haphazard musings and creations

here's how awesome i am at posting - some friends from ny visited over the 4th of july and we spent one afternoon at the boothbay botani...

4th of july was spent eating vietnamese food [with a friend's entire extended family] on a beach in the woods surrounding a lake.  tha...

the manhattan bridge.  connecting chinatown and vinegar hill.  aka dumbo.  which was explained to me as down-under-mahnattan-bridge-overpa...

sooo i have always claimed not to like lobster.  i had never *actually* tried it until the day after thanksgiving.  thats right.  black frid...

what i was very obtusely hinting at here , was a visit by my roommate and me to nervous nellie's jams and jellies !  i had been on a pre...

where can you find these things?

every year the town of oyster bay [specifically the village] throws a 2 day event appropriately named oyster fest .  here are the gritty det...

my two favorite pictures from what turned into more of a nature photoshoot than a healthy walk.  [click to enlarge]

these are all on the ubiquitous facebook.  along with a bunch of group pics, posed shots, and drunkards.  but thats par for a wine tour no? ...

  pic from chris marshall , edited by me saturday afternoon we took what we intended to be a brief trip to the kings park psychiatric...

the daffodils have bloomed finally! this is kind of an odd pic but i liked how the forsythia was just peeking over the fence i made a crap...

unless you watch a lot of SNL or are under the age of 30...that title will make absolutely no sense.  its ok.  but i was.  on a boat. pelic...

welp... they were pretty damn good .  flavorful perfectly textured cake, not overly sweet cloying frosting and unlike mine often, not too mu...

this is why you dont swim in the bay.  its nasty and full of algae and weeds.  plus its fucking cold. i have absolutely no idea where these...

 seen in thailand sushi and steakhouse in sarasota   ornate hand-carved fruit art is usually a good omen of excellent food.  also in the ...