4th of July BBQ, better late than never

These were hiding on the D200, finally got them off of it...

 a decent photo of me for once, not too photogenic...

 Jeff, at the tail end of Vermont -> south Pacific -> SB

 Amy, S+S

 Jeff got a NICE piece of halibut, we had some good organic hot dogs and some veggies and peaches to grill

to Oregon and Back 2

Mostly shot by Sara, from the other camera, D200 with a 55mm lens that is stuck at f2.8. Looking at these, it's fun to only use one lens and deal with it!

 the money quote

 southern Oregon

 cutie

near Bandon, I think

 Ferndale cemetary

 Lost Coast

 Humboldt Redwoods S.P.

 Westport

 Carmel Beach, shadows and sun

to Oregon and Back

Sara drove up, then went to Minneapolis for a meeting. I took the train up the following week, made blackberry jam, watched food network, saw my Grandpa and some of the family. Low key but nice. We drove back together, mostly on the 1. I edited photos from the D600 down to 186, so the following are a short-ish snippet of the sights.

near Salinas

rainbow, Klamath Falls area

sights from the south jetty in Newport

Prairie Creek Redwoods S.P.

Lost Coast

Humboldt Redwoods S.P.

near Kibesillah

Fort Bragg

Point Arena cove, yogurt/melon/blueberries

near Salt Point S.P., I think

Russian River

Pt. Reyes Station

Carmel Beach from Carmel Point

camera 2 photos

NPR Throwback Weekend

Last weekend was interesting on NPR. Sunday morning the host was Susan Stamberg, who has been with NPR since 1972, not that I've listened to NPR for anywhere near that (since 2002 for me, more or less), but still pretty cool to hear her re-taking the host's chair. Prairie Home Companion was a re-broadcast from May of 2000 and was awesome. Randy Newman is great. ALSO, it was the first appearance of Nickel Creek on Prairie Home, they were 18-19 years old. Really fun to listen to.

Some throwback pics while I'm at it.

Lizzy Girl

Lizzy, the garden cat, this morning. It's a little bit of a "where's Waldo" picture, but not too bad. This is a fairly common pose for her.

Canned Peaches

Blow up your T.V. throw away your paper

Go to the country, build you a home

Plant a little garden, eat a lot of peaches

Try an find Jesus on your own

Used the Ball Blue Book method for canning peaches, hotpack style. You boil them briefly, then put in icewater in order to slip the skins. Then simmer them briefly in a medium syrup -- 2.5 c sugar to 5 cups water, something like that. Then hot peaches into hot jar, put on hot cap, tighten band a bit, finally into boiling water for 25 min (quart) or 20 min (pint jar).

I made 3 quart jars and 3 pint jars of peaches. They're going to be tasty in January...

Recent and Semi-Recent Food Pics

Haven't been feeding the blog much lately. We have been eating, though. Massaged kale salad with peaches in it was good. Been eating alot of peaches in general. Lots of rhubarb. Was a terrible year for apricots in Goleta, so I made a bunch of plum jam instead. Anyway, here are some recent dinners:

 the oldest new pic. fresh favas on top of pasta, circa probably april

 purple carrots from the garden, went into a stir fry

 vietnamese crepes with Hearst Ranch ground beef, mung beans that Sara sprouted

 a russian recipe, cabbage baked in dough, kind of. wasn't that good, alas...

 basic pasta plate

 lamb loin chops, farro, tzatziki, heirloom toms

steamed and then sauteed root veggies, all from the garden: sweet potato, parsnip, purple carrot, yellow carrot, red potato, french fingerling potato