july 14, 2012 lunch

on the way to our campsite, we stopped at the port townsend farmer's market. a more idyllic market i can't imagine, with sunny admiralty inlet as a backdrop, the blue crows playing, and colorful produce that would make a crayon cry!

oysters on the grill for lunch with just a squeeze of lemon, plus a salad of greens from the market: beet and mizuna, drizzled with a little olive oil, lemon juice and pepper. perfection.

..and a few rainier cherries to round the whole thing out.

properly satiated, we set off to explore fort worden. it had been thunderstorming earlier, but it ended up being a beautiful day. good for a barefoot walk on the beach out to the point wilson lighthouse.

there are a ton of old abandoned bunkers to explore in the park.

june 27, 2012 dinner

sitting on the grass in the sun, taking in jake shimabukuro and leo kottke at the zoo. say, this calls for a picnic! there was a big group of us, and we all contributed to the spread. i grazed on salami, olives, pickled hot peppers, strawberries, rainier cherries, almonds and baba ghanouj, with bell pepper and carrot for dipping. i also broke out the leftover kohlrabi, beet and walnut salad.

watching the swallows overhead darting after insects, to a ukulele soundtrack - a perfect summer evening!

june 22, 2012 breakfast

friday morning breakfast was eaten kinda late, because i tried to kill my dracaena. well, not on purpose, but i managed to knock it off a tall cabinet in my office. it sheared off two tops when it landed, and scattered dirt everywhere. oh well, at least i got to use the industrial vacuum, which just makes me want one of those for home. anyhoo, i am attempting to rescue the tops by floating them in water. perhaps they'll start new roots, perhaps not. the stumps left behind may well branch into new growth, so that's another exciting possibility.

attempting some dracaena healing

feeling a bit melancholy about the plant massacre, i dig into a cheerfully odd breakfast of rainier cherries, toasted sesame seaweed, and a rough mash of two hard-boiled eggs and half an avocado, topped with cholula. actually pretty good!

june 21, 2012 breakfast

matt picked up some rainier cherries (just coming into season - so tart and sweet and good!) at the renton farmer's market for a song, so i decorated my plate of egg loaf with them this morning.