Foliage...

...is cool. December is all about planting here in the fog belt. A trip to Building Resources and Flora Grubb has a little green going on in our urban jungle. Next stop--taking over the backyard for some serious veggie growing!!




PS tons of new trees on Irving between 6th and 7th! Go FUF!

Eating Less Meat Hits the Global Climate Conversation

Meat production on a corporate scale, is a huge emitter of greenhouse gases (not to mention a huge drain on our water supply here in CA). 

A lot of vegetarians and environmentalists alike have been talking about this on the fringes.  It's finally hit the discussion boards at global climate change talks. Check out this NYT article here. 

"Producing a pound of beef creates 11 times as much greenhouse gas emission as a pound of chicken and 100 times more than a pound of carrot."

Could I be 100% Organic?

A Doctor who ate nothing but organic food for three years reports he feels more energetic and gets sick less often on his all organic diet. A good read here.

Goodbye November.

I blinked and you were gone....

The last day of November=
a sun soaked flop out at the Botanical Garden
potting new plants for the front stoop
fall pizza at Park Chow
(that's right butternut squash and brussel sprouts on pizza. DAMN.)
& a sleepy sunday night of soup making and catching up
good night november.

Giving Thanks Beach Side

Made butternut+apple soup and roasted beet+goat cheese+spinach.

Post dinner-pre dessert seaside stroll. Thankful.

Experiments...

A week of them. Worm compost bin, started. First batch of homebrew, bottled. Skype, downloaded. Roux/gumbo, attempted. Breeders, revisted live=the most fun show, ever.

my camera is dying...

...a slow death. It is just about 5 years old & it's been good to me. But I think I have to move on. What kind of camera should I get??

Pained.

It is ridiculously beautiful outside & I'm stuck on the 28th floor, freezing in our air conditioned environment. At least I have a view....

I can breathe again.

Spent most of October and the beginning of November already, traveling for work and play--but now I'm back in the fog-kissed hills I call home.

Last Tuesday night, a weight I didn't even know I carried was lifted from my shoulders. I can breathe again. This country can find words and meaning again.

What I love most is Obama's unrelenting call to each and every one of us to take ownership over this country, to take responsibility for our lives and for each other. It's not all about the government, it is about how we live and give each and every day.

So much has floated in the interweb that is inspiring this week. Here are some tear-jerkers, and don't misses for you...What's inspiring you?

A Campaign in Photos: My experience of the 2008 election has been words, save the few debates, words spoken over the radio or seen on the written page. I'm glad these photos will be the few cherished images I'll remember.

A reprieve of Langston Hughes' " Let America Be America again"

An eloquent editorial from the Times. "You can’t proclaim freedom as you torture. You can’t promote democracy as you disappear people. You can’t stand for the rule of law and strip prisoners of basic rights. You can’t dispense with the transparency and regulation essential to modern capital markets and hope still to be the beacon of free enterprise."