New Skills

Christmas baking is underway and this house smells like gingerbread.  This is my first foray into rolled and cut cookies as well as (gulp) attempting to decorate them.  Practice with Royal icing is about to commence.  Thankfully these cookies are destined to be ornaments and not edibles.

It's always good to learn new skills.

Speaking of new skills, my two portfolios; Abitazione and Farms and Barns are going on sale this weekend at the Carmel Visual Arts Center in, well, Carmel.  These portfolios are sets of small to tiny photos contained in the above boxes.  It doesn't matter if they sell or not, I'm enjoying working on expanding the portfolios.  I've fallen intrigued with the small photo collection in a box format and will continue with these cherish-able photo findings.

In bocca al lupo.  m (no v)

The Baker Man

An early summer evening on the Central Coast. The sun has been eclipsed by a thick, misty marine layer.  We close the windows against the chill.  Before succumbing to the gloom v decides this is a great time to bake some bread! O happy baker man!  

Now we're cozy.  The ballgame is on the radio.  We're sipping our neighbor's new recipe for limoncello. We'll have a quick supper of bacon and eggs then play a little chess at the kitchen table.  We're in happy anticipation of a visit from a friend from Berlin. She's arriving tomorrow at San Francisco International. We're planning to set out early in order to stop at the beach for a little breakfast picnic which will, of course, include some of v's fresh bread which has rescued what could have been a very gloomy evening.

Domestic bliss!

In bocca al lupo.  m & v