Wordless Wednesday: Camping in November

30 November 2011
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Into the Woods

28 November 2011

[Thanksgiving dinner, November 2011.] This year, Thanksgiving weekend involved a lot of time outdoors and that’s perhaps the thing I’m most grateful for in these waning days of 2011. But of course all the other stuff was grand, too. Dinner was lovely — all turned out well, even the last-minute chicken I roasted with olive [...]

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Thanks-giving

24 November 2011

[Along the Pacific coast, November 2011.] Why I Wake Early Hello, sun in my face. Hello, you who made the morning and spread it over the fields and into the faces of the tulips and the nodding morning glories, and into the windows of, even, the miserable and the crotchety— best preacher that ever was, [...]

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Wordless Wednesday: From Last Week

23 November 2011
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Making Pumpkin Pie from a Pumpkin

22 November 2011

So what happened was: I went to the store to get the fixings for a pumpkin pie — the evaporated milk, the canned puree — and left with a carton of Clover heavy cream and a small (organic) sugar pumpkin that I roasted last night and turned into my own puree. I can’t even explain [...]

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Vegetarian Thanksgiving

18 November 2011

[Kehoe Beach, November 2011.] Right — it’s November. The light, when the sun is shining, looks a lot like that photo above. I’m crossing my fingers very tightly (not when I’m typing, though; that would make things difficult) for sun next Thursday so we can slip away to Kehoe for a Thanksgiving walk before the [...]

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