Okay, here you go, growing just outside the door, practically. I make a mean apricot pie, or better yet, turnovers. Apricots growing right out of the ground! Don’t say I never gave you nuthin.

No, these aren’t ripe yet, but we’re gonna have a ton of ‘em

(This has to continue…)
So there I am, sitting outside in one of the dead landlord’s aluminum lawn chairs with the cushions we bought at Wal-Mart. The chairs are fine, the cushions suck. You can still buy basic outdoor chairs this nice, but you have to hunt for them, and they won’t be at Wal-Mart. Anyway, [...]

That last post on politics was an aberration, exactly what I’m struggling to avoid, and is no more. Back to nature, then, where more silence is probably required.
Last night we had dinner with an older couple (yes, older than I am), people of very limited means, who somehow own a piece of land way up [...]

A very impromptu headlong dash into the boonies late this afternoon provides the images for the latest FotoFeed series. I took this shot on the way back to show you what it looks like where I started from — if you could turn 180 degrees from this view, you’d be looking at rugged tree-covered mountains. [...]

I just found this great page for all kinds of astronomical data from the United States Naval Observatory and added it to the sidebar. What a fantastic reference! There’s even a daily photo of the moon, which I find damn practical and potentially life-altering. The moon is dependable, like God. It punctuates its phases with [...]