Tuesday, October 29, 2013

EVERYBODY deserves 49 seconds of peace…

Use your 49 seconds wisely :).  
Sharing a slice of ours…
With YOU.

Monday, October 28, 2013

Autumnal sunshine. Or, walking around on a lazy fall day…

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Hanging lanterns waiting for cooler nights to be lit and sparkle
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Some still budding
Others…
fading.
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Gates to the secret garden jungle
painted
adorned with a new handle.
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Jungle continuing to jungle
Those are hoses. not snakes.
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I think monkeys may live here.
With us.
one never knows, in the jungle.
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Forgotten statues become unearthed when the leaves drop.
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...I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house.
So I have spent almost all the daylight hours in the open air.
                                                                                                     ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, 10th October 1842

Saturday, October 26, 2013

While much of the world is going inside…

feeling cozy and warm

WE, here in the tropics,

are opening our doors and windows

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Letting some long awaited cool{ish} breezes

to come wafting in

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Welcome Fall!

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Wednesday, October 16, 2013

You gotta try this….

I am SINGING the praises of
this here
knife.
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I got it for my birthday
every girl’s dream, no?  But…YES!
I am AMAZED how beautifully
it works
compared to every knife I have ever, ever used. In my whole whole life.
and I only use them for cooking….should this post sound a bit…odd.
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See those wobbly lines? each is another layer of the metal…
the knife has no drag, and releases amazingly.
Every time I use it…I keep saying OMG….and ask ANYONE around to try it.
I was not approached or paid by SHUN to say this.
They are just THAT good.
OMG….you have to try this.
SHUN knives. 
Carry on.

Sunday, October 13, 2013

Finding fall in the subtropics….and a pumpkin recipe…

It is always a different kind of fall
that we celebrate here in the subtropics
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Our lemons are fruiting
variegated lemon…pink inside!
We feel the change in the climate…subtlety. We see the change in colors…Beautifully.
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It rolls in much slower, more casually.
Daring you to notice.
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Blue ginger
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Paths throughout our jungle of a yard
I love finding some of these vestiges of seasonal changes and bringing them in the house
with some small pumpkin gourds in an old French baguette mold
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Then using some vegetables of the season…creating a touch of fall for dinner
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I used some canned pumpkin pasta sauce….but you could make your own
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Pumpkin and Fontina Cheese Lasagna
Based on a recipe from here (click on photo)
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Happy Fall in your corner of this wonderful world!

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