Music and Cats

I know, I know, another photo mosaic. Well, they’re fun to make, and the 50mm lens on my camera right now is not so good at, as it were, the big picture. One of these days, I’ll put my old lens back on the camera, but right now I’m enjoying getting to know this one.
So, […]

Last week at the farmers’ market, I was chatting with our farmers Siri and Jason when a man came to their stall looking for salad mix. Siri sold him a bag of Local Roots’ delicious spicy salad greens. A few minutes later, the man returned with the bag of greens. He pointed out that some […]

When I picked up this week’s box of produce from the front porch, I got a whiff of something very green. Oh, yum, basil!
Today’s box from Local Roots Farm contained:

Big bag o’ basil (the aroma when I dumped it into the bowl was amazing)
Couple of tomatoes (the larger one was dinner tonight, with a little […]

We arrived home this evening from several days on Vancouver Island to a box filled with:

Bunch of beets with greens
Bag of spicy salad mix
Bunch of Walla Walla sweet onions
Purslane
1/2 pound salad tomatoes
More beautiful purple potatoes
Summer squash

Yesterday evening, Paul and I drove east, over the lake and through the ‘burbs and beyond… all the way to Local Roots Farm, where Siri, Jason and Dan were hosting a farm dinner. Before dinner, we wandered around the farm, checking out the chickens (some of whose compatriots we would later eat), talking with Dan […]