at the weekend

Aunt Connie--thanks for asking to see photos of the garden! I've been a bit too lazy to take any lately (plus it is always dark by the time I get home!!) But I am adding two other photos to make up for it in the mean time. Garden photos shall be posted soon...


This is me, Laura, Buster, and a giant carrot from the garden. We are quite the happy family. *The headlamp was used to find the carrot in the garden cause it was too dark to see without it!



This is a drawing for my class that is in process. It is a distorted self portrait (thank you Mac Photo Booth!) The original is in the upper right corner. I think it is getting there...


In other news: it is the weekend! Work has been so busy that the weeks just fly by... but I am so exhausted come the weekend. A regular and habitual break from work was a brilliant idea, whoever came up with it. I am so for it.

I feel there are other things I have been wanting to share here, but am too tired for it this evening. I shall post again soon!

An occasioned meeting

Yesterday I learned an important thing about eating from your own garden: unexpected friends sometimes show up on your dinner plate.

I had made for myself a meal in which the main component was a salad. I picked the greens from the garden, washed them, and in the process of drying them and tearing them up I happened upon a miniature tobacco horned worm. Her color mimicked the lettuce quite well, so I nearly missed her! I plucked her off the leaf and put her in the compost (I would have placed her back in the garden but they are rather destructive creatures!) After I removed her from my dinner, I had a think about how I would never find a living (non-microscopic) organism in something I purchased from a grocery... and if I did how repulsed I would find myself. Yet, when food is coming from the garden (or farmers market for that matter), it is normal. It is interesting how the foods that we buy in the grocery are somehow--in our conceptual understandings--transcendent from any ideas of ecosystem or natural processes... how we have become so disconnected from the mystery underlying the way our food grows. It's just a little interesting, that's all. :)