A Wedding, and Cake
[Wedding cake, October 2011.] It’s hard to believe a week ago right now I was driving through the rolling hills of Northern California along Tomales …
Sunday Morning Pancake-Making
On Sunday the day rose up grey and gloomy and I heard the distinct patter of rain outside as I burrowed my head deeper under …
That Old Fall Feeling
[Inverness, September 2011.] Fall is settling in though the calendar promises a few weeks more of summer — but look, the apples hang fat and …
Ten
I wrote this post two years ago, and I’m re-posting today because whenever I sit down to write something about 9/11 I find I write …
Around Yosemite
[Yosemite Valley from above, August 2011.] It’s difficult to do justice to Yosemite through words though I can try — the waterfalls, especially this summer …
Cooking with Emily
[At Green Gulch Farm, July 2011.] A weekend of good eating and, as sometimes happens, not too many photographs taken. My sister-in-law Emily is in …
How it Goes
[On the table, June 2011.] I cooked a lot during the weekend. Woke up to pouring rain (pouring rain! In June!) Saturday morning and decided …
Rain, Cold, Cookies, Spring
[Over the mountain, near Geyserville, May 2011.] It’s raining today in San Francisco (wait — it’s raining?? On the last day of May? This is …