Friday, December 30, 2016

dusk oaks in martinez

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so sad and worrisome that sudden oak death has spread so widely now.

Sunday, December 18, 2016

trumpet!

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from the yard

Sunday, December 11, 2016

Sunday, December 04, 2016

home in vallejo

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feeling settled in our home in vallejo

started an around vallejo photo set. 


Sunday, November 13, 2016

outside and inside

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light and shadows

strangely beautiful days despite political madness 

moments of muddle and moments of clarity. sadness, anger, frustration, despair, love.

as many have said, this is a call to action. listen to more music, read more poems, make more art, take care of one another. stand up for each other. here we go.

Monday, October 31, 2016

today

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fika and a silvery ferry ride

finally back to the blog after moving to vallejo!

Sunday, September 18, 2016

Wednesday, August 24, 2016

summer trip!

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snaps from the pickathon music festival on pendarvis farm and some pretty portland drinks


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and from san juan island visit

Monday, August 01, 2016

north beach date

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m and i did some touristing in our former home city of SF: buildings, food, views, and the (heretofore not visited by either of us) enchanted gardens of telegraph hill.
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north beach has always felt like a foreign place to me, a destination (even when i lived in SF). m and i remarked on how in the many years we lived there, no friends of ours ever lived in north beach. i did temp occasionally, in 1998 or 1999, as a teller at a bank in north beach. the chinese folks would line up for the chinese-speaking teller and the italians for the italian speaking teller. i guess i served the people who spoke english and/or who didn't mind my lack of other useful languages (there not being many swedes in north beach). on lunch breaks i went to the italian deli next door for seriously delicious sandwiches made by seriously italian men. i rode the increasingly packed bus through chinatown to downtown to go home, north of the panhandle. the whole thing was a fun intro to SF.


Wednesday, July 20, 2016

more summer pies!

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(to be exact: key lime with graham cracker macademia nut crust, blueberry pie, and not pictured: peach/nectarine galettes and another blueberry/lemon verbena pie) 

and a window cat 

and macademia nut chi chi drinks at forbidden island 

grateful

Sunday, July 10, 2016

summer peaches

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the best

dose of pinky leon

Wednesday, June 22, 2016

land | sea


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a belated happy summer solstice and glad midsommar!

Friday, May 20, 2016

Friday, May 13, 2016

colors



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feet over the years

Tuesday, April 26, 2016

park life

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dreamy SF day at the de young (mainly in the garden) and in the castro. 

feelin' lucky. 

here's a delicious flower near my work.

Friday, April 08, 2016

pancakes with pinky

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last weekend

Tuesday, March 29, 2016

critters

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my springtime sweethearts



Sunday, March 06, 2016

ploughshares nursery

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great wild edibles talk and tour of ploughshares, which is part of the awesome alameda point collaborative. marigold went along for the ride. 


Tuesday, March 01, 2016

indigo dye day

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over in jen and bob's lovely back yard. fresh outdoor made eggs and coffee and chiminea cocktail times too.

check out how the indigo oxidizes from yellow to green to blue. 

all the photos

Wednesday, February 24, 2016

alameda /|\ /|\ oakland ||&||

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east bay exploring: alameda boats, and across the estuary, oakland streets

Witchy: Tie your arm to my arm / So we can / Make our plans for this slow, slow weekend 


Monday, February 15, 2016

blooming in alameda

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rosemary from the back yard
magnolia
mystery fruit
oxalis

Saturday, February 06, 2016

colors

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Monday, January 25, 2016

rainy in alameda

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back yard scenes

Tuesday, January 19, 2016

good eats

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so much good food lately. lucky. 

plus a green corner.

Tuesday, January 12, 2016

orr hot springs

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such a relaxing good weekend 
 

Friday, January 08, 2016

Tuesday, January 05, 2016

happy new year!

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some photos from new year's day with marilyn—a sweet start to 2016.

breakfast extravaganza, nyd selfie, a stroll around lake merritt (where we passed this refugees are welcome here poster), and a visit to luka's taproom. fun to walk with and by the other folks walking the lake. walking/hiking is my favorite way to start a new year.

i'm still pondering my word for 2016. last year was new. i did pretty well actually on that one! year before was yes. yes is really a word for every year. but considering some others too—risk, open, adventure, dream (all in the yes theme), let go, acceptance, patience, community, cultivate, tend, attention, appreciation, play, to name a smattering.