The rain was just about over when I took this shot, but the sky is still looking impressive…all purple and navy…

The rain was just about over when I took this shot, but the sky is still looking impressive…all purple and navy…

Uncle Doug’s Cooking Camp tonight includes a lesson on making biscuits from scratch.

Sometimes, meetings at work start out something like this.

Purple is my favorite color. Always has been. But when I was little, I liked it so much that I convinced myself that I liked beets, even though I didn’t, and I also would always choose the purple lollipop even though I liked the red ones better. I wonder if I’d have gone for purple kale. Kids are weird.

At work, I often have programs that run right over the lunch hour, and I don’t sit down to eat until after 2:00. It doesn’t really bother me, but it is nice to have a snack to tide me over before the program begins. This tasty chocolate-and-orange combo just about hit the spot this morning.

So now I hopefully won’t be detained in Panama (or anywhere else) for never being properly vaccinated on our return from Ecuador.

Went down to the basement this morning to put some groceries in the freezer. Saw this big slab ‘o meat hanging from the ceiling. Was only mildly alarmed, given who I am married to. Shook my head, went back upstairs.

(with apologies to Bobby Vinton)
He’s a bluuuuuuuue lobster (ooo ooo ooo)
Bluer than ocean was his shell
I know you’re thinking “what the hell.”
Not from Mars.

Gandalf is a wonderful subject for black-and-white photographs. Otherwise, he tends to just sort of disappear–he’s the color of every shadow.

These spiffy T-shirts arrived in the mail yesterday from the tour company we’re using for our Galapagos trip at the end of the month.
