Carrizo Plain Loop 2011

Morro Bay --> Santa Margarita --> Las Pilitas Nursery --> Carrizo Plain --> enjoying the 166/33. 14-16 April. full picasa. The main purpose was to go to the nursery to get some Bishop pines and manzanita for Sara's research. We were a little late for flowers in Carrizo but it was pretty good near the visitor's center.

viva le France

old building in Santa Margarita

this is the hill that was crazy last year
nice oaks

Bee in the flowers

Bishop pines in the back...

Blazers 2 - Mavs 2

Dunno if they can win the series, but the comeback in game 4 was pretty amazing.

Werner Herzog / Rock Art / Fresh Air / OnionAV

I love rock art, petroglyphs and pictographs. So a documentary by Werner Hertzog about a cave in France sounds great! And talking about it with Terry Gross...

The OnionAV interview is great, too.

Appalachia / NPR

I loved this story.

Bark Beetles / NPR

Haven't posted in a while, more computer problems. Nightmare. Good story about griz in Yellowstone.

Vietnamese Beef #2

Super Yum. Leeks, garlic, chard, ground beef. Rice noodles soaked in hot water till soft. Cilantro, cabbage, korean mint from seeds from the Philomath guys. Nuoc cham with a pimiento chile from the patio.

Artichoke Hearts 'n' Ricotta

Yummy slow fried artichokes on a bed of fresh ricotta.

Simple Soup

Stock, leeks, carrots, garlic, ginger, kale stems, brown rice, miso. No browning, just simmering.

old miso that Izaya brought me from Japan about 4 years ago

Ate it with Shoyu and homemade hot sauce -- made it kind of like hot and sour soup with the vinegar and hot chilies. Good, cause I'm sick -- see below, at school with a tissue up my nose so I don't have to wipe so much....

photo by the Bee

Foggy East Camino Cielo

I finally got to try out my new-to-me Marmot Bastille last weekend. It was supposed to be a quick trip to the SB backcountry and then a hike on the Blue Canyon trail. But our timing was bad, foggy up top made for slow driving, so we just camped on the side of the road. In the morning the fog was still thick, so we bailed. C'est la vie.

High clouds and low clouds

Lebovitz in Switzerland

Very, very cool post about a swiss restaurant.