Archive for November 2010 | Monthly archive page
One of my favorite parts of my garden was my climbing rose. I’d dug this plant out of the flowerbed in our old apartment. The gardeners kept whacking the rose to the ground (it wasn’t part of the landscaping) and it just kept growing back. Whack-grow-whack-grow. Finally one day I took a trowel and dug [...]
With Kit, Age Seven, At the Beach We would climb the highest dune, from there to gaze and come down: the ocean was performing; we contributed our climb. Waves leapfrogged and came straight out of the storm. What should our gaze mean? Kit waited for me to decide. Standing on such a hill, what would [...]
My home smells so yum right now :) # Done so many new things the past few days…am now grateful for the familiarity of holiday cooking: rotkohl, pumpkin pie, turkey, etc # Cuppa & cupcake powering my afternoon (thanks Doug & Anna!) http://brizzly.com/pic/3WB8 # Just passed my belay-certification class & test at the #UCI ARC. [...]
IMG_0824, originally uploaded by pilgrimgirl. With all of the busy-ness of this week, I wanted to record just a few simple pleasures from the past few days… –walking in the Huntington Gardens in the rain, the vanilla-y smell of heliotrope filling the air –a spontaneous wine & cheese picnic with friends, after a leisurely soak [...]
peach blossom, originally uploaded by pilgrimgirl. Autumn Movement by Carl Sandburg I cried over beautiful things knowing no beautiful thing lasts. The field of cornflower yellow is a scarf at the neck of the copper sunburned woman, the mother of the year, the taker of seeds. The northwest wind comes and the yellow is torn [...]
Am going off the social media radar for a few days. See you on the other side. #
Last night’s dreams were the most vivid that I’ve had in a long while. It was one of those times when you know you’re dreaming, but you’re also very immersed in the world and letting it thrill you. I went to my garden and found it untouched, the blue gate still hanging a bit crookedly [...]
I’ve been thinking about orange this morning. How about you?
Love is fading, originally uploaded by pilgrimgirl. Well over a year ago, punk rocker Amanda Palmer signed my foot. Now, her “Love, AFP” signature is fading, and I’m debating whether to try to refresh it with a permanent marker or to just let it fade away… On a not-really-related note, I spent some time at [...]
It seemed time to run this post again–it was orginally published on October 20, 2006. A lot has changed in our home since this video: we’ve moved to a slightly bigger place, we now have a couch, and we no longer own that big table. But a lot has stayed the same (i.e. BOOKS)… For [...]
I couldn’t decide between a picture of beans or a picture of squash*, so I decided to do both–a complete protein in a post! (*Note: both pics taken the day before our community garden was bulldozed)
I’d been planning to write this post for awhile, and then Chandelle’s recent conversation about meat-eating inspired me to actually sit down and pound it out… In the late afternoon my Mom would often set some meat on the counter to defrost for that night’s dinner. It was usually some chicken or ground beef. From [...]
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