Scrapbook: New Year’s Day Ice Skating with Chris & Jenn
One thing you don’t often find in the middle of California is a frozen pond. Under normal circumstances, when the earth isn’t falling apart, we get cold snaps and hard freezes, but in the areas that...
View ArticleLittle Big Kitchen: Picnic in Daisy Park
Over the weekend Anthony and I decided we’d do one of the craziest things we could possibly do right now and host two of Isobel’s older girl cousins over for their first sleepover. Isobel had been...
View ArticleFollow Friday – Icicles
(Sorry for the delay – I’ve felt particularly ill this last week.) Today’s post features photos I took for a post I wrote called Little Icicles. Have a great weekend! What is Follow Friday? It’s a...
View ArticleFollow Friday – Winter Picnic
Today’s post is inspired by a trip we took up to Mount Hamilton to visit Lick Observatory. We brought a picnic lunch but it was so cold we ate in the car. Have a great weekend! What is a Follow Friday...
View ArticleReuse Roundup: Flower Sword
This post has been in my draft folder for at least two months now but while I was in the third trimester of my pregnancy I lacked any sort of energy to finish it. It’s saying something that now, sleep...
View ArticleFollow Friday – Cozy
Today’s post features photos that make me feel cozy. Have a great weekend! What is a Follow Friday post? It’s a blog series I created a few years ago based on a Twitter meme. Learn more about it in...
View ArticleWinter Holiday Links
Seasonal living is important to my family, both with the food we eat and the activities we enjoy as the weather turns cold. It is a way of establishing our connection with nature and family. Here are...
View ArticleThrifty Giving: Soup For You
This year, for Christmas, I took a different route for presents than I normally do. As always, short on time and money before the holidays, I decided to give everyone the gift of soup. I make a lot of...
View ArticleThrifty Crafting: Making Christmas
[pinterest] I’m a little under the weather today but I’m committed to NaBloPoMo like a mofo, so the show must go on. I wanted t o share with you a Pinterest board I created called Making Christmas. I...
View ArticleWinter Holiday Links
[pinterest] Seasonal living is important to my family, both with the food we eat and the activities we enjoy as the weather turns cold. It is a way of establishing our connection with nature and...
View ArticleFF Christmas Lights
[pinterest] Have a great weekend! What is Follow Friday? It’s a Twitter meme that I have taken a couple steps further. Learn more about it in my FAQ.See my nomination for a Shorty Award for Follow...
View ArticleLittle Big Kitchen – Hoshigaki Persimmons
[pinterest] My Aunt Debbie drove down from the mountains bearing her usual gifts: carrots in wine sauce for our Thanksgiving table, bags of Mandarin oranges for the family, and something very special:...
View ArticleScrapbook: Christmas Lights Fantastic 2015
[pinterest] I love photographing Christmas lights and look forward to it every year.
View ArticleScrapbook: Zozo in the Wild
When you have a 30lb giant orange lumpus, and you let him roam around in your backyard, which is overgrown after several winter storms, you must be sure to photograph it, for the contrasts in shape...
View ArticleMy Unruly Garden: Spring 2016
[pinterest] Winter is here, and in the backwards Persephone myth in which we live, the earth has sprung back to life. This is the time of year when things grow green, naturally, and unbidden, wherever...
View ArticleFF The Last of Winter
[pinterest] Today’s post is brought to you by the miracle of steroids, and the sad feeling I have that this may be the last of the winter storms this year. Have a great weekend! What is Follow Friday?...
View ArticleSnow Day, Part One
[pinterest] I’m still going through camera photos and recovering from our weekend travelling to The Snow. It was definitely a life list experience for us and the kids and as sick as I am now, I am so...
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