Red Cedar
More apocalypse, less angst
nightfall
nightfall and my house is very quiet after a weekend of lovely houseguests. this was a good new year’s gathering, and tomorrow i go to get my wisdom teeth pulled out and then another week of lying about my house trying to simultaneously heal, do the union work i was supposed to be doing the week bob died, and prepare for a final psych exam….. urgh to all of it.
i snapped this picture off my front porch, and it makes me really want a tripod for night shots. i had to stack a bunch of books up on the porch railing to get the camera still enough, and there is still some motion blur in it… but the sky tonight was gorgeous as the sun set between the trees – it’s cold and clear, unusual for this time of year.
new year's day
a walk by the sea at the close of the first day of the year…..
new year's eve
darcie, steph and thi hanging out in the pillow corner (photo by anna)
this posting is for the folks who wanted to come along to my place on new year’s but couldn’t make it for one reason or other – it was a chill evening with good food and lots of talking sauce… i present for you here photos, our menu for the evening, and a recipe that pete asked for.
new year’s eve menu
red pepper dip (recipe below)
hummus
bruschetta (tomato garlic and olive tapenade topped with jack cheese)
salmon soup
vegetarian chili
green salad
homemade bread (by giles)
chocoloate cupcakes
apple crisp with soy vanilla ice cream
cheesecake squares
truffles (made by darcie)
fruit cake
mulled wine
another desktop
from the pictures of the oak tree in the bleak field taken on christmas day i have created one more desktop in the forest series…. though this is less foresty than the others – i’m not sure how i like it yet, i’m just seeing if i can live with it for a few days but i’m sharing it here in any case….
collective tragedy
i haven’t posted about the tsunami and earthquakes in southeast asia because i haven’t really known what to say in the face of it all. having just lost a single important person in my life, i keep thinking about all those hundreds of thousands of people who are losing an important person or persons from their lives right now – the collective tragedy is monumental, and whatever shared energies exist must surely be torn through at the moment……
for me it is not only the scope of what has happened that makes it difficult to comment, but more importantly (to me in the western world) is the hypocrisy of the western response in terms of aid offerred (compared to the amount of money spent on the iraq war every day), and in terms of collective grief and media representation (when compared to 9/11). in any case – the person who blogs at stupid, beautiful lies has penned an obituary to western sorrow that i think is worth a read.
Red Cedar 
