Found an absolute unit of a tomato growing
One more time, like the old days
My wife made a hummingbird cake
My therapist wanted me to give up
Made a trolley problem to torture my friends in recovery
A visualization of my experience treating bipolar disorder with mood stabilizers
My first Christmas cookie of the year
2 Chainz P99 Dating Advice
An ornament on my mom’s tree
My poppies popped over night
Pumpkin cake with chai buttercream frosting
Today I fed baby goats
Tomatoes
Peonies from my mom's flower farm. I wish you all could smell photos.
Painted a rock for my garden
Smoking a Romeo while I weed around my tomatoes. And harvesting dahlias.. Communing with God, you know.
My true love gave to me…
Happy honey bee among the sunflowers
Hosted pre-Thanksgiving dinner
Hung some new art in my basement
Marriage.
My son Mac is having his first birthday today; for his "Big Mac"-themed party, we made burger cupcakes and a piñata. I decided to photograph it like I found a wild hamburger in the jungle.
Finished decorating my son’s room to a “woodland” theme
Morning tomato harvest
"Song" by Brigit Pegeen Kelly, 1994 Lamont Poetry Prize
My new garden flag
Half of this morning’s yield
My mom texts me from her farm random content like this with no explanation
This specimen of man at the Eagles game
The “centerpiece” my mom created for a wedding that is actually an entire tree covered in flowers.
My title for this collection is “Faceless Father”; it’s an artistic representation of the dying but still fighting middle class (or me just trying to scare my wife with a dollar store mask)
My mom took the puppies to the vet in a wicker laundry basket
Spinach and feta omelette to celebrate small caps dying
I "homemade" cookie dough ice cream by making vanilla ice cream and adding three different types of store-bought cookie dough to it
My mom's border collie had puppies today, and I was wearing my cow costume when I met them; my mom laughed and said they look like MY babies
The lobster sandals my mother-in-law got me
Budget activity on the beach: Buy cheap water color sets and paint shells.
Flicking your bean becomes yoinking your oink
Planted the last of my tomato seedlings; I’ll have San Marzano, Cherokee Purple, Eva Purple Ball, Black Prince, Mortgage Lifter, Dr. Carolyn, Midnight Snack, Green Zebra, Brandywine, Tropical Sunset, Spoon, German Pink, and German Lunchbox.
“Rambling Rose” from Spiritual Awakenings II
I made “crab cakes” from lion’s mane mushrooms
A simple salad of home grown greens, basil, and heirloom tomatoes (Brandywine, Pineapple, Nebraska Wedding) with mozzarella cheese and balsamic vinaigrette.
Depalo Foods pizza dough, Trader Joe’s Cajun Style Alfredo Sauce, Shredded Parmesan, Southern style (with bacon) stewed tomatoes (that I grew), butter seared shrimp, fresh parsley.
I used Adobe Illustrator to make my kid's first-day-of-school poster; those are actual quotes
Homemade cherry ice cream with chocolate swirl
Tonight's about to get wild
Gonna spend the afternoon playing an all-time favorite
Remembering my dad (RIP) today with a triple-decker sandwich of: rosemary sourdough, grilled chicken, turkey, ham, Swiss, Colby-Jack, lettuce, tomato, mayo, Dijon mustard, hoagie spread, and onion salt.
Careful analysis of SPY this week...
Time lapsed my 4 o’clocks, which only open their trumpet flower late afternoon
Grew potatoes for months
Three slices of Dave's Killer Bread; deli ham, turkey, salami; grilled pork chop, chicken breast, and Vidalia onion sliced; bacon; Swiss cheese; Old Bay and ranch brined pickle slices; heirloom tomato (Cherokee Purple); sorrel; Hellmann's; salt and pepper
My garden’s reaction when it’s finally June after an unusually cold and gray May but then smoke from thousands of miles away blots out the sun
Hung frog posters on a stick I found
I made my 10-month-old son avocado toast this morning. I hope he doesn’t like it or he’ll never own a home or pay off his student loans.
Morning projects for my son's room
Wife got a good pic of my daughter and I watching fireworks
My wife is going out of town next week, leaving the 3-year-old and 10-month-old with me; this calls for a serious meal prep