little house in ruins

a brief collection of things I took notes on this week (or looked up, or described to my husband over coffee, &c &c). some of these have a whole post of their own brewing. cultivating an experimental mindset I got about three minutes into the Mia's Digital

common yarrow manzanita bigleaf lupine diamond clarkia fringe cups and snowberry douglas aster & western bleeding heart common yarrow & farewell-to-spring common camas (blooming) & great camas douglas spirea woodland strawberry felis catus (invasive) red…

my contribution to the april grizzly gazette carnival, hosted by oracle of sages: "your favorite unconventional animal" There were a few contenders for this one - my longtime devotion to the giant salamanders of East Asia, stately Alhambra tortoises, the…

Some throwback photos1 of our california poppies in bloom.

I brought out the Big Camera for our spring trip to Mesa.

A couple of years ago, I read Bram Stoker's Dracula for the first time.

c. 2007, a classmate and I went on a picnic during which I confessed my unrequited crush on a boy named Shawn Anderson.

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