Ripe black cherries, whole cloves, cinnamon sticks, and blackstrap molasses lovingly infused four weeks in Absolut vodka. About the infusion. Back east, a dear friend of mine used to make a sour cherry infusion with a pound of sugar, a … Continue reading
The Beatles present their incredible new album “Abbott Road” with these brand new tracks: Baby You Can’t Find My Car I Don’na Feel My Hand Here Comes the Snow Help While My Snow Shovel Gently Weeps The Long and Buried … Continue reading
This is in honor of my friend Peter Kendall, who is a real chemist. I only play one on TV. When people say something particularly noteworthy or funny at my desk, I say, “Ding Ding Ding Ding Ding! YOU WIN … Continue reading
The line of unusual triangular-shaped clouds resembling prayer flags draped over Green Lake are called mare’s tails or fall streaks. On this particular evening, rising air was on the verge of creating cirrus clouds, and a passing jet shifted the … Continue reading
Watching the Toro Nagashi celebration at Green Lake with my friend Tina, who was visiting from Buffalo. From the Seattle Times: “Lanterns honoring the victims of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are placed in Green Lake. It’s an adaptation … Continue reading
Born this date in 1898. And we are certainly richer for it. In late 1997, I went to see the centennial exhibition of Escher’s work at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. It was the first time I … Continue reading
This will be the place I stash my shortcuts.
Some of the newer cameras have a panorama feature that allows you to press the shutter button and pan the camera left to right, thereby recording a smooth 120 degree (or so) image. (An example here.) I wondered if the … Continue reading
The housing market has definitely turned the corner, and there are many places being sold to investors. East of Monroe, there is a twenty acre lot with an abandoned mobile home and a 48×48 metal building that sold last month, … Continue reading
A spring shower mixed with hail. The gods must be crazy!
I saw something interesting on SR 2 in Monroe – I had no idea that aircraft bodies were shipped west by rail to the Boeing plant in Everett.
I spend a lot of time in slack-jawed amazement at the choices people make, and the things they value and esteem, mostly at the expense of other things. (A residence in Index, WA.)
I moved out here to get away from this shite. Downtown Everett: