Look! Real blossom! Growing things!
The other day, when I said The alders are doing that feathery thing, a couple of people asked what I meant. I…
Read moreThe other day, when I said The alders are doing that feathery thing, a couple of people asked what I meant. I…
Read moreNASA image via Wikipedia I woke up this morning to snow. Just a pretty dusting but, still: snow. Yet last week the…
Read moreI’ve had a wonderful first 36 hours of 2011. It began with two delicious bottles of Champagne: our last bottle of Krug,…
Read moreSo the kerbs are starting the year well: The chives (out of frame) are tall and skinny, supercilious and supermodel-y. The basil,…
Read moreI got a bit obsessed with plant-based lifeforms this year: the trees in the ravine, the garden, the pot herbs on the…
Read moreThis is what I saw when I sat down, bleary-eyed this morning, for my tea: This, O People of the Northwest, is…
Read moreNot a new band name, sadly. Nope, we’re in the middle of a Pineapple Express. Under the house, the sump pump is…
Read moreThanksgiving morning: a closeup of the icicle frozen in mid-pour over the rhododendron bush outside Kelley’s office. For some reason it pleased…
Read moreSo here’s a shot of the garden outside my office window Sunday morning. (Taken through a screened and shut double-paned window therefore…
Read moreThis is the screen shot from my iGoogle yesterday afternoon. Clear and simple. The morning, though, was beautiful and strange: slate grey…
Read moreEvery autumn I take photos of the sherbet-coloured leaves on the trees outside my office window. Every autumn I end up with…
Read moreI’m still very tired, but that’s about what I expected at this stage. The best thing I can report is that nothing…
Read moreA melancholy, rainy day here in Seattle. But briefly this afternoon the clouds thinned to gauze and the garden blazed. I took…
Read moreKOMOnews.com Look at the forecast. Look at the icon for my birthday: an unadorned round shining sun. I am gasping with disbelief…
Read moreKOMOnews.com Look at that weather forecast: some sun every day, even into October. If it turns out to be true, this will…
Read moreHere are photos from two morning this week. The first (taken by Kelley) is mist over the ravine, on what turned out…
Read moreYesterday began draped in mist. I stood outside in my sweater, tea in one hand, and listened to the trees in the…
Read moreIt’s a lovely sunny day here. Perfect. Yesterday it rained. All day. Hard. Tomorrow it will be too hot. By the weekend…
Read moreI got back from Los Angeles on Sunday. It went well. Very well. I miss everyone already, all those brilliant, beautiful new…
Read more…except, eh, the mist evaporated by the time I got out there with the camera. But here’s the photo anyway–the dill is…
Read moreI spent most of yesterday eating. Nectarines, cherries, raspberries, all with lashings of thick thick thick fresh fresh fresh cream. I just…
Read moreThe Althingi, Iceland’s parliament, has just voted unanimously for same-sex marriage. Unanimously. This makes me happy. In case you’ve forgotten, Iceland is…
Read moreI’ve been sitting on the deck in the sun, watching, listening, comparing today’s garden and ravine sights and sounds with those of…
Read moreFirst, it rained (note wet deck). Then it shone (note wet shiny deck with genuine shadows). Blue skies. Birds singing. Green-tipped buds…
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