Figgy

Fresh fig clafouti! Very yum (if I do say so myself). You can make clafouti with any fruit; this is the first time I tried figs (which I adore), and it was a success.

Why Not?

A dog, in an apron, making dinner.

That's all!

Love Vine

How pretty is this vine? It apparently has several common names, including Mexican coral vine and chain of love vine.

Street Art (Literally)

Just discovered this stencil in the middle of a neighborhood street...

Tallulah-Palooza Friday

Portrait of a dog with flipped ear. Art!

Mystery Fruit

I'm not sure what this tree is--perhaps a pawpaw tree?--but whatever it is, it's LOADED with fruit!

XXX

Look, it's a two-headed bug...oh. Um...

Sorry, bugs--get a room!

(Apparently these are milkweed bugs--appropriate as they are gettin' busy on a milkweed leaf!)

Bee Behind

This bee girl is enjoying some brilliant milkweed flowers. There were, of course, many monarchs fluttering around as well...

The Big Whoop

This is the eclipse at its most full point here in San Diego...the light was a weird yellowish-pinkish color. We had no glasses--procrastinators unite!--so we didn't actually see anything.

Onward to the next one in 2024! (I might order glasses now just to be sure!).

Tallulah-Palooza Friday

Hmmm...I feel like someone is watching me.

I Like Coffee, Coffee Is Good!

Bring on the coffee!!!! I believe both of these were consumed on the same day (breakfast, afternoon break).

Forty Years Ago

...RIP, Elvis: TCB forever!

No Words

I've got nuthin' today...except I did re-read my blog post published the day after the election. It's here. I wish I could look at it and think, "Wow, what a crazy emotional overreaction THAT was." But no--it is more true than ever, 9 months on. And that's just sad.

Sign o' the Times

Yes, please. Lots of it...

Tallulah-Palooza Friday

Direwolf in da HOUZZZZZ! Tallulah Mae makes baby Nymeria's acquaintance. She is, of course, not impressed.

For those of you who are not GoT geeks [and who ARE you if you're not, LOL]: this is a stuffed toy of baby Nymeria, one of the six direwolf puppies adopted by the six Stark children (well, Jon Snow was allegedly a Stark bastard, but we all know that's not the case!).

Nymeria is one of two direwolves still alive--Arya shooed her away into the forest to escape being killed by the fuckwit Joffrey (her sister Sansa's direwolf, Lady, was killed instead--because Joffrey just SUCKED! But he's dead now, so there's that...). Nymeria is out there, in the wild; Arya just encountered her two episodes ago. Jon Snow's direwolf, Ghost, is also still alive, and still with Jon--Jon SNOOOOOOWWW.

Summer, Shaggydog, Grey Wind, and Lady are no longer alive, all killed by various assholes in the GoT universe (I'm looking at YOU, Ramsey Bolton!).

Game of Thrones geekery! How are we going to wait another year for the final episodes?!?

At the Carwash

"Ooh ooh
You might not ever get rich
But let me tell ya it's better than diggin' a ditch
There ain't no tellin' who you might meet
A movie star or maybe even an Indian chief

(Workin')
At the car wash
Workin' at the car wash, yeah
Come on and sing it with me
(Car wash)
Sing it with the feelin' y'all
(Car wash, yeah)..."

More Vintage Goodness

I mean...how cute is this?! (They are blank cards...)

Bird Party

One boy for all these girls!

Cooler Days

Dedicated to the proposition that everything used to be much cooler. They didn't HAVE to decorate this carbon paper, but they did, to marvelous effect...

Tallulah-Palooza Friday

We ALL love watermelon in this household! (Her tongue almost matches the melon!)

Mood

That is all...

Winter in the Summer

Wow! These are wintertime skies (atmosphere full of moisture) in the summer...it has been wickedly humid here, but I guess this is the reward!

So Real They Look Fake

Aren't these amazing? They are growing in a garden here in the neighborhood. They almost look fake, like the plastic or glass grapes that folks had on display in the 1960s, like these.