who leaves clothing out and about in our home: you may very well […]

Company’s coming

Smooth I’m not a fan of whipping up stuff out of a box (or a packet in this case), but when company’s coming and there just wasn’t enough time to make a proper cheesecake, Chocolate Eclair Cheesecake Mix will just have to do.

The little things

Rooster art I picked up in Chicago last Memorial Day weekend There are certain things that really bring home the realization that your own problems are very tiny. Maybe you hear about a tragedy on the news or, in my case, you know a person who’s experiencing something very devastating. […]

In bloom

Flowers of a crabapple tree that graces our front yard We moved into our house in June, when summer was more or less already in swing. It was the following spring, as we were driving around from here to there, that I began to notice all of these beautiful flowering […]