Ok, undinesprite and I are spoiled.

Not only do we have Mozart's Cafe--with their incredible German-influenced cakes and pastries, but admittedly crap website--within easy driving distance, and a Trader Joe's too, but now, on top of this, we now have Weiland's Market ( Read more... )

The following pie was brought to you by the good people at Just Pies (“Don't bother with the details, just give us the pie”*).


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I have to apologize.

I meant to post these ages and ages ago. They are lovely pics of undinesprite --and I say lovely pics because of the subject, who is more than lovely, and not because it has anything to do with the picture-taker-shouldn't be languishing away like this ( Read more... )

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Pictures from the recent trip to Indiana to meet Laurie's friends (lovely people one and all), where we stopped at the Ghyslain Chocolate factory and made our own chocolate mousse tulips:


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Ok, first it was going to be a post about my truck, which isn’t really my truck any more, and how I’d miss the rattle-trap thing despite the rust, and the wipers not wiping very well, and the way the radio didn’t work, and how I don’t agree with the need for owning a needlessly big, gas-guzzling enviro-killer when all you use it for is to drive to ( Read more... )

It’s afternoon and I’ve woken before her. It’s a Sunday nap, the sort where we try to soak up sleep like we’re afraid the FDA will pull the license soon. Sunlight angles through the room, painting the wall across from us. Curled against the warmth of her body, I watch the light shift and ripple, filtered through the tree limbs outside, and it’s ( Read more... )

Always take the weather with you.

~Advice from a song lyric.

I plan on keeping storm clouds and sunlight in my pocket ( Read more... )

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