…surprised us hungry bikers – on my first night in town preparing for 2013 projects at the Walker Art Center – with a delicious organic meal prepared and served from their tricked out bus/kitchen parked in a beautiful wild community garden (with bees and and rain garden) occupying a previously vacant lot just south of ..
Archives : August-2012
…the beautifully designed book edited by Nancy Holt and published six years after his death in 1979 by New York University Press (kindly presented to me last night by my friend who found it at Logos Books & Records, the very awesome Santa Cruz bookstore – with a surprisingly extensive knitting section by the way ..
…is striking on these hot summer midday lunches slicing up big fat juicy warm tomatoes with a bit of salt and olive oil on homemade bread after trips to farmers markets in Campbell, Los Gatos, Saratoga (where I am in residence for a f..
…gets me every time I find myself sucked in by the orbit of a yarn store these days – which I had previously lived my life impervious to, since I just learned to knit in June – and today in Campbell, California the site of my mania was Green Planet Yarns, where I succumbed to ..
…in the form of an elegant wood box perched high on a post out my door here in the hills of Saratoga seems to be waiting for a..
…we shared at the end of our meal last night (which also happened to fall on Julia Child’s 100th birthday, marked by the restaurant with a special menu) was agreed among all at the table to be a mind blowing revelation of ripe fruit perfection – begging the question to yourself ‘have I ever really ..
…with Alice Waters this afternoon (wearing the crazy 10 foot long triangular multi-indigo-blue linens and cottons shawl/scarf I had just knit and presented to her at lunch – relieved that it was actually wearable) was a much anticipated first chance visit to the revolutionary and influential garden and ‘edible education’ program she founded in 1996 ..
…is what I am tentatively calling this latest (pretty gay) knitted creation that seemed to emerge out of my busy needles without much planning – which started with super fat wood needles and some organic Japanese hand-dyed cottons, continuing into smaller needles and some some substantial brilliant blue wools, and terminating in a triangle of ..
…or Cylindropuntia spinosior, in the cactus gardens buried in the sloping pine woods of the Montalvo Arboretum and County Park – lights up with a halo of back-lit low sun this evening on a long-anticipated exploration of the grounds around our artist colony studio where we have our noses buried in work for ..
…or Achillea millefolium is a favorite pollinator attractor, providing a broad horizontal landing pad for lots of good airborne visitors – today found in Montalvo culinary fellow Niki Ford‘s garden just down the hill from my studio-for-..
…is the name of Kevin West’s canning, jamming, culinary endeavor and if you’re lucky enough to have him over for a meal, he’ll even bring you some of his preserved creations, which we are still enjoying (apricot & lemon) spread on our fresh spelt bread every morning while in the Bay Area woods on a ..
…the trail-blazing artist couple now based in Santa Cruz whose work I have been aware of since college days – their early work taking the form of radical dirt, farm, and orchard making projects, were inspiring and charming dinner companions tonight at Montalvo (the artist residency where Lorenzo from NERO has joined me for a ..
…we visited yesterday – all males at the moment, sunning and molting on the beach – along the California central coast off Highway 1 was one of my top animal encounters of all time, enhanced by the helpful Friends of the Elephant Seal volunteer who answered questions and offered fascinating insight, like for example the ..
…the classic motel monument to California kitch at it’s most exuberant and flamboyant – conceptualized and constructed by the butch cowboy builder of freeways, Alex Madonna in 1958 and the site of my parents ill-prepared 1968 honeymoon trip from a wedding in Santa Barbara – was a natural – very pink – pit-stop for us ..
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