Supervising peas…

Joon gets very excited every January when we start drooling over this seasons’ possibilities from our seed catalogs. The seeds arrive in early February and Joon is always ready to help sort and open seed packets… Undeterred by his lack of thumbs, Joon Kitty opens and I do the rest of the … Read More

a new day everyday

  For many years now, five or six mornings a week I walk this stretch of beach. At about the same time every morning, depending on the season; 7:30-ish after we “spring ahead”, 8:00-ish after we “fall behind”. The dogs and I  and maybe a friend or two. We witness waking, The blanket … Read More

Egg o nomics 2018

  It’s eggstraordinary. There are simply not enough fresh from the nest Vashon eggs. According to the USDA Egg Market News Report, Americans eat an average of 268.4 eggs per year. With 10,624 residents on Vashon Island as of 2010 census, we need 2,684,000 eggs per year. According to another report from … Read More

Palermo

Qlitz and Squalor and everything in between is compacted into Palermo. Mom and I ran head on into our own prejudice, fear and bias in an instant of being dropped off by our taxi driver in a ghetto near an open air market in the middle of Palermo center. The driver, unable … Read More

Emilia-Romagna

Alessandro was our Emilia Romagna guide for the day, charming, funny, smart and had the most melodic voice as he told us the how and why of Parmigiano, Balsamic and Prosciutto. I could fill a warehouse with all the photos and video of our day, but I will save you that suffering … Read More

First Stop- Bologna

I had this grand idea of a daily photo and musings chronicle of our trip to italy. So many things often work so much better in my imagination. On a good day, I am a dweeb in the world of technology; internet connection, cell data, roaming, hotspots, data vs. internet, global wifi, Vodafone, AAARRGH! … Read More

Coming Home to Sicily

Like walking into a favorite story book, I will enter the property of author-chef Fabrizia Lanza having soaked up all of the food and place photos of one of my favorite cookbooks of the past 10 years. I will arrive at The Anna Tasca Lanza Cooking School for a week of harvesting … Read More

Spiteful Spring

We get a warm, sunny, Sunday. End of story. Oh, I almost forgot; we had a warm, sunny Thursday. This is a spiteful spring opening. The annual spring fever of mating frogs has begun in the farms’ winter creek, a symphony of ribbetting love songs to all the lady froggies, the humming … Read More

1,000 points of Solstice Light

  It is a simple thing really. Just a brown paper bag, some ordinary sand and a candle. No big deal. Ahhh, now take 1,000 bags, lots of ordinary sand and 1,000 candles, line them up 20 paces apart down a long road with no street lights. NOW you have a really … Read More

Zero to sixty two…

February 2, 2016, I will be 62. I do not remember this time when I was so pinchable. Mom remembers it like it was yesterday. I saw it on her face as we looked through a box of pictures together. In this picture she feels the soft squishy folds of fatness, she … Read More

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