My favorite tunes!

Anais - Hard Rain's Gonna Fall

Blind Pilot - 3 Rounds and a Sound

Dr Dog - Shadow People

Akron - River

Arizona - Some Kind of Chill

Blind Pilot - I buried a bone

Ed Sharpe - Home

Alela Diane - Tired Feet

Devon Sproule - Virginia Block

Three Dog Night - Shambala

This does not include all of the wonderful tracks that were on the mixes that I already knew (ex. Mason, Bob Dylan, Joni, etc)

woohoo! Gonna surely play these tunes on our way to NYC whether the random folks in my car like it or not.

I Know Why the Caged Bird Laughs

Girl, I hope you enjoy this as much as I do!

The Styx

This is our future home. And this is a little note you wrote me last April and I saved it in my gurnal! I will cherish it forever!

Change of Scenery

"What?"

It looks like you're supporting the whole blue sky with those strong artist hands of your.

Important question: when are we doing this together again?

Salvo!

Here are some photos from Salvo. The shipwreck can be seen from the shore behind our beach house. It's a propeller shaft from a The Old Richmond, a shipwreck from the 19th century with no official record. Legend has it was from the Civil War and that bodies were washed up on shore. You can see it in the distance in the photo of Pop (you can see it much better at low tide).

Monoblogue: The Big Ditch: Part 2

Life on the rafts. Tying them together makes a big party boat.
As far as the eye can see--views like this were not too common, even on our hikes. This one was special.
Sunset!

Galapagos

"Miguel's description of how tortoises die (an old tortoise may be 200) was interpreted by Ken in the Sierra Club volumes Galapagos: The Flow of Wildness: Once he gets big, a tortoise has no enemies, and if he avoids falling over a cliff or into a lava pit too steep for escape, he dies only of old age. One day he gets too weak to move, and stops. He stays in that spot for months, sometimes, his long-practiced power of enduring, his racial skill at it, serving him long after his power to move and get food has failed. Watching leaves fall, probably, and the seasons change. . . The tortoise living only in his head and eyes. . . a spark still somewhere inside, above the plastron and below the dome."

David Brower

Let the Mountains Talks, Let the Rivers Run: A Call to Save the Earth

What a world.

The Big Ditch: November 2011, Part 1

The moon each night was like someone shining a headlamp in your eyes. Not half as irritating, because it was beautiful instead of obnoxious, but very bright.
I found this petrified old warty witch.
This was how my hike down started. If I had half the luck of Kevin McAllister I might have tried skis instead my hiking shoes!

Now Who's on a Roll?

So many things I love about this clip. Let's just go in order of appearance:

1. Slow-mo cell phone fall

2. Big's weak unassertive voice saying "Carrie, Carrie."

3. Big yelling out the window to the passing limo

4. Charlotte's face and voice, but mostly her face as she shouts "NO! NO!"

5. The ethnic (are those African drums?) drumming in the background

Ropes McGlopes

My Hood

Today I walked into EMT class and said "Sup?" to someone in there and the awkward girl who sits next to me (who I am actually grateful for in many ways) said in her quiet, tentative voice "You don't do ghetto very well." B*TCH, I WADN'T TRYIN' TO BE GHETTO OR NOTHIN! JUST SAID WUSSUP!

Now that that's out of my system, here are some pics of the hood I live in.

This is the Elizabet Ney Museum, about 3 blocks away. It's nestled in the middle of the neighborhood, next to a park, with a creek running behind it, and homes across the street and off the side street. It was the amazing studio of 19th century sculptor Elizabet Ney and is such a neat little gem of Hyde Park (built in 1892 I think)! That tiny top room in the tower I believe is the room she made for her husband.

And this neat home was one of the first built in Hyde Park, the old state fair grounds, back in 1859! I just love the character of the older homes around here. Jeffrey and I always walk by those places and talk about them together. He thought we should share them with you.

More art!

I hope you're not sick of the slew of kid art I'm posting! I'm just so dang-on proud of these papier mache birds that people made today in side-by-side.

Kibbles n bits and tiny mouse tits

I am not able to upload any of the myriad photos from my iPod to this here bluergh but have decided to post anyway just to remind you that I'm here and that I will post more later.

I love that self portrait so much!!

I am sitting outside a Starbuncles in San Antonio gettin ready to go to emt class. Tell you what, Starbuncles is not as uniform around the country as I once thought. And we thought service was awkward and uncomfortable at the Robinson buncles! Ha!

Boys and Girls Club self portrait

Yggrrruummmm!

This week's delishiousness:

red cabbage

red onion

sesame oil

apple cider vinegar

poppy seeds

salt and pepper

I've been adding the "slaw" to salads as well as eating it by itself all day long.

Also! I made mashed sweet pots with coconut milk, splash of maple syrup, nutmeg, cinnamon, and cumin.

Then I went to Bamboo and ate french fries with ranch dressing!! Its always the two extremes with me, it seems.

Jeffers and Merle: Frenemies at play in the James

Your cookin must sure be amazin these days. I bought some curry from Penzeys today. Also, I made a kale salad with nutritional yeast, sesame oil, and apple cider vinegar! Should of photographed it.

YURGM!

Red Lentil Thai Chili! I just made it last night and holy deliciousness, it is amazing. Half of it is in the freezer because it's a massive amount of chili.

I'm on a roll today!

Cutie patootie and his cat art

Muy interesante!

Anatomical cross sections made with quilled paper... artist name: Lisa Nilsson

Knitting Genius

I promise that I will post things other than photos of my kid. But this was just so darn cute with the red hat.

Literally, a Book Club: Next Up

This must needs be next in line.

3-D Movies are Cool!

Christmastime at Mulberry Manor looks so cozy and enjoyable and brings back so many warm memories! Did Baldrick snap that photo?

Bailamos

Older photo circa Christmastime. You look so adorable in your back yard! Jeffrey does look like an older man, somehow. More burly and muscular, more... red-zoney. Jk! We just ate dinner at the Nile and boy was it delish.

Sure do wish I had a drinking buddy tonight.

A Day in the Life

Happy mid-winter afternoon!

By the way, now that I'm on page 545, I'm starting to think I underestimated the cleverness of Russell Banks.

The Grey Boy

Three Beasts

I'm going to have too much fun with this here blrrgh.

Literally, a DiaBlog

Cheers to our literal diablog!

Here is our first creepy photograph to eternalize in the internet cloud.

Cheers to the blog!

And cheers to us!

Although use of the word daily may have been a bit ambitious for this blog, I hope to see it fill up week by week with interesting projects, recipes, images, jokes, memories, meditations, and anything else that might fit into our diablog.