Me and Donny in Brooklyn

Alison in Australia

Poppies at Home

Farmers Market Saturday

Georgetown has a farmers market, which is a lovely way to shop for food, and flowers, and crafts and junk. There is a lot of hippie crafty things, too much for my taste, and not enough random junk-- but the food and flowers are high-redemption. After living in a neighborhood with no supermarket, getting locally grown food locally feels extremely special. There was even knife sharpener there-- and how many times have you thought about wanting to do that, but not really been sure where to start? I know a place on Saturdays...

I got these poppies plus a lot of other yummy things in preparation for a party/barbeque. This is Wyatt and I out in front of All City Coffee, which has the 2nd best coffee in Seattle. I feel so Clarissa-Dalloway-on-Bond-street with my big bouquet of flowers and my urbane dog.

Closeup Rose

Family & Flowers

This is Alison in the garden by our fence of roses.

My roses and some climbing peas are the only thing looking at all good so far this year. My basil is dying, our string beans are not growing, all the stuff I planted from seed (exception, previously-mentioned peas) are fully stunted. Last year there was a garden walk in mid-July, and I was fully harvesting tomatoes and cucumbers, this year, it seems like it will be impossible. We decided not to participate anyway (too much work to prepare). I suppose this is what happens with gardens and weather, I'll try to just be thankful for the pretty roses.

My lovely loves

This is a quick picture from a recent outing to La Conner, which is a cute little waterfront town just past the Skagit valley (tulip town), but before the San Juans. We took a day trip as an excuse to drive the new car, and to get out to somewhere we haven't been yet. I always feel like I am missing out on Seattle in some way-- in the winter we are always scheming about all the things we will do (hike, camp, etc.) and in the summer we are so happy it is warm, we lay around in the garden drinking cocktails and taking the dog to the park. Anyway, this trip t La Conner was an attempt at seeing what there is to be seen.

The first stage of the fix....

That hole is deep.

Home Ownership

Ok. So, we have a major plumbing issue at our place. Trucks had to
come, holes were dug, a Russian guy in a Corolla tried to take our
dirt. It was a long day. This is the scene.