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  • Gettin’ wid it

    On the quest to getting our shit together after a long period of depression and ill health, we went to the Greensboro Farmers’ Curb Market late this morning. Many vendors were not there, and a few were sold out of what I wanted, but that’s the trade-off of sleeping late. I’m fine with that trade-off,…

  • Saturday coffee pot post

    Actually, the coffee pot is empty now. I spent part of the morning sleeping late after staying up WAY TOO LATE looking at social media, and part of it reading “The Last Straw” by Bryant Holsenbeck on the front porch. My neighbor, Mike, came over and is excited about the possibility of transforming some of…

  • 01-08-2021

    Sitting here in my office during my “lunch hour.” The snow either didn’t show or didn’t stick today. I walked to work in a light sleet that melted on the ground. Yesterday I got out for the first walk I’ve taken in days, and puttered around the yard pulling up tomato plants and tidying a…

  • Sunday morning coffee pot post

    I can’t upload to Flickr right now and I’ve been worried for a while about the change in ownership of the platform. I have so many photos on it – over 10K – and over the years I have linked here to my photos stored there. I would be wrecked if the platform changed its…

  • Forest Grove, Oregon, 2017

    Susanne and I love Forest Grove, a beautiful small college town in the middle of rolling farmland with the backdrop of the Coast Range on its west and only a thirty minute drive from Portland to its east. We discovered it through our three trips to the Focus on Book Arts conference we went to…

  • New studio space and Deep Roots news

    Slow Turn Studio The studio is all moved in to the house on Wharton St., except for odds and ends that will probably always float back and forth between there and home. I spent a good part of this past weekend there, and I think that Susanne and I will both be happy with the…

  • Back Forty Update and Market Report

    It finally got cool enough for my butterbeans (or lima beans) to produce again. They will keep going now until a heavy frost. My field pea crop is winding down. I prefer to eat them freshly shelled (not dried like this photo) with “snaps” – the immature pods snapped like green beans. This year they…

  • Lambsquarters

    I’ve written about cooking lambsquarters before. They are easily foraged if you can find a place that isn’t sprayed with herbicides or other pollutants. This article from Mother Earth News is informative about other uses for this “weed.” I have some growing among my black-eyed susans right now and I’ll pick them for some nutritious…

  • Not Campbell Soup

    We Southern cooks love our casseroles with cream of this-or-that soup, but since I moved to eating organically and locally as much as possible several years ago, I’ve adapted some of my favorite casseroles to using a cream sauce with whatever. I make faux condensed cream of mushroom soup by making a thick white sauce…

  • Visual journal, December 12, 2013

    Flounder roulade with oyster stuffing and roasted brussels sprouts at Josephine’s Bistro. YUM. I’m trying to find the owners of this beautiful friendly older kitten. S/he likes to follow people and play and it is very cold outside. I feel pretty sure that s/he belongs to a neighbor but when you live near a college…