Grandma Grace

My grandma died a couple of days ago. She was a neat person and had a big influence on me. She was a good cook, and when I was little I really looked forward to the box of homemade cookies, banana and/or zucchini breads, and fruitcake that she would send us. We would drive across the country from NY to Oregon/Washington every other summer and then we'd stock up on her jams and canned fruit & veggies. I especially liked the canned apricots and the canned cherries. Both of my grandmas did everything in their power to feed their grandkids well, I think it's the law for Lutheran grandmas to do so. In some ways when people visit my place I feel like a Lutheran grandmother doting on the house guests...

Love this, my cousin Jamie scanned it

Really love this, my cousin Breanna up in Kodiak took it

Kodachrome Away, Enter the D700

So kodachrome is done, as of a year ago. Many people miss it, including this guy, who got written up on CNN. He's buying old slides at garage sales and the like, scanning them, and putting them up. I like this one cause I always take thru-the-car-window shots on vacations.
Anyway. After shooting with little tiny digital cameras for a year I decided to upgrade to the Nikon D700. It's their cheaper digital body that can mount all of my old Nikkor lenses. Stoked. We're off to Baja in a couple of days, this trip is going to be pretty well photographed...

Modernist Cuisine at Home / NYT

Cool article about a dinner party using the Modernist Cuisine book from the microsoft dude.

Francis Ford Coppola / Onion AV Primer

good article

Organic, not local / NYT

Good article about the tomato farms in southern Baja.