Life gets messy sometimes.

A rainbow!

The Chesapeake Bay at sunset. It was so perfect.

Brunch with some of my favorite people on earth.

I picked raspberries today. I got eaten alive by mosquitoes, but it worth it for the jam.

I realize that this is almost the very same picture I posted yesterday. I’m still figuring out this whole working from home thing and in the last two days, it has resulted in me not leaving the building in over 48 hours. Oops. Gotta get out tomorrow.

This is the first picture I’ve taken for a new series I’m thinking of starting for Food in Jars. I plan to call it Preserves in Action, in order to document the ways I use all the food I can. On the left, Birchrun Blue drizzled with lemon verbena honey and on the right, the same cheese with last summer’s damson plum jam.

Looking west on Walnut Street. Fall is coming.

I love the pink scooter at the end of a row of big, burly motorcycles.

Just about once a year, Scott makes a batch of eggplant parm (here’s the 2010 edition). He cuts the eggplant very thin rounds, lightly coats each slice in egg and bread crumbs and then bakes each one into a tasty, crunchy chip. Once they’re nicely browned, they are layered with ricotta, tomato sauce and mozzarella cheese into a oozy casserole. It’s good. I propose making it a twice-yearly occasion!