Welcome Jasper's Edge Farm!

A big giant welcome to my dear, dear friend Regina!  I am so excited to see her in the blog world.  She has a lovely farm that is in its 5th Generation.  She raises exotic sheep and spins this amazing yarn.  Please visit her blog!  She can be found at jaspersedgefarm.blogspot.com/

Her yarn is sold under the name Esther Purl Fibers and she can be emailed at estherpurlfibers@gmail.com

 She is a very creative soul and I hope that she gets "Paint the Farm Red Days" going soon!  There will be more information to follow as she works out the details.  She is an amazing wealth of knowledge of all things!  Please take a moment to link to her blog! 

This snap shot is a "before" picture she sent me while she was working out the accessorys for her back entry.  Darling! 

Maybe we can get her to post pictures of the AFTER! 

Details Make the Difference

So Loving the Vietmanse Coffee Press.
Love that is was brought to my table this way
left to drip, drip, drip onto the sweetened
condensed milk.  Need to visit the Asian Store
to get me one! 

All done, mixed, and ready to drink. 
Those wonderful details make all the difference.  I
actually had someone make me a Vietmanese Coffee at a
fancy restaurant with "Flogers" and Sweetened Condensed
Milk.  The horror!  This was so lovely.  Thank goodness

for camera phones!  This tiny detail made the food even more wonderful.

The #28 in case you were wondering! 
Yum! 

and gone!   

"I Spy"

The weather has been too hot for long walks with the dog.  Believe me when you drag out a 80 pound Lab who would rather cross his legs than go to the potty, it is too hot!  Sitting in the AC all day has me dreaming of walks in my neighborhood. I stumbled on this during another one of my cell phone purges.  I have walked by this lone gate about a million times and just now noticed the little "Garden" label on it.  So charming!  Such a great detail. So glad that I didn't miss it entirely. 

I guess it should go without saying to "Stop and Smell the Roses" or to "Be in the Moment" or what-have-you.  There are just times when we are so tangled in our own thought processes or noticing other things around us that it takes a couple of passes to notice these tiny details.  Sometimes you notice them subconsciously and don't realize it!  I do that alot with design projects!  But really, putting down the MP3, and just looking around you can yield the most wonderful pleasures!  Tiny details that someone so cleverly thought of, fresh air, quiet space in your mind.  When the weather cools down a bit--I am outta here! 

PS--My son and I often play "I Spy" and have noticed lots of amusing details.

SIDEWALK ART

 SIDEWALK CANVAS

Walking down the trail at the lake were these wonderful paintings of the local wildlife on the trail.  What a wonderful medium and way to reach a large audience.  I found it espically useful when pointing out the different paintings to my son and then finding them alive and well in the local landscape. 

Seems like a wonderful spin on sidewalk chalk which leads me to dream of having my sidewalk with some of these animals painted on it. 



Notice the pedicure. . .

so much for cropping the picture! 

Cell phone camera's are not my forte! 

Black and White

Saturday Study in Black and White.

Asian Temple

Downtown.

This wonderfully colorful building has amazing details that show up best in black and white. You might normally miss them in color.  Taking Black and White snapshots of the rooms you are wanting to remodel, stage, redecorate are a great way to pick up lost detail, too! 

To The Farmer's Market we go. . .

Saturday Mornings can find me wandering to the Farmer's Market.  Especially in the spring and early summer.  The mornings are cool and overcast and make for excellent black and white photo ops.  Today I found the last of the Roma tomato plants that must be in this weekend, baby Swiss chard (am making a Strata for dinner tomorrow) and the last of the rhubarb for Rhubarb and apple crisp.  Perhaps my favorite time at the market is crossing the pedestrian bridge, coffee and son in tow, and dreaming of great meals to come.  Happy weekend and happy cooking!