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Friday, July 1, 2011

Evening chez moi

Californian multiculturalism hits my Alaskan dinner table with frijoles de la olla, Spanish rice, and stir-fried bok choy:


Whom do I think I'm kidding? This is a more appropriate amount of cheese for me:


The girls and I have been taking a second walk in the evenings after the temperature cools down. Here is the view looking down the main road through our 'hood:


One of our neighbors has this black dog and these two chihuahuas that come savaging out at us in the evenings. The black dog has no courage without the chihuahuas; if they are inside and he is outside alone, he doesn't even bark at us. But the chihuahuas are savages, and egg him on!


A shot down the power line road:


Blue sky!


Sunlight filtering through the trees:


The fireweed is starting to bloom, which makes me a little melancholy. They blossom from bottom to top, and when the top blossoms open, we have two weeks until the first frost!






This is Harmony Way. Isn't that the loveliest street name you've ever heard?


After we got back, there was a brief, heavy cloudburst:


After the storm, the sky turned blue again:

1 comment:

Rena said...

Extremely fond of rice and beans over here in all shapes and forms. Jamaican rice and peas with ginger, Louisiana red beans and rice, Moros y Chrisitanos, arroz con gandules.
All so satisfying and stick-to-your-ribs.

The fireweed is truly beautiful. It's hard to imagine how beekeepers can say that their honey is from fireweed as it is a wildflower and they have no control of their bees' flight patterns. Still, fireweed honey is among my favs.