When I was a little girl there was a lady on our block named Mrs. Schleeter. (I have no idea how to spell her name, but thats what it sounded like.) She lived across the street from us and one house ...
Do you want to just throw up right now? I know, me too. Turns out my garden forager wasnt exotic at all; I staged a reconnaissance mission in the rainy dusk of Monday night and caught one of these ge...
The weekend before last, Andy and I went to the farmers market to get some stuff and then we spent the rest of the day making things from The Homemade Pantry: 101 Foods You Can Stop Buying and Start ...
Were having an early summer, I think. Today its raining, but the weekend was busy with outside things. The garden is almost entirely planted. My back yard container plants seem happier than ever. Its...
Carrots and potatoes are up : : Tulips finished, peonies coming : : Antiquing for Shellys birthday : : The best potato salad at Natalias : : My hexie cheater quilt : : More friends in town tonight fr...
This quilt is so big I didnt even try to capture the whole of the design, but you can track its evolution here and here and here and here. Its soft and fluffy and puffy and warm and makes me happy. I...
Should you find yourself in the Rose City, here are a few suggestions for you. No list could be comprehensive; I compiled this one from this blogs local reader comments (thank you!), and added severa...
On a hill in the woods overlooking the city sits century-old Pittock Mansion (and its former servants quarters, Gate Lodge). Its a beautiful house and has all of the old house-y things I love: butler...
Wishing you all a wonderful weekend and a very happy Mothers Day xoxo.
When she sticks her tongue out like this I just melt into a foamy puddle of butter. For the winter squash, eggplants, and cucumbers (that Andy wants to pickle), my neighbor (who is a garden wizard) t...
Ah! Pie! Rhubarb custard: sweet, tart, creamy, crusty, and generally awesome. Simple spring pleasure. It worked out well! Now (naturally) I want to grow rhubarb but I dont think we have enough room i...
Things are happy because the sun is finally out. I love being in the shade when it is sunny. Riding bikes up to the grocery store for the first time. I love this time of year. Think I might make rhub...
I treated myself to a little pile of publications yesterday (this one and this one and this one). Ive had a nice week, soaking up inspiration and getting my hands really dirty. I even have a sliver (...
The weather turned winter-cold and insistently wet, and I beat the retreat back into the house and dove into my quilt pile to watch every episode of River Cottage and Jamie at Home that I could find ...
And there it is, our little garden, two days old. So excited! So tired! More soon!
I forget: Photos look so cool when they are printed. Especially at big sizes, like 8" x 10". Ive been going through my archives, especially since getting the Canon, and picking out lots of ...
In the now-quiet house, the animals appear again, venturing back out into the center of the spaces. After a weekend of the most beautiful weather Ive even seen in my entire life, yesterday dawned clo...
The best visit ever. Dear, sweet treasures in my life.xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo
We are so lucky! Our friends are coming to visit us! The plane gets in this afternoon. My heart is bubbling over. So, so, so excited. So excited.
I finally finished tying the quilt shortly after I took this photo. It was all I could do not to take it out of the dryer (I always wash and dry my quilts [on warm] the minute I finish them), put my ...
Rain rain go away. My dearest friend Martha and her baby girl Mila are coming to visit in two days and the forecast is rain all the way. I have the conversation circle all ready out back, but I have ...
In between sunbreaks I would like to tie the quilt, especially when its pouring, and I mean pouring rain outside and us girls are all tucked in upstairs after dinner, waiting for Andy in the warm, ro...
Winner: Most Kissable Nose 2012. If you havent made the Dutch oven bread yet pretty pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee ase try it right away. I ...
And a slug. In his natural environ. Lower Macleay Trail, 4/9/12. (*Several people have written to me to let me know that they have been having a hard time leaving comments for the past week or so. I ...
The weather here has been so glorious the past few days its almost all I can think about. And talk about. I think my life revolves around the weather more than I think it does. Getting outside into t...
Last night Andy and I made some Easter eggs inspired by these pretty ones. I just clipped some tiny sprigs from our tangle of a yard, placed them on the raw eggs, took a square of pantyhose (if you d...
Loveliest friends for dinner Tuesday night. I made a salad with roasted vegetables, chicken tikka masala, and basmati-rice pudding with cardamom (my version of kheer). Id make a double batch of this ...
It was so beautiful yesterday. I had the doors and windows open. I didnt have any music on at all, just so I could hear all of the birdsong weve been missing so much these past long months. I have a ...
Whew. A few days ago I was about to do something else, and before I knew it was sitting under an enormous half-finished quilt with a big blister on my finger. It was like I accidentally stepped into ...
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