Why do we keep getting *just* enough rain to keep the weeds happily popping up? 🌱🌱🌱😭🌦️⛈️🌧️ #garden

For the sake of truth in advertising, everything that says “made with ❤️” should be legally required to have actual heart in it

Los Angeles sunrise #LA

I have become obsessed with seaweed snacks—so today I combined a trip to the Southbay with a visit to one of the local Korean grocery stores and this was a GOOD idea—it is sooo much cheaper than the local Pavilions #food #LA #snacks

The primroses are consuming all in their path—fortunately, I’m fond of them #garden

Bit of the yard—don’t look too close—it’s nicest from a distance 😉 #garden

Ordered a ridiculous amount of bbq because it has been that kind of a week #bbq #https://mapleblockmeat.com/

Wild iris and pomegranate flowers #garden

Yet this is so privileged— I as a poor person never bought berries . Poor people buy ramen or rice or beans.

A Secretary bird which is a bird of prey native to Africa.

A Secretary bird which is a bird of prey native to Africa.

I enjoy the evening light (Major is looking for crane flies) #caturday

This is my most successful year ever for sweet peas #garden

Aloe season is wrapping up—the heat wave is probably to blame, but they’re still nice #garden

Did not turn out as I wanted, but I may try this again #tolkien #nazgul #eowyn

Chalk board with a conversation. Me: This escape room is hard. Friend: This is a bookstore. Credit: Daisy Chain Book Company

The hardest room to escape.

Very tiny tomato harvest from the volunteer plant #tomato

Taco salad because that’s what St Patrick would have eaten if he was born in SoCal ;) #food

“down the dank mouldering paths and past the Ocean's streams they went
and past the White Rock and the Sun's Western Gates and past
the Land of Dreams, and soon they reached the fields of asphodel
where the dead, the burnt-out wraiths of mortals make their home” #asphodel

Major knows his best side is his tummy #cat

I do enjoy Brat Farrar, Ms Pym Disposes, and The Franchise Affair (in that order)

Done!

I do not understand the hate Daylight Saving gets—if you fly from LA to Denver do you bitterly bemoan your crushing jet lag? Also, Daylight Saving helps give us our lovely long summer evenings. 🤷🌞🌞🌞

It was 90 today in my part of LA…90!!! I just went out and did some emergency night watering 🙀😫

By adding pepper, you can change any regular potato chips into salt-and-pepper chips. Follow me for more great hacks ;) #chip #hack

I guarantee that using that on cats will not lead to ‘extra pur’

One thing the ‘info’ tool in iPhoto is good at is identifying butterflies—this is a red admiral

One of my favorite poems about art. another is:

That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall,
Looking as if she were alive. I call
That piece a wonder, now; Fra Pandolf’s hands
Worked busily a day, and there she stands.
Will’t please you sit and look at her?

www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43768/...

Ah, thank you—you have taught me the name of one of my no-id plants

A nice dinner at Broken Spanish—if you go, sit outside—it was shouting or lip reading inside #dinner

Wild irises, vinca, and geraniums