Mount Desert Island, April 2008

Bar Island.

A beast's head.

Along the ocean drive path, in Acadia. Looking back toward Sand Beach.

Nothin' But the Best for Our Slugs

After noticing a few slugs on the basil and tomato plants, it seemed time to follow in my grandmother's footsteps and let the little fellows drink themselves to death. The only beer in the house was two thirds of a six-pack Wolaver's organic India pale ale. Wolaver's might be a little high class for slug-baiting, but since it's been hanging around the pantry for a while, I figured it'd do. That's taking organic to a whole new level!
Check out the cilantro seedling's little coriander hat. (Coriander is the seed of the plant, cilantro the leaves. That's my sort of two for one deal.)

Greenspired

Between the rising price of ... everything ... and an impending move to a big city where life promises to be more expensive (not to mention more toxic), I've been inspired. I am hereby eschewing brand names and making my own. So get ready for easy, cheap, eco-friendly events like sprouting beans, growing veggies, and make-it-yourself make-up.

Here, you can see three "square foot gardens" in progress. Our soil is better known as sand, so this is an apt technique. This morning I sprayed uber-strong garlic tea on some of the plants to fend off whatever little crawly has been nibbling on them. At least they'll be safe from vampires!

New Horizons at AndTheDonkey.com

Look! New pages are popping up and old ones are getting dusted off and shined up! AndTheDonkey.com's subject is now "a signpost for the vaguely bohemian." Please forgive any broken links and other messiness during the next couple of weeks while these improvements are pulled slowly but surely out of our metaphorical hat. Check it out!

Thirst

I am obviously suffering from inadequate exposure to ocean air, which would explain why I'm watching tourism vids about places I've already been to and/or lived in.

Who Needs New Year's Resolutions...?

...when you've got a January thaw!

You might have noticed I've been neglecting this blog...what with the holidays, graduate applications, getting the Talk to Strangers Campaign up and running at TalkToStrangers.org, various obligations, and the general gray malaise of winter, I'm afraid it's taken a back seat lately. But having accomplished (or survived) the first four hurdles, nature's taken care of the fourth, and today I'm sitting in a room full of sun and fresh air with all the windows in the house open! I've done yoga, done the dishes, dunked my bread in olive oil instead of spreading it with butter, and had more glasses of water today than in the past week combined; drinking more water is inevitably one of my New Year's Resolutions...but that's a story for another post.

Ladies and Gents, We Now Introduce...Winter!

Odd, a little bit (okay a lot) of snow transforms my backyard from a nice but modest place into something everyone wants pictures of. So, for all of you who didn't get a snow day this week, here 'tis.