Summer is when you’re supposed to garden, yes? But it’s also when it gets really, really hot. Planting, weed-pulling and other such tasks just don’t seem as much fun when it’s 90 degrees and humid outside. Today was one of the cooler days of the last couple of weeks. (We’ve […]
Repeat after me…YUM!
I rarely eat out. You wouldn’t know it from the past several days, though! Dev and I were famished after the Children’s Museum on Sunday so we grabbed a bite at San Chez. That would be the berry risotto above. Creamy! On Tuesday I had lunch with Edris and Chelsea […]
Possibly a few too many raspberries
The recipe called for two cups of raspberries. I didn’t feel like measuring so I dumped the whole bag in. A few of them ended up more berry than muffin. That can’t be a bad thing, can it?
The sparkle is over
Just a smattering of photos from last night. We had a small family fireworks display on the sidewalk, then tried in vain to view the Reeds Lake fireworks from our traditional vantage point across the street. But a four-story retirement community has been erected since our last celebration, and it […]
The blooms have arrived!
Last year my hollyhock plant shot up big and bold — but without any flowers. Just big, bushy green leaves. Not that I have anything against leaves. It’s just that the whole appeal of the hollyhock plant is the flowers that burst open on the various branches. Otherwise, it’s more […]
Meet my second child
We don’t have many kids in our neighborhood. Parents have kids and move out before they hit school age so they can avoid sending them to our public schools (which have a pretty low graduation rate). We have two under two nearby and a nine-year-old and his three younger sibs […]
Number 5,339
I’ve had my D90 for nearly a year now. Two months shy of the date. It’s funny sometimes to look at the counter and see so many thousands of photos that have been taken. Some people think I’m insane, but I think most photography-minded people probably see the sense in […]
The fruits (er, vegetables) of our labor
Nearly two months later and we’re getting some real production. Although the seeds we planted didn’t all come to fruition. In fact, only three of the pea plants are really amounting to much from the two rows we allotted. And the lettuce and spinach? The bunnies, adorable little critters with […]
Ever so belated
Last Wednesday was our anniversary. Nine years and we haven’t strangled each other! I was recovering from my three-day volunteer stint for Festival and feeling in a non-camera mood last week, so I’ve been lax on the updates. I did, however, recruit a shorter member of our family to snap […]
OK…just a couple more
She’s so darn adorable. I took dozens of photos, of course. So I had to share two more. It doesn’t hurt that Fiona’s house has a big, beautiful window in the living room. I’d kill for that kind of light in my house!
We made a new friend
Isn’t she sweet? And so, so tiny. As of the photo, she hadn’t been christened. I’ve since discovered that Dev’s buddy decided on the name Aglet. That would be the name of the little plastic thing on the end of your shoelace. Creative, eh? Dev was so gentle with her. […]