fried green tomatoes

N's mom brought over a bunch (30) green tomatoes, I've never actually had fried green tomatoes, but thought of the movie Fried Green Tomatoes from years ago, and thought it might be fun to make them. They were YUMMY!

a thousand faces

garden part 2

gardenia am

gardenia pm
hoya orgy

orange blossoms

sitting...sort of

hum, how did I get here?

watch, I can put my whole hand inside


asskicking

San Mateo, California

So...
Mia just got a lovely little package in the mail from San Mateo, California. The box is decorated with butterflies and her name cut out from magazines, inside contained two cute outfits from Baby Gap and a little bracelet and a MIA cup.

Thank you to Alexis Esquerre (name of the sender). Do we know each other? :) the gifts are so time appropriate and thoughtful, we wonder if you are a baby gift stork? :)

It's addressed to Mia c/0 Barcelona Barroc...did we meet in a concert? is this a surprise from someone who DO know?

Anyway, many thanks from all of us!

serendipity - more pix from walks

promised omelet

here is a picture of the omelet I made with the wild asparagus we found from our garden :)

coos and toes

and you ask me why I miss rain

we've had a week of unusual weather for this time of the year, to my utter delight, it has been cool and raining all week, and instead of a walk in the neighborhood, Mia and I took a walk in our garden this afternoon and look what's flowering and fruiting :)

wild asparagus (a pic of the omelete will follow, maybe for tomorrow's breakfast)

close-up of asparagus

morning glorylook who else we found
rhododendron
hoya
hoya close-up

dipladeniadipladenia close-up
from seeds
my dill farm

lemon verbena blossomsmy mediterranean herb garden: lavender, lemon verbena, rosemary and sage
olives
REALLY tall pines

pond
ying and yang (ok, more yang than ying here)
more ying and yang

morning newspaper


my very own flower :)