1. Caterpillar to Butterfly
(LIFE/Wildly Facinating)

...week or two completely eating every scrap of vegatation off of the butterfly bush to prepare for the 15 days in the cocoon. ...

2. New Beginnings
(LIFE/Wildly Facinating)

Life is running in technicolor these days. Doesn't seem to matter what channel or day or time as all is more vivid - the blues bluer the days longer... imagination becoming reality on a daily basis.

3. The Littlest Big Man
(LIFE/Latest)

...live near any of the dry creek beds that they turn into a coyote freeway at night... especially these days after the Goleta Gap fire when they were all pushed lower off the mountain. The creek bed ...

4. Christmas and New Years
(LIFE/Latest)

... real holiday since leaving "that other place." I took the liberty of spending the entire ten days i had off being horribly sick and getting my brother ill too. We ran around the city lookin...

5. The Lazy Roaster
(EAT/DRINK/Foodie Research)

...t. I'll report back when i do. UPDATE: Tastes good! Holds up well in milk drinks. I'm giving it a few days to de-gas and settle. ...

6. The Time is NOW!
(LIFE/Latest)

...o come home to... Keep your eyes, ears, minds and hearts focused towards this country during the coming days, weeks, and months. Pray that change occurs soon. ...

7. The early years.
(LIFE/Joie de Vivre)

...nd Zora's arm; the sicko museum which had wax displays of how people were tortured in Australia's early days (what is the point of that?); And pizza, they really just didn't know how in the heck to ma...

8. Love is like oxygen (or chocolate covered orange sticks).
(LIFE/Love)

I always enjoy checking in on Molly of Orangette - even more frequently these days since her wedding and subsequent honeymoon. It's a site about her love affair with food, life, and newish husband who

9. Garden Dog
(APERTURE/Photography)

...d or oddly tinted. The photos below connote a moodiness which did not exist on these brightest of days - outdoors in Eugene and in my backyard garden.... so i'm chalking this up to "operato...

10. So ya wanna cook a Zuni Chicken?
(EAT/DRINK/Beyond Words)

... petit 3.5 lb friend. He was salted then herbs from my garden wildly shoved under his skin. After three days of dry brining in my fridge, i introduced him to "Stella" (my fabulous Grill Dome...

11. day twelve, class nine
(LIFE/Joie de Vivre)

...and went about 2-3 times a week for 4 months before my trip to Thailand last year. Twelve days ago i bought a month unlimited pass at the Ashland Bikram yoga studio. I have to say it has...

12. Duane's Big Night
(Archived/EAT/DRINK/Foodie Research)

...3475.jpg Day 1: Duane has been prepared Zuni Cafe style and is ready to dry in the fridge for a few days. images/stories/food/img_3476.jpg Day 2,3: Here's Duane after three days. The skin ...

13. Another Year, Another Turkey
(Archived/EAT/DRINK/Today's Menu)

Every year i receive a frozen turkey from my employer and every year i find a new way to torture my little guest. This year was no different and i took my special dinner guest "Alfie" on a