Raul

we have a black bear, raul,
that has routinely visited us this fall.
he's a cute fella, big but cute,
but nocturnal, so it's hard to get a good picture of him.
this is the only one we have. and i just realized you can't
really see raul at all.
i feel like a crazy lady insisting i see
the profile of Mary on my toast or something,
but i promise if you look closely,
and probably for a long time,
you can see raul's silhouette.
or maybe you'll just have to take my word for it.

flashback friday...farm party style

so, the other day,

elsa pushed a couple of keys on the keyboard,

and erased all pictures from the past six months.

she managed to do something in one second

that would take me a year (minimum) to figure out how to do.

and to know me is to know it would never occur

to me to back pictures up on an external hard drive,

so all i have left are pictures i hadn't deleted from my camera yet.

hence, a flashback post.

right before elsa's bday and

while all grandparents were in town,

the farm behind our house, peas farm,

threw one wonderful party.

they grew all of the yummy eats served that night,

along with wine and beer from the vineyard up the road

and the brewery downtown.

it was a really, really beautiful event.

everyone there was smiling,

and hal said he felt like he had been teleported back to

boulder in the sixties. great day, great day.

just look at this cute couple! i think this is my favorite picture

of my parents.

grEEtINgS EaRTHliNGS....

happy halloween from our little astronaut and his martian sidekick.