View from the bottom of the driveway

flowers flowers flowers

And away we go

basket of fairy tale eggplants and various hot peppers

I will take the primeval whine-roar of a trillion cicadas over the pathetic sci-fi fanboy whine-plea of one electric car any day.

My weekly newspaper, per a recent discussion around here.

Lancaster Farming News, page one and classified ads

A little something for World Turtle Day.

chip carving of a turtle with legend Yellow-Bellied Slider, carved feame painted moss green

Hummingbirds. This one is larger than the others (6x8in.) so will have to wait for a frame until I place another order.

chip carving of two hummingbirds in a swirl of flowers

Steamed Chiogga beets, golden beets, and carrots with a pesto of fresh basil, green cayenne pepper, green garlic, preserved lemon and olive oil. The confluence of garden and CSA produce was weird enough that I may never make this again, but it was awfully good.

as described in the post. very colorful!

multicolor profuse flowers in a garden

Lovebirds again: as before, facing each other over an unopened blossom, suggesting that they wait together for a greater love. The flowers this time are drawn from the love-in-a-mist I photographed the other day, and sketched from various angles, and simplified until I could carve it.

chip carving of two birds facing each other over unopened blossom; vines encircling them in the shape of a heart; many flowers; red-painted frame carved with woven triangles

Appalling as it is, Apple’s new ad is perfectly on-brand, and makes a nice bookend with their first famous effort, forty years ago: it is what you get when liberation becomes not a means to flourishing but an end in itself. (Or, more cynically, a means only to consumption.)