Last weekend was our annual trek out to the Blue Lake pumpkin patch. Turned out everyone I know in Humboldt County had a similar plan, and I could hardly take two steps without running into someone else I knew. I guess once you have lived here for 17 years these things begin to happen. This [...]
Sigh. For those who haven’t heard, Gourmet magazine announced the end of its deliciously happy shiny food loveliness. We have been on-again, off-again subscribers over the years and own about half a dozen of their various compilation cookbooks. Off the top of my head I can think of a handful of their recipes that have [...]
From our large front windows, the view of the sunset through the tall trees is absolutely magical. I have tried, on numerous occasions to capture it with my camera, but I can never get the settings quite right in the low light. Through my stubborn persistence, I headed out again the other night and managed [...]