Music and Cats

The abundance of edible riches available at Seattle’s farmers’ markets this week made eating locally a relatively simple — and quite delightful — proposition. With raw ingredients as fresh as these, we tend to cook simple meals that allow their flavors to really shine.
Last Sunday, the first day of the One Local Summer challenge, we […]

Late yesterday afternoon, my car’s odometer rolled over to 100,000 miles. (As I was looking for a parking space at the time, I was able to capture the event at very slow speed.) My little Geo Prizm has served me well for 14 years, but I don’t think I’ll see it reach 101,000 miles.
Around the […]

Last night, Paul and I saw a world premiere at the Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF). While there was no red carpet, we did stand in a line that snaked around the block, we said hello to three of the film’s stars as they walked past, and we hung around after the screening for a […]

Before we moved to Seattle, I’d heard of peonies, but I don’t think I’d ever seen one. When we arrived here in June of 1999, we spent a month in temporary housing just a few blocks from Pike Place Market. During those first days, when Paul was at work and I was at loose ends, […]

The cat saw me before I saw him. I had paused during an afternoon walk — on an unusually balmy, sunny second day of Spring — to photograph his garden, and it seems he was curious. (Obviously, no one in his house points a camera at him regularly!) By the time I spotted him, he […]