Friday, November 28, 2014

Tallulah-Palooza Friday







Thanksgiving edition! Tallulah Mae went over the river and through the desert to Grandmother's house...she jumped out of the car and RAN up to to the door...so cute!

She also got to enjoy a steady stream of turkey juice, unbeknownst to everyone, which was slowly leaking out of the aluminum roasting pan. When we discovered it, her entire head was covered with it and she was happily lapping it up when it hit the floor. Score!

Thursday, November 27, 2014

Happy Thanksgiving 2014!

Tallulah Mae and I wish you and yours a very happy Thanksgiving. I am very grateful for my life--it's full of love from all quarters. I wish the same for you!

Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Melmac-o-Rama!

Woo hoo! Scored more than a hundred pieces of melmac at a garage sale down the street...all colors, all shapes, all brands (including some nice Russel Wright pieces).

We use melmac dishes every day, so we swapped out some of our dishes for some of these beauties. Most of the rest are destined for my Etsy shop, so if you're into plastica, stay tuned!




Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Birdbath or Cat Drinking Fountain?





Our new next-door neighbors' cat making use of our fountain. It's fine, I guess, but if I find any dead animals in my yard she will be feline non grata...She's quite pretty, isn't she? Sweet, too...

Monday, November 24, 2014

Where's Waldina?

Can you spot the lovely visitor to my tree? I believe she's a female lesser goldfinch.

Friday, November 21, 2014

Tallulah-Palooza Friday







My girl was in a serious mood: Deep Thoughts by Tallulah Mae.

Thursday, November 20, 2014

Mobile Books

A bookmobile! I haven't seen one in ages...I love that books come to you, and I hope there will always be bookmobiles...

Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Etsy Messy

This is what my house looks like much of the time right now: the big big push to photograph and list things in my Etsy shop is in full swing!

Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Strike a Pose

I love my lizard friends...so pretty (and hopefully eating tons of insects in the garden). They startle me--I step outside and they (he? she?) streak away across the pavement.

Monday, November 17, 2014

Fall Falling (Fa la la la la?)


Finally, on the 17th of November, there is a chill in the air--chilly enough for me to put on socks and a sweater around the house (this is how we measure weather here!).

Friday, November 14, 2014

Tallulah-Palooza Friday


Hello, my darling infant baby love sweetpea little child Mae-Mae. Kiss kiss!

Thursday, November 13, 2014

Ch-ch-ch Chia...Pudding

OK, so it doesn't LOOK all that appetizing, but it's rather tasty: chia "pudding" (no cook) made with almond milk and maple syrup. Chia seeds (the ones I have are black, hence the lovely grey color!) are super high in protein and fiber. And yes, I believe they are THOSE chia seeds. The texture is rather like tapioca.

We have a hard time with breakfast...boring, not all that great for you, etc., etc., so I was nosing around the interwebs and found this. It's filling, eaten with some fruit...until it's not: about 3 hours after eating it, you are all of a sudden HUNGRY. Variety, spice, life.

Wednesday, November 12, 2014

It's a Girl!

My third (and final, for now) caterpillar has gone through metamorphosis and is now a lovely monarch butterfly flying free. 

Look how fat it was! (And look how fat my finger looks!)
Here it has gone into the "J" shape before it begins to go into the chrysalis...
Although this is blurry, you can see the skin splitting open (then it falls off, ewww!). 
 Twelve days later--a bit longer than the others--the chrysalis begins to change, first becoming opaque, then black, and then transparent.
And despite my getting up very early this morning in hopes of seeing it emerge, I woke up to find this:

 In this photo you can see her proboscis curled up; it is in two parts when they emerge and they roll the two pieces in and out and somehow (how?!) it becomes one tube.
 Look how crazy long her filaments ("antennae") are!

 Amazing to see the tiny bits that make up the wings...

 You can tell it's a female because she is lacking the two dark spots on her wings that identify a male (my other two were both male).

I had to leave for an appointment, and when I returned, she was gone. Yay!

No more butterfly-sitting for me for a while. I've put the milkweed plant outside now...I hope some female--maybe the beauty above?--will come by and lay some more eggs. But not for a while...I'm exhausted! And very very happy that three of the four caterpillars survived and flew away.

Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Ur Foziewisp

Behold: a dandelions,one of the very first foziewisps that I took notice of. My mom tells me I used to call the seeds floating on the breeze "fairies." And just maybe they really are, in some sense...

Monday, November 10, 2014

Turn to the Right!

This photograph makes me laugh: it reminds me so much of the scene in Raising Arizona where Holly Hunter is taking Nicolas Cage's mug shot: "Turn to the riight!"
Is he in for stealing "hunny"?

(I made that collage in order to list him on Etsy--we're limited to 5 photos so I often make collages in order to show as much detail as possible.) 

Friday, November 7, 2014

Tallulah-Palooza Friday




Outtakes from our Halloween photo session. I was trying to tie a bandanna on her head à la Rosie the Riveter, but Miss Mae was having none of it. By the end, she was lying on it so I couldn't try to put it on again. Silly--and smart!--girl...