October 2007 Archives

Wildfires & humans rarely mix well. We're 300+ miles away and our air smells like the arse end of a city bus. Nature loves its mechanism for rebirth, it'll still look like hell for a while though. But damn man! Look what wildfires do for sunrises!

Course you have to be up at sunrise to catch it, this is why you have me. You're welcome.

xo, Biggles

Addition later on that same day.

Okay, so I'm going through the 20 some odd shots I knocked off this morning and found more worth posting. Man, oh man oh man oh man.

Now this one, this one, wow. Just take a moment with the picture enlarged and check out the detail and contrast and colors in those clouds. To the right first, then to the sun itself. I want to walk around and look at these every second of the day.

Biggles

Biggles spent the workday at his computer, didn't pull away. He'd finally figured out a few things while he was htmmelling and was running late to get out of there. Off went the two 21" tube monitors, camera bag in hand and off he flew. Out and down the hallway, keep going and make a left through the machine shop. Ever so quietly he tossed the deadbolt to the side and slipped out in to daylight. Biggles cursed, "Owie, that orb burns." As he approached his shiny blue wagon, he noticed something huge and mechanical on the ground at the driver's door.

Creepy E said, "Here's your juicer, foo."

Awesome Z (my 12 year old boy) started middle school this year. Wahoo, for several reasons. I believe one of his favorite things is that he doesn't spend the entire day of school in one classroom. Every hour or two he's off to another class, neat eh? Yeah well, one of those classes is something called Woodshop. Yup, you know the one. Uh huh, you're getting the idea now. One of his projects was to make a cutting board, a really nice one too. And as you can see, this woodshop is sportin' some fancy ass ... thing that allows one to put pretty letters in to wood. My chest is out at least 3' feet today, am so proud.

Biggles

It was a sunny, yet brisk Thursday afternoon. We hadn't had high roasted chicken in quite some time, my mind turned towards gravy. Chicken fat, translucent minced shallot, flour, broffs & a dollup of creme fraiche. Oh yeah baby, chicken and gravy for dinner!

After hairs cut, off to El Cerrito Natural for some Rocky Jr. feel good chicken bodies. Tiny E wanted to come in too, he's a come-with kinda boy. At the meat counter he asked what was for dinner, roasted chicken of course. "Oh Papa, can't we have delicious pork chops instead?" Even at $10.50 a pound, I conceded.

Tell me why my heart sank when I saw these chops in the butcher's case?

Biggles

Saturday morning found Biggles thumbing through a few cookbooks. He ran across a recipe wherein the roast was cooked all night at 250 degrees F. With a nod, some rustlin's, and note taking, he was off.

Please read on and find out why he's never going to do that again.

Hi everyone and happy October! I'm on the trail ends of a dumb head cold and am still wacked out on cold medicine. My food related inspiration doesn't exist at the moment and I have nothing in this arena to offer. I need to get muh stremfs back and choose a path to wander down. And then?

I've lived in the San Francisco Bay Area my entire life and I don't remember seeing clouds like the ones I've seen for the last few months. The air here seems to be tons clearer than years past. The blues are bluer and the contrast, textures captivate me. Oh sure I've seen amazing clouds before. I've driven through Oklahoma in tornado weather, Kansas in the same. One year in Montana I was able to spend an entire July with daily thunderstorms. We just don't get weather and clouds like that here. But I have to say, we're kicking some serious cloud ass these days.

Want another?

Do you see what I'm talking about here?

I'm seeing this stuff nearly every morning. As I'm driving out to lunch I have my nose pressed up against my wagon's front window in total and complete awe. And yesterday as a rainstorm was heading in, I was getting images like this at 2:20 in the afternoon!

I love clouds.

Biggles

ps - And oh by the way ...