moving day, um, months, many moving months

so, hello. this is the last post on this blog. you can find me here, soon. it's been six months on the road. total renewal. so much so that this blog has to go so that i can start over. i went from winter to spring to summer to winter to spring to winter to spring to spring to summer. seriously. can you guess any of the places i've been? they are basically in order. to put it mildly, i've been nearly everywhere. more places than i have photos of because life was often too immediate for photography. there were bats coming out from under bridges, kevas and pinion pine smoke, wildfires and moose, many feet of snow and deserts in spring, saguaros and redwoods, retreats and lots of campsites, there are now 20,000 new miles on my car and i'm pretty sure there was at least one close encounter of the third kind. mostly i was alone except when i was not, and i spent two months without my dogs, really really really alone. and i did remember what i'd forgotten. and now i've found a home, i just don't have a house yet. infinite gratitude to all those old and new friends who've conveniently left town just when i needed a new place to stay. and welcome to los angeles. 

  

keeping it weird

want face

good juice and hippies

enchanting

sort of surprised that i loved it here

awesome hotel in the mojave

so obvious

everyone says to bathe here and i can think of 10,000 reasons to

perfect

moonset at dawn

i could have moved in to the cave dwellings

my first tent

yes, i know what that one looks like

rainy easter sunday, deserted park, one of my favorite places 

'i hate this sweater'

ganesh temple

she was thisclose to me

just a little babe

well these are kind of obvious, aren't they?

this was the end of may

they had just crossed the highway

i had never been here and i wil go back

gorgeous, no fog day

my car is tiny but geez trees, you're huge

see me waving?

camping with my dogs means lots of adopted children

indians lived here

never get to the castle but always get to the elephant seals

wasp nest in taos

barefoot hiking in a valley near the valley

topanga, of course

tiny me hard at work, standing in a driveway

caught dozing, my new dress

maximum size difference

i call her baby driver

iPhone, on my way to where i am now

keep connecting

  

antonio roman-alcala's documentary 'in search of good food' is ready for screening, somewhere in the bay area most likely, sometime soon. i'd like to go.

repurpose.

 

 alienina

backyard brand

beautiful things made of other things.

gone rogue

last three photos courtesy of david lebovitz

first photo is mine, taken with my adorable new leica-lensed buddy, the lumix lx5

while i've been so busy with work and with travel planning, i've had time to get myself a valentine's day present. there's this guy who must be a genius (as in both nuts and indispensably wonderful), up in minneapolis making just three or four different bars. colin gasko at rogue chocolatier does it all from bean sourcing to bar making (this is a big deal), including his own letterpress labels, which are beeee-autiful. i have tried a LOT of chocolate and have been searching for a favorite dark for years, never finding what i was looking for. this is the jazz. complex and powerful with no chemical taste, no bitter finish, no whomp of caffeine (more like a body buzz of energy, forgive me for saying 'body buzz'). it's fine, sexy even, and frankly kind of spiritual (to those who know me, this'll make sense). i sent him a little note of thanks (who even does that?). i stopped short of offering to accompany him on his next trip to peru but the chocolate is that good. get your love some of this stuff and you will not emerge from your cocoa induced cocoon for days. get some!

amazing.

 courtesy of ...etc

i got some devastating news today about a dear friend and finding this on one of my favorite blogs made me remember the largeness of life. i'm too busy to post much and probably will be for a few more weeks. i somehow fell on an exciting new project that i will share in a bit. things should even keel themselves soon and i'll get back to futzing with my cute new camera and start plucking the fabulousness from the universe again to share with you.