Adorable Aria

This is my friends Jeff and Ela's wee girl Aria: one of the sweetest, smiliest babes I have ever had the pleasure of hanging out with.  Sometimes it really sucks being so far away and missing out on the daily lives of these amazing little beings my friends all seem to be producing, but it makes it extra special when I do get to visit.

my new view

Goes pretty well with fried Okeover oysters on a sunny afternoon.

mushroom paintings

Spring sketching excursion

First meal outside for the year!

Home-made pizza, green salad and champagne, on the deck, as the sun went down - bliss!

seafood chowder with local clams, shrimp and steelhead trout

Oh, and the potatoes, tomatoes, celery, garlic, bacon, parsley and thyme were local too :)

Farm to School Map

Here is the Farm to School map I made with the students of James Thomson Elementary; it shows the eight local food producers they visited last year as part of the F2S program, and some of the animals and plants they saw there.  The idea is that the kids can stick icons of different foods onto the map to show where each F2S meal came from, so now I need to take it to the city to get laminated (although at 3.5x2.5 ft it barely fits in my car!)