Peter Rowan / Fresh Air

lovely.

Killer Waves

It's been a bit of a slow fall here for surf, but in New Zealand the waves have been killer. Errr, there have been killer whales in the waves! Good find Casey.

Recent Food Pics

Bee + parsnip cake with lemon/cream cheese frosting

chicken from farmer's market, roasted with veggies

single crust apple pie-like dessert

Sergio Aragonés / OnionAV

An absolutely wonderful interview. He has been a cartoonist for Mad Magazine for a long time and I loved Mad as a kid, so I recognized his name immediately. But even if i wasn't predisposed to like him, there are so many interesting nuggets in the interview. Really, one of the best things I've read in a long time.

the Dirty Life / NPR

I liked this one. It had the potential to be a cutesy back to the land story that doesn't seem realistic/sustainable, but she is walking the walk and talking the talk. In theory I wouldn't mind having a farm, but I'm nowhere near as hardcore as she and her husband are. Butchering animals is emotionally not easy for me, hence I don't eat much meat, but they are doing it. Harvesting 10,000 lbs of potatoes doesn't seem trivial, either. A good listen, and I'm wishlisting the book...

Loretta Lynn / Fresh Air

solid gold.

Eli Wallach / Fresh Air

solid gold. but too short.

Pee-Wee Herman / Fresh Air

starts a little slow, but very funny towards the end

Keith Richards / Fresh Air

slightly combative (misogny in Stones lyrics...), but pretty good natured.

Chorro Grande area, near Ojai

We went up to the Chorro Grande area in the mountains in back of Ojai last weekend. We stopped in Meiners Oaks on the way up; Sara visited with her friend Jen and I tooled around town on my bike, noting all of the fruit trees with fruit on them -- grapefruit, oranges, persimmons, pomegranate, etc. Lovely. The next day Sara went for a hike with the spatial group, I puttered around in the hills on the other side of Sespe Creek. Full album is here.

sunrise, cold

water for coffee, stove operated from sleeping bag

the bee

native (?), pretty

one of the benefits of dating a jewish girl

selective focus

lichen

Quercus dumosa (?)

Mountain Mahogany

This is as far as I got on my hike, stopped by the chaparral...

views from the ridge I was on, looking E (above) and NW back to the cars (below)
the bee and the spatial crew went N over the ridge near the cars and up the big mountain, something like a 3000' gain.

Sespe Creek bed

Mtn Mahogany

sorta selective focus

there were lots of blue jays hanging out in the chaparral

selective focus, Chia

view on the other side of the ridge I went up

more chia

little pinyon pine

oak, cork

the little ridge I went up on

Sespe Creek

clouds coming over the ridge

Bee's watercolor of the little hill we parked next to

Why Cats are Better than Dogs #555

Some love from NPR about the physics of how cats drink. Pretty sweet.