finally an opportunity to view lauren's flowers...

okay, so i have been missing out on the delightful insights that Lauren shares with you all about gardening, the environment, and everything in between. I am here now and excited to participate in this thing called BLOGGING. wish me luck...lauren, i love you. thank you for sharing the love!

The Kitchen Garden, Part II

As promised, a photo of the field of winter squash. There is also watermelon winding around in there.

This is actually not my backyard. We cat/apartment sat for some friends in the spring and one day I brought over a handful of seeds. See what happens when you leave me alone at your house?

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Cloud Cult covers Tambourine Man

Kudos to Laura for spreading the work about this lovely song today:

"if you want to have an amazing friday you HAVE to go here and listen to cloud cult cover tambourine man - i just heard it on my internet radio station (www.kexp.org) and it's amazing...seriously amazing

http://kexp.org/aspnet_client/KEXPViewMediaGroup.aspx?rID=2735&pID=528&fID=1105&date=1105
then click "MrTambourineMan"

you can also supposedly download it at the link below, but i haven't had any luck (sadness...):
http://noyetidance.blogspot.com/2005/09/cloud-cult-mr-tambourine-man-mp3.html "

And if you haven't yet heard Dar Williams cover "Comfortably Numb" then you are missing out.

These Shoes Cost $300

Talking about Joey's blog reminded me of this priceless music video he found on YouTube. It's profane. It's marvelous. I am so inspired.

B-links

My buddy Joey just started a marvelous blog where contributors post about their latest wacky/awesome/chilling find on the internet. I've been spending a lot of time there lately. Check it out.

Eco design

I have a house that still looks like a dorm room threw up in it. So this weekend I focused my energy on dividing the clutter into "leave as is" and "repurpose into uber cool DIY design project." So far I have large pile of AOL cds, but hey. Cool mobile? A mosaic?

Anyway, a-inspiration hunting I went on the internet, and found this neat-o blog: http://www.inhabitat.com/. Inhabitat is all about sustainable design, and I discovered that the first Cradle to Cradle house is being built in none other than good ol' Roanoke, VA. Roanoke must be the hippest little town that doesn't look hip. Maybe it was built on a magic node.

(The philosophy behind cradle to cradle design, set forth by architect and author William McDonough, is to produce materials that can be used, recycled, and used again without losing any material quality. Sounds simple, until you read that most of our current products cannot be recycled without loss in quality. Basically, we're downcycling, a mere hesitation before the item ends up in the trash anyway.)

Another awesome find on the blog is Ian Goshner's box table. I definitely have boxes in my dorm house. I will make furniture out of them and protect their surfaces with AOL coasters...

Read Recommendation

I highly recommend this book. But only if you have the time to devote to it, as it will grab you and it won't let go until the end. Luckily I had a 26 hour road trip to Massachusetts and back. I even resorted to depending on the headlights behind me to illuminate the page. Do not fear - I was not doing the driving at the time. But there was a guy in front of me at a toll booth that I know for sure was driving and reading... worse than cell phone drivers, them reading sorts...