All posts tagged Summer

tuesDAY…

…included a trip to a really cool art supply store, the Natural History Museum, the Butterfly Garden, a tour at the Japanese Friendship Garden for just the 3 of us and dinner at the Farmers’ Market (I had a sweet corn and poblano tamale, so good!).

7.4.2011

  We went on an early morning hike today. Some of the things we saw: dragonflies, butterflies, hummingbirds, spider webs, poison oak, lichen, native plants and dog poop. We all agreed that people who don’t pick up after their dogs are really lame.     The two in front chatted, while the two in back [...]

CSA SHaRE

I am a bit of a CSA nerd. I love to talk about CSA’s, read about them, visit the farms that offer them and most of all enjoy one. We were with the same farm for a very long time and loved all the produce we were receiving, but for the last year we have [...]

{Sun}FloWeRs

    Ahh, Summer.

{WaRmTH}

     ”Then followed that beautiful season…Summer… Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light; and the landscape Lay as if new created in all the freshness of childhood.” ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow    

:: Farmers Market Favorites ::

We go to the Farmers Market at least once a week, sometimes twice. We are very lucky to have such wonderful markets to attend that they are so close by. I’ve gotten to know the farmers at our markets and just like the meals that I make for my family, I know they are so [...]

SoMe WeeKeNd FuN

Over the weekend we took my mom who was here visiting, to Balboa Park. We all can’t get enough of the new exhibit at the Natural History Museum (All that Glitters). The gems and minerals that are on display are just amazing. We learned all about crystals and how they grow, how gold made it’s [...]

SuMMeR RaiN

We don’t get a lot of rain in Southern California-Fact. It hardly ever rains, let alone in July-Fact. It rained big fat, yummy drops yesterday-Fact. No one knew what to do-FACT. I took pictures, so I could remember the July rain.                 Come again soon Rain.