Two things are impossible to resist in the middle of winter: color and a broad swath of sunshine.
Category: Photos by Kay
Today’s nominee
Access to this area of the bluffs at the Dungeness Recreation Area is discouraged. It’s sandy, undercut, dangerous, and a long way down. And it’s a clear favorite for people looking for Darwin Award nominations.
Cake adventures
A couple of years ago, on a trip to Arizona, we visited the Queen Creek Olive Mill for lunch. Lunch was very good and we finished with pieces of lemon olive oil cake. As I’m wont to do, I had it just because it sounded different. Okay. It sounded weird. After eating it I regretted not buying some to take home. Crazy good!
Fast forward to last Christmas. Our relatives gave us a gift pack of oils from the Olive Mill. And the lemon olive oil cake memory flooded back. My cookbook library yielded nothing, but, of course Google had a few suggestions. A little goofing around and fine tuning and voila! It’s not exactly a sunny lunch at Queen Creek, but it’s very close. And I’m glad I took a picture because this cake disappeared much faster than I care to admit.
What do swans eat?
For a month or two I’ve wondered if we might see migrating swans again this winter. I’ve kept an eye on a couple of fallow fields and was rewarded Monday. Trumpeter swans!
It was a small flock, lunching in a field. They ignored me until I began to get into camera range, then they’d move on. These were the best shots I could get.
Here’s lunch. This field was full of turnips and carrots left after harvest.
Rockin’ out
First we came upon this smiling face on our daily walk.
Later we found this little grin.
Is this the beginning of a happy movement? Sign me up!
Wood, moss, and lichen
Putting in a fence is so much work it’s a shame the toll that time and weather can take on it.
Saluting Martin Luther King, Jr. today on his holiday, and honoring his courage and vision.
Tools
There’s a barn at Lazy J Farm where tools are displayed that I suppose you could call “historic,” or at least well used. These are sister hooks which are used for lifting things like logs or hay bales.
These may be more familiar though I admit to never having used one. The longer handled tools are scythes and the shorter ones are sickles. Both are swung and employed as cutting tools. When I think about the work they did I’m glad for the sorts of labor saving devices we have today. And I’m not about to romanticize it, but I suspect that a good many of the people who worked these old tools were more fit than those of us who use labor-savers or sit entirely too much with computers and the like.