Rocks

Waltham record store

Flags & Windows

Against the green - through the window

Bay Window VW bus

Open neon sign

Getting ready

Top of a french press

Snowy Apple Farm in Lancaster, Ma

Where I get my turkey + turkey burgers

Corsican Mint (Summer 2008)

From a few pics I found along the way to making the 2008 collage.

:)

People in the snow

 

Solar power

The power loss during the ice storm forced me to use my solar charger.

Quaint church in Holden, MA

I love the alternating colored stones.

Video card busted

The power outage from the ice storm busted my video drive and my computer required no less than 10 reboots to get back to normal.

WTAG

Soccer Field in Holden, MA

I dropped Alyssa and Max off at Sarah Mcrell's house for a cookie party. I had a couple of hours to kill, so I drove around Holden a bit. I was listening to Elliot Smith's Tomorrow Tomorrow off of XO at the time.

Cooling Hand

I worked a bit over thanksgiving weekend and got stressed out. The worst of the 3 burns required my hand to be in water that was below 60 degrees. I used two thermometers to remind me when to add ice. This was a wonderful time to catch up on reading the New Yorker.

New blog called Table Tongue

It all started with rectangular plates that Alyssa and I purchased from Crate & Barrel. These bland innocent plates begged to have food thrown on them in ways that would force me to challenge my food presentation.

Each meal shown on my new blog table tongue only survived a few seconds before Alyssa could perform her ritual of consuming + critiquing new entrees from our kitchen.

Fire

Frost

Walkers

Sage Frost

Orange Leaves

I normally wouldn't go for the obvious this season and take pictures of leaves, but two of my dear friends (dave+penny) don't get to see much foliage since they moved to Oregon. I guess you can't really appreciate something until it is taken away from you.

Hog Brook Foliage

Wheat Grass

I love this little plant. I tossed some compost all up in there and vuala! It started growing and shot up to twice the original height. I've cut around the edges to make wheat grass juice (makes me remember an '03 trip to California). I use the leftover blades as a base for tomato soup.

Bro-In-Law's graduation

 

alyssa and max

 

Indian concert: Tabla + Flute

I liked how everyone sat during the concert. It was very akin to a Jazz concert with long solos, but with the added bonus of crowd participation. Whenever someone was moved by the music they would say something in their native tounge or clap.

Harvest

This is the 5th or 6th harvest from a really good season with tomatoes.

The green pepper on the top right is from the pepper series! It withered in the sun unfortunately.

Worm

Pepper Plant (Day 133)

Tree from the Hoh forest (Olympia, Wa)

Me and Max

My wife

I realized I have no pics of my wife on here! This one I love, because I forced her not to "fix" her hair after the wind hand blown it into this position.

Oregano

Of all the plants in my garden (other plants: cucumbers, sage, purple sage, pepper, 3 types of tomatoes, basil, lettuce, snap peas, asparagus, dwarf apple trees, onions, carrots, and broccoli) the oregano has liked our soil the best.

I forgot to mention that I'm growing grapes. One is in a very structured environment and the other are growing wild through my hedges. I've found the wild one crawling across the ground in several places and I've had to yank it out of the ground and let it dangle from a higher branch (darned wild grapes!)

Max and the mirror

Pepper Plant (Day 43)

I'm trying out a technique used by mountain people documented in the first of the Foxfire book series. It involves figuring out the prominent constellation, factoring in moon phase, and boiling down a chapter of interviews from Foxfire 1. I just read the chapter, and the time to throw these puppies into the ground is coming in a couple days! We'll see how things go.

The shoot on the left with the deepest green color is the first plant to sprout up (Day 4). It hasn't grown as much as the others and has really really thick green leaves that almost look fake. Any farmers out there know why this is happening?

Pink Tree

Willow

Earth Dots

I've started another blog!! It's called Earth Dots and will house the other wordly geometric illustrations I've been drawing since I was in 8th grade.

The style on the site came about through my brother teaching me photoshop and the recent blessing in the form of a free scanner from Freecycle.



Here's the first image I've posted to the site.

Michaels Shopping Carts

Spring