Lately…

I may have a slight obsession with vanity plates.
I’m not usually a tea drinker, but this day it seemed right. Can’t wait to install these on the grill.  Cooks who say they don’t like/need fancy gadgets are lying!Was going to save this for the beach, but already started it.  Has anyone read it?
Chesapeake Bay BridgeThe first of probably a hundred tomato sandwiches that will be consumed this summer.
Figs, pistachios, lavender honey and goat cheese.  You know…just an appetizer. I am addicted to the app, akinator! Missed this guy for the past two weeksA quiet celebration
At 48, my brother became a first-time dad!  

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Stayed at our first pet-friendly hotel.  Ziggy was not impressed (he slept with on the bed with us, per usual) First watermelon of the season! dessert at Portalli’s:  chocolate coconut martinithree engagements and one wedding on the same day at the vineyard
it was the kind of day you want to raise the roofgrilled my first whole chicken.  It was so succulent!
Saw my first MLB game in a while-the Orioles swept the Yankees in a three game series! Ziggy’s favorite riding spot for my husband who doesn’t like selfies:  Leave me alone.  I’m only speaking to my dog today. saw this sign while we were driving through the Virginia countryside looking for somewhere to grab breakfast……which led to this wicked good breakfast choice!
street lamps at the vineyard cool looking clouds gerbera daisies blue ridge mountains beautiful sunset, but my husband needs to clean his windshield! this guy was amazing!  In addition to the guitar, he played harmonica, flute, and some mouth organ thing-y. cute bomb!

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Trying out an iPhone 5 fish eye lens.  Makes my feet look huge! Blueberry whole wheat waffles for our son’s last breakfast home before shipping off to the grandparents The tomatoes are just starting to emerge (Please no pests, please no pests, please no…) Finally made it to this place!  I thought I liked the Resurrection Ale before, but now Ozzy is my favorite! Sadly, these are the only local strawberries I’ve had this year.  We weren’t able to get out to pick and the season has been cut short by rain. Doing some cleaning and came across this old cell phone.  It looks so archaic now!This beautiful pillow cover from this Etsy shop.  Thinking about ordering another!

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In the houses where teenage boys reside, fart jokes are funny
a sith lord lives among us, apparently
morning coffee with the new Kinfolk magazine Got these vintage-y blue Ball jars at Target. A new drink recipe may be in the works! from the B’more farmers market

at the one year anniversary celebration of the Food Market in Hampden
back to work this week at the farm!

back to square one best breakfast sandwich 

duck pizza and Resurrection ale on the rooftop at Cacao Lane 

Iphone panoramas just look weird
out of this AMAZING, DELICIOUS creamed honey given to me by a coworker.  Must.  Get.  More.

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Checking this one off the list: I tried a Boh-tini- National Bohemian beer with an Old Bay rimmed glass.  So Baltimore!
My darling granddaughter The outside space is shaping up My son’s piano recital pieceadventures in kimchi
This stunning photo of Breaux vineyards.  I didn’t realize at the time how well it turned out! Breakfast from the Blacksauce Kitchen food truck:  Brisket, free range egg, arugula on homemade biscuitbeauty at the Baltimore Farmer’s Market Bazaar
Cute cake pops for a baby showerMy father passed away in 1999.  This was his favorite chair. Now it’s in my brother’s baby’s nursery.  Way cool.
prepping for the morning juice
PB & P treats for the piano recital.  May have to put these on the blog.  

 Before the recital.  If you have 4 minutes and want to watch a video, it’s here.

I’m having a blog-aversary!

 After two years of blogging (wow, I can’t believe it’s been that long!), I’m updating the site.  Thanks for taking this journey with me and I hope you’ll be back to see the fresh look (pun intentional!).

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Mother’s Day gift:  Pear and star anise jam from Atwater’s

The melt-in-your mouth pork nachos from this truck might cause me to become a stalker!

Remnant of an interesting old doorway in Clipper Mill
Abandoned building.  Wondering what this used to be.
gathering at Union Craft Brewing
This is what the garage looks like when you get off work at 11:30 pm Twice a year:  out with the old season and in with the newweekly Friday afternoon happy hour date  Late night tapas and Lazy Susan cocktails (in honor of Preakness) at the Rumor Mill Leading in the category of “beautiful shoes that I have no business buying because I’ll never wear them”Watched this fascinating documentary.  I have three print reproductions hanging in my hallway and new visitors to the house sometimes ask “Did you take those?” One of these times I’m just going to say yes (as if!).The weekly reads

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The weeping cherry tree in the front yard finished blooming

white pants before Memorial Day.  I’m such a maverick! (not)

don’t usually wear nail color, but loving this one lately-Pilates hottie by Essie

breakfast: egg white scramble with cremini mushrooms, toast with cremed honey, fresh squeezed orange juice

Sometime during every Washington Capitals home game (usually the third period), the “Unleash the Fury” video clip is played and whips the crowd into a frenzy!  

We got to go to game two of the playoffs, Caps vs Rangers.  Caps won in OT!

After game pizza at Fuel while waiting for the Metro crowds to die down

Saw this  in the garage while walking to my car after work.  I needed that laugh!

My B/W sunflower photo looks kinda like an eye

Ziggy’s favorite place to curl up lately-right in the middle of my thinking space

Only 10 months after buying the new car I was rear-ended by a new driver 😦

Trying to root some clippings of this Vinca for my flower boxesPreach, Bloo!
On the Metro heading to the Caps game

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There’s not much I can say about what has happened this past that hasn’t already been expressed.  The anger, sorrow, and the question of why just simply cannot be comprehended.  In her post on her blog, Foodloveswriting, Shanna writes “It seems to me that the beauty in this world is ever in conflict with the darkness that is also always present.”  As Christians, the promise of a world with no more pain gives us the hope to navigate through the brokenness that will always be a part of this world.

Last summer I visited Boston for the first time.  This week I decided to post a few of my favorite photos from that trip.

 

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A walk in the park

First hockey game for us this short NHL season

We rocked us some red. So did the Caps-they beat Carolina!

I always check out more books from the library than I can possibly read in two weeks (Does that mean my eyes are bigger than my brain?)

A birthday gift. Love this bottle!

Poached my first egg. No biggie.

Julia is practicing driving. This IS a biggie!

First dinner on the deck: healthy homemade sweet and sour chicken (recipe here)...next time I’ll halve the siracha for the wimpy eaters in the house!)

First cast iron skillet was purchased. What should I make??The youngest had oral surgery. The boo boo pig (similar) reminds me of when he was littler.

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Full moon over the Atlantic ocean

View from our balcony in Virginia Beach

The only other guy on the beach besides us was this kite flyer

Sun going down

We ate here two nights in a row (it was that good!) Order from the chalkboard.

Sun going down again

I retreated to our room to read for a bit, but my husband stayed on the beach and napped

Seen on the beach-a little Americana

Bundled up on the beach.  Hats and shoes were shed by afternoon when it warmed up into the 60’s.

Little people came to visit 

 

Absorbing everything in this cookbook.  Two brothers who cook and are easy on the eyes?  Yes, please!
Only a couple of these beauties left!