Snow!! And the Vietnamese coffee maker!
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Friday, December 18, 2009
It really is a shame that my camera died back in october
--because i would love to post gorgeous pictures of salt lake city here!!
i can not say enough good things about salt lake city! it was beautiful. literally every single person we met or talked to from the salt like flight crew to the airport to the bus drivers to the residents to hotel workers to the monk we hung out with, were amazingly nice and kind. it was as though we had enetered some alternate universe where everyone was kind and happy. truly unbelievable. there were oodles of kids in salt lake! every family was super young with at least three kids but simultaneously super nice. we never once heard a parents raise their voice...i can honestly say that we had an amazing experience in salt lake city. seriously.
but yesterday, we flew away from that land of gentleness and into the crazily populous san fran bay area...let's just say people haven't been so sweet here! still, we had a very fun few hours consuming at the ferry plaza building along the waterfront! and now, we're here in palo alto. palo alto=consumerism!!! yikes! i don't think i've ever seen so many strip malls and stores in one place in my life! i've also never seen so many really great looking asian restaurants in america as i have here. noontime just might find me eating pho and drinking vietnamese coffee!
luckily for us, we have a rental car and will be heading south once keith finishes his interview this afternoon. we can not wait to discover a less populated and beautiful california which i'm sure awaits us! tonight we stay in a cabin by the coast (thank you dear ariane!) with a fireplace!
i can not say enough good things about salt lake city! it was beautiful. literally every single person we met or talked to from the salt like flight crew to the airport to the bus drivers to the residents to hotel workers to the monk we hung out with, were amazingly nice and kind. it was as though we had enetered some alternate universe where everyone was kind and happy. truly unbelievable. there were oodles of kids in salt lake! every family was super young with at least three kids but simultaneously super nice. we never once heard a parents raise their voice...i can honestly say that we had an amazing experience in salt lake city. seriously.
but yesterday, we flew away from that land of gentleness and into the crazily populous san fran bay area...let's just say people haven't been so sweet here! still, we had a very fun few hours consuming at the ferry plaza building along the waterfront! and now, we're here in palo alto. palo alto=consumerism!!! yikes! i don't think i've ever seen so many strip malls and stores in one place in my life! i've also never seen so many really great looking asian restaurants in america as i have here. noontime just might find me eating pho and drinking vietnamese coffee!
luckily for us, we have a rental car and will be heading south once keith finishes his interview this afternoon. we can not wait to discover a less populated and beautiful california which i'm sure awaits us! tonight we stay in a cabin by the coast (thank you dear ariane!) with a fireplace!
Sunday, December 13, 2009
the olive oil muffins are made,
the laundry is done, the bag is packed (well, almost...), and we're soon to be off. to the mountains, to the coast...so looking forward to this change!
Saturday, December 12, 2009
Week End
early morning laundry--the only time for laundry for me...amaia's chant of "weekend, weekend," yesterday--how did she know? present plans whilst drinking creamy tea...keith asleep in the next room. and what to explore in california??? oh the possibility!
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
More Good-ness!
The delight I feel at getting to work each morning and seeing amaia and hearing all the new words she's learned to say...the way her little eighteen month old self greets me with, "Mornin'!" Yesterday's snowman...Butternut squash soup and vegetable galette for dinner tonight...Only three more days of work for many weeks! Leaving for Utah/California in six days! And...leaving for India in just two months! Wow.
Sunday, December 6, 2009
My Goodness!
Only three weeks left till Christmas! Today: more glitter pinecone ornaments, lentil almond stir-fry, starting to make these sweet acorn ornaments and getting super excited to go to Utah and California in just one week! Thinking about letterpress, my lack of computer skills... And this beautiful blog: the art of seeing things. Donning down--it's cold!
Saturday, December 5, 2009
Christmas Is Coming...
Today:
breakfast polenta, fat snowdrops on our cheeks and tongues as we carry our tree home, cold fingers! hot chocolate from a tiny teapot, chickpea hotpot and black bean brownie leftovers for lunch, listening to sufjan stevens christmas music as we decorate, cinammon orange clove water simmering on the stove, drippy wet windowpanes, this amazing website for sigur ros live, this shop. also, making this granola bar recipe and missing my camera!
breakfast polenta, fat snowdrops on our cheeks and tongues as we carry our tree home, cold fingers! hot chocolate from a tiny teapot, chickpea hotpot and black bean brownie leftovers for lunch, listening to sufjan stevens christmas music as we decorate, cinammon orange clove water simmering on the stove, drippy wet windowpanes, this amazing website for sigur ros live, this shop. also, making this granola bar recipe and missing my camera!
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