June 10, 2010 - Day 91

With high temperatures hovering around 95 degrees lately, I thought this photo of snow from February might be refreshing.

June 9, 2010 - Day 90

A new spin on spaghetti - a combination of whole grain pasta and julienne fresh carrots, squash and green beans, and mushroom marinara sauce. Yum!

June 8, 2010 - Day 89

I guess May showers bring forth June flowers! These are so cheerful.

June 7, 2010 - Day 88

It took some work to remember where I saw this tree, but I found it again this afternoon. It's a mimosa, which I always thought would fit into Dr. Seuss' world very well. My great Aunt Marge had one next to her driveway, which was two gravel tire tracks amongst the grass on a fairly steep hill. Most of my life she drove a 1971 Ford LTD (a huge car), and I remember how amazed I always was that she could inch the car into the garage.

June 6, 2010 - Day 87

This is a closeup of the blooms on a rather striking tree I've seen around. From afar, the flowers look much more dark purple.

June 5, 2010 - Day 86

This is from the packaging of rechargeable batteries for the Wii game controllers. The instructions were obviously written by a non-native speaker of English. Some of them are not only unclear, but also a bit disturbing: I'm not sure I really want to know what they mean by "organic substance!" I do like the imagery of "straight of sunshine" though.

June 4, 2010 - Day 85

I had heard before that there are still areas in Dallas that are "dry" in regards to alcohol. In those areas if a restaurant serves alcohol it has to operate as a "private club" and you have to become a member to have a drink.  The gastropub where we had dinner is such a "club" (or, speakeasy, as we joked) that has dozens of beers on tap. This is a photo of the inside of the light shade above our table - hammered brass.

June 3, 2010 - Day 84

This time last week we were at The Granada, a great old theater in our neighborhood that features live music and sometimes movies. We saw John Ondrasik of Five for Fighting do a solo acoustic performance, and he shared stories of how some of the songs came to be. The Granada sends photos taken by its staff if you give them your e-mail address - pretty cool, since it's not easy to take photos in a theater!

June 2, 2010 - Day 83

A rather large mixing bowl of vegetable stock I made tonight, as seen from above. If I hadn't identified it, what would you have thought it was?

June 1, 2010 - Day 82

This is part of the burnt-up shopping center, which had great stone and brick decor. Even braced by the metal supports, it's still lovely. To see the charred and fallen remains of the building through the broken windows is both beautiful and sad.