Anthony Bourdain / OnionAV

good article

Landsat 5 is done, too

This might be too much of a coincidence. On the same day that Regis Philbin retired the USGS released a press release that the Landsat 5 satellite is being put out to pasture. AND, the press release was released during that final Live with Regis & Kelly show! hmmm......

Regis

I haven't watched the show in years, but there have been times in my life when I watched him daily. Fresh Air did a nice interview with him.

JTree Halloween 2011

We went out to the desert to avoid Halloween in IV. An excellent idea in theory, but people came there to party. Doh! Images are from my two olympus cameras. Full albums here, here.

White Tanks Campground

looks like a turtle poking out of its shell or something

sunset, 1st night

Queen Valley Mine area

sunset 2nd night

Sara carving a pumpkin

JTrees and boulder field

sausages and 'taters, pumpkin, cukes pickled in escabeche liquid

Hall of Horrors area

Key's View, wind farms in distance

Barker Dam area

White Tanks, last morning

Caviar Limes

Caviar limes are 25 cents a pop at the co-op. Looks nice on orange crème fraîche sherbet, no?

Bittman, the Santa Barbara Syndrome

"This kind of approach — grow what you can close to where you live and eat what you can grow — is obviously nothing new. (Even in my lifetime, I can remember seeing asparagus only in late spring, Macintosh apples in the fall and Empire apples — long keepers — through the winter.) What’s new is the lack of farmland, because much has been lost to sprawl or commodity crops, and farmers who can make it happen, farmers working on a scale between sustenance and industrial."

the whole article

One NUGGET in his article was a link to this article about the Santa Barbara syndrome. In our country we export 99% of what is grown here. AND IMPORT 95% OF FRUIT & VEGGIES THAT ARE EATEN!!! Holy Cow! David Cleveland, UCSB professor and garden friend is quoted thusly: "Picture two produce-laden tractor-trailers passing on the highway, one bringing food into the county; the other hauling it out."

Here's the UCSB press release on the Cleveland study