the last month-ish in pictures…enjoy!

the garden state

the garden state

the garden state

new hope, pa

the garden state

nyc

katz’s, nyc

the little owl

nyc

the little owl, nyc

the little owl, nyc

bon bon at the brooklyn flea

more bon bon ;)

roasted apricot and lavender popsicles at the brooklyn flea

nyc

at aroma. nyc

gantry state park

gantry state park

pacific coast highway, california

luxe, half moon bay, ca

half moon bay, ca

i recently realized i missed my blog’s first birthday! what the hell… i think a cake is in order soon, especially since this is post 100…what a bad blog mother i am.

i’m probably on the beach right now, camping it up in california. i’m snapping some pictures and rubbing my toes in the sand. maybe heating up a honey nut brownie on the campfire…yeah, i made brownies and blueberry cake and wrapped single servings up in foil for easy campfire toast-age. i’ll try to remember to take some pictures ;)

as i mentioned before i left, i made some cherry sorbet…it’s good. good like frozen cherry goodness good. enjoy!

cherry sorbet
i only pressed half the puree through a sieve…do what you like. i guess i could have cooked the cherries with the sugar and lemon, but i didn’t.

4 cups pitted, dark, sweet cherries, like bing!
1 cup sugar
2 tablespoons honey
juice of half a lemon

put everything in your food processor or blender and let it rip! until you have a smooth puree. press through a sieve and chill. process in ice cream machine according to manufacturers instructions.

hello friends.

first thing…new profile photo of me doing my fish-face. that’s just how i roll i guess…makes me giggle ;)

i’ve been visiting family and moving into a new place (we have a yard! and a tree with a tiny peach on it! pictures soon :)

it’s been crazy busy and incredibly hot. so hot in our new place, in fact, that the flowers i picked up at the farmer’s market saturday wilted by evening…hot people, like an oven. for realz. which means i am not turning on the oven…at all. well, except maybe in the late, late night time.

having said that, our kind friends jackie and danny gifted us their former evaporation (swamp) cooler. yay! awesome! sean set it up yesterday and let me just say that being able to sit still without breaking a full sweat is a wonderful gift…

…and now, more small town nevada photos…

my greatest pal, brooke, and i went stomping around the town and into a canyon or two to take these photos…they are mostly of the old diamond canyon mine settlement (not a diamond mine, a gold mine) and of one of the many old cemeteries. i’m fascinated by old buildings and graveyards and also super creeped out at the same time. i told brooke that if decaying hand should burst forth from the ground, she should run away and save herself. i have the dumbest fears ever.

this particular cemetery had many, old, dusty, fake flowers on a lot of the graves…i’m pretty sure my cousin and i placed those there when we were like 8 or something, when we used to wander around and read all the really old head stones…cheap thrills in a small town ;)

i could hear water running beneath the ground…

for the 4th of july sean and i traveled to eureka! nevada. it’s the town i went to high school in and a place where they shut down main street for the parade and street games…not to mention gaze at some very interesting big game trophies whilst shopping for groceries. i’m going back for a second visit this weekend. i hope to take some sweet photos of old gold mine sites and some of the century old graveyards…the town and it’s surrounding areas are littered with both old mines and cemeteries. eerie, yet fascinating.

sean participated in the sack race and he and i were a team during the egg toss. our egg died by the 5th round…i missed the catch and it met its fate on my gold flip flop, it’s final resting place between my toes. here are some photos from our weekend away. how was your holiday americans?

aforementioned general store/big game museum,
and an ill-fated egg-toss egg…not ours, like i said that one was rinsed from between my toes :)

glass things (if someone knows what these are called, let me know :) from an old power pole and this no-bake blueberry cheesecake i made for the festivities. i sprinkled some of the lemon-thyme from my mother’s garden on top, so fragrant :)

the sky from my aunt’s front lawn and sean enjoying some conversation and beers on the same lawn.