My Week - Four Photos

Four fun things from this week.

1. Yummy veggies from our local OZ Farm CSA box.

2. Sticky bun and chai latte from Two Fish Baking Company.

3. Surprise in the mail from friends ... the miette baking book!

4. Scout, our new cat, who likes to "help" me at my desk during the day.

What made your week fun? 

Camping in Point Reyes

We spent last Sunday night camping at the Coast Camp in Point Reyes with our friend Meghan. It's a very easy three mile walk in and out, with at least half of the time spent along the coastal bluffs. We did our research and reserved a site that would afford wind protection and ocean views. Campsite No. 3 was perfect!

Bob brought the tiny camp stove and we had whole wheat pasta + sauce for dinner. Appetizer was a rustic baguette from Raymond's Bakery in Cazadero and goat cheese. Bob even carried a bottle of red wine to have with dinner (bonus points for him!). For breakfast  we enjoyed warm museli with dried cranberries + brown sugar. We never go hungry when we camp, that's for sure. 

Bread

"To brew beer, to make cheese to bake a loaf of bread, to braise a pork shoulder, is to be forcibly reminded that all these things are non just products, in fact are no even really 'things.' Most of what presents itself to us in the marketplace as a product is in truth a web of relationships between ourselves and all the other species on which we will depend. Eating and drinking especially implicate us in the natural world in ways that the industrial economy, with its long and illegible supply chains, would have us forget."

From Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation by Michael Pollan

Five Photos: Memorial Day Weekend

Morning coffee checking out the tide book for prime tidepooling hours.

Napping. 

Volunteering for our harbor seal docent shift at Tidepool Beach.

Getting to spend time with Bob!

Sunset at Black Point Beach with friends.

Six Months of Coffee Photos

I am about six months in to my Daily Coffee Photo project. Though I have not taken a picture EVERY day, I've been keeping up.

I have the complete set over on Flickr and upload new ones as I take them. I invite you to take a look. It's all right here at this link.

What I love most about this project is that it serves as a visual journal. Who I was with, what I ate, what my view was or what book I was reading.

I plan to keep going for a full year and then I will decide what will be next for these images. I've already printed a few with Printstagram, which has some cool ways to use Instagram images.

Do you have any ideas of what I can do with the images?

Daring Greatly

"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."

Theodore Roosevelt - "Citizenship in a Republic,"
Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910

We Did It!

We did it! I was able to reach my Charity Water goal of providing clean water to 41 people for my 41^st birthday. Thank you to the following kind and generous people who helped make this happen.

Adriana

Annie

Anonymous

Bob

Caroline
Emily

Emma

Janessa

Jenni

Joe

Katherine

Lynn & Trudy

Mandira

Nancy

Nicci

Nick

Susan

Tristan

My sister and her family

My parents

Honestly, going into this I didn’t know if I would reach my goal of getting $820 in donations. However, someone once told me that if you don’t ask, it’s like you are getting a “no” anyway.  So, I asked. I asked on Facebook (several times) and I asked on Twitter and people donated. 

In addition to donations, people shared in the enthusiasm of the project, told their friends and served as cheerleaders, which was equally as awesome. In the end, my total was $961, more than $100 above my original goal. 

So, now it’s time to get on with being 41 years old, whatever that means. Thanks again everyone. I really appreciate it!