[Redwood, Armstrong Woods, August 2010.] I was trying to write this thing about summer — how I felt like I finally caught it on Saturday driving along the Russian River but wishing to be out upon it, kayaking or canoeing, how a champagne picnic under the redwoods really is the best use of my time [...]
Oh, the beauty of words, infinite: 1. This place where you are right now, God circled on a map for you. ~Hafiz and 2. The Changing Light The changing light at San Francisco is none of your East Coast light none of your pearly light of Paris The light of San Francisco is a sea [...]
[Before dinner, July 2010.] Cheese plate + good bread Phyllo-mushroom cups Zuni Cafe roast chicken with heirloom tomatoes + bread salad, parsley-almond pesto White bean + mushrooms, with basil pistou Corn + barley + arugula salad Green beans + summer squash, sauteed shallots Plum torte, homemade mint ice cream Vegan peach-plum crumble This is Just [...]
[Tea and cake, March 2010.] Suddenly, it’s raining and I am drinking an americano (Blue Bottle, double shot, with cream and sugar); two things that have not occurred in awhile, March being so full lately of sun and wind. I feel my right hip aching a little as it does sometimes (an old hiking injury) [...]
