Category: food is wealth
Honey & elderberries (small things photo).
Here is a tiny jar of elderberries. Misha’s really into the elder tree right now (for proof click here), and I’m really into small things right now, so I took some elder berries he’d dried and put them in a tiny jar with a rubber lid that I bought at the herb store. And next to it is the honey that I get at the farmer’s market every week, which Sam loves and Kathryn also loves, in fact Kathryn made a honey pie out of that honey. Sam just eats it out of the jar with a spoon. I wish I had a tiny spoon as a part of my miniature collection. Soon, little spoon.
I like how the honey looks like it’s the proud older brother of the elder jar. Like it’s puffing out its chest a little.
Things that are small & grown in Imperial Beach (the series continues).
Sometimes a day involves burying dead chickens and stripping lemon verbena for tea. Sometimes that day also brings the tiniest of tiny carrots into your life. For me, that day was Wednesday. I was harvesting carrots for lunch with Misha and pulled out a handful, including the tiniest of tinies!
Here’s a shot of the smallest four, which I brought home (the others were eaten in a salad).
Then, on Thursday, I planted melons and lettuce and stacked onions for drying. And found a small onion for this project.
Then, while looking through photos, I found this one that Misha took last summer, where my face is big and shiny and strange looking. But look what I’m holding!
Onions & tomatoes come from Suzie’s Farm; the carrots are from Wild Willow.
Stay tuned for more tiny tinies!!
Things that are small: farmers’ market edition (photo series) (mine).
Hello and welcome to the 2nd installation of Things that are small, where I’ll show you a fruit lineup, featuring the smallest of doughnut peaches. Doughnut peaches are like regular peaches that got sat on by very small butts. Perhaps squirrel butts? That’s funny to think of.
All fruits pictured are from Sweet Tree Farms, one of my farm bffs. Annie is their farmer (remember when I wrote about her boobs in a poem?) and yesterday was her birthday. In honor of it we all sang terribly and ate carrot cake. But nevermind carrots! Today is about tiny peaches!
Things that are awesome (Sunday edition).
garlic scapes are awesome
roses smell awesome
tampons are awesome
women that use diva cups are awesome
old ladies who dye their white hair purple are awesome
men with babies strapped to their fronts are awesome (so is anyone with a baby strapped to their body)
bare feet are awesome
mixed recycling is awesome
happy hour prices are awesome
bicycling feels awesome
tie dye is awesome
“Made in the USA” is awesome
having a sister is awesome
homemade hot sauce tastes awesome
grilling is awesome
finishing projects is awesome
making pancakes for yourself is awesome (so is making pancakes with anyone)
driving a tractor is awesome
getting high on coffee is awesome
artichokes are awesome
handshakes are awesome
wordplay is awesome
DJ names are awesome
blueberry season is awesome
reading is totally awesome
i think rollerblading looks awesome but i only did it once so i don’t know for sure
being taken out to lunch is awesome
feeding people is awesome
riding shotgun is awesome
James Brown will always be awesome
writing poems is for sure awesome
giving poems to people is awesome
whiskey is awesome
ginger beer is awesome
old friends are the most awesome of awesome
homemade muffins are awesome
thrift stores are awesome especially the sunglasses section
records are awesome
the word “platypus” is awesome and so is “spritz”
hip hop lyrics can be really awesome
bartering is awesome
letters in the mail are undeniably awesome
bacon is awesome why didn’t anyone make me eat it earlier it so so goddamn awesome
summer coming on is awesome
Misha is number 1 awesome
treasures are awesome (like bird bones or gemstones)
wind turbines are awesome
root beer floats are awesome
notebooks are awesome especially new notebooks
woodcuts are awesome
worms are awesome
herbs are awesome
friendship bracelets are awesome
monks are awesome and so are nuns
hats are of course awesome but we already knew that
getting an mfa is awesome and i’m almost done doing it!!!! awesome over & out.
Happy Passover (I’ve been cooking) (image).
plus I made smashed potatoes with fresh chives and rosemary. the matzoh balls are made with spelt matzoh and coconut oil and the charoset has organic diced sour cherries in it. in honor of tradition, i’ve cleaned the house of (some) crumbs. and i’ll be very, very hungry by the time we eat (it’s not passover unless you’re starved by the process!). happy first night of passover/and happy easter on sunday/& happy springtime coming in/& a very happy full moon to us & plants. amen.
panache, perhaps 