I have a massive crop of these guys and I am not entirely sure what to do with them. Anybody got some good recipes for habanero something? In the meantime, they sure are pretty - it’s no Weston, but it is still kinda nice.

What a great client!

I am completely in love with these strawflowers. So pointy, so crisp, such contrast… Love ‘em.

A long time ago I had a friend - she was beautiful, strong and brilliant. She was a painter with a promising career ahead of her - adept at schmoozing galleries and all the right people (a skill I never learned.) She was an amazing person and a wonderful friend - my best friend at the time. But an abusive and manipulative man took control of her life years ago, and they disappeared from our lives despite the best efforts of friends and family. I’ve been mourning the loss ever since.

I’ve recently learned that she’s ok and perhaps even reading this blog lately. If you’re there, my dear old friend, please know that you are loved and missed and that there are people out here looking forward to the day that you are free to be yourself again.

But I spent a chunk of my evening goofing around with photoshop to make this stupid thing anyway - it was just too obvious a gag to pass up…

I took a walk in our woods this afternoon looking for good textures - and I found some! My mom says these are called “turkey feathers”

We went up to the Pemaquid lighthouse near Wiscasset Maine this afternoon. It was a beautiful day, and we got to spend a fair bit of time wandering the rocks along the coast which I quite enjoyed.

Yum!

My dad found this guy in the woods while he was chopping down a tree.