goodbye house.
i hope your next visitors are as cool as us.
i hope they take good care of your tomatoes and onions...
and don't disturb your spirits!

tomatees!

due to moving, i was forced to pick many of our remaining tomatoes green.
i think they will ripen on the counter...any ideas?

g'mornin!

i'm looking forward to acquiring a polaroid camera very soon!
this kinda looks like a polaroid, don't ya think?

excited for fall!

photos:
leaves, squash, apple, cranberries, owls, plums, tree, yarn.

dinner at dustins

my friend dustin has been hosting a series of 4 course dinner parties featuring food from a different country each time. 25 meals in less
than 2 months! this was the first one i made it to and, sadly, the last...the "return to seattle" dinner. he is in the process of putting together a
cookbook featuring all 0f the recipes that were served. the man is clearly insane.

lettuce and tarragon soup. this had a faint hint of licorice and a great texture from the ground romaine. i've never had cooked lettuce
but it worked!

swiss chard was stuffed with a creamy goat cheese and potato mash, served with a pleasantly piquant kalamata olive vinagrette.
our favorite dish of the night.

chicken braised in burgundy and blackberries with a creamy fennel puree. tasted like fall!

...and more goat cheese baked into a mousse-like cheesecake and served with dried cherries plumped with warm port.
the cherries added a dense chewy bite next to the grassy creaminess of the goat cheese. delicious!

the road to boise

                                                                                                 night moon.

its good to be home.

the past two weeks have been a whirlwind of summer fun!

concert in our backyard w/ emily bate and jordan o' jordan!

ben kamen and the gang at what the heck fest in anacortes!
the following day, humblecub played a really fun show in the forest at mikrofest on whidbey island!

camping with al's family for his mom's birthday celebration

jared and allan

biscuit in her flotation device

they found a baby deer with spots resting in the grass

our dear friends caleb and deanna finally married! we are so thrilled for them!

their wedding was in a beautiful old barn...caleb was suspended on a bungee cord
and came down from the rafters wailing "here comes the bride" on his guitar!

the blackberries in our yard are ripening! my head is spinning with the possibilities...

summer
the sun is baking

our dusty porch

heat rising

honeysuckle and dry lumber

you and i

we hide in our little home

its cool and dark inside

and there are owls

watching the walls.

mwwwuuaahh!

courtesy of serch

bangor, maine

ben and grant go head to head in a midnight round of bloody knucks.