my little patch of paradise

[iridium]

you know what's pretty damn cool?
going on a walk around the neighborhood with a friend from far away and finding a big patch of sunwarm ripe blackberries and picking a whole quart of them. and then coming home and eating a handful, saving out a handful for tomorrow's breakfast, and cooking the rest down into syrup. even better is adding a few strawberries frozen in the middle of strawberry-season, and a bit of juice from a meyer lemon off the tree in my garden.
right now my kitchen smells of rich warm blackberry juice, and lemon and honey. and i have fresh-made sweet tea with a little of the juice added in, and a good book to settle down with while the juice cooks down to syrup.
and chocolate.
i also have good chocolate.

that's pretty damn cool.

Comments

[thomb.livejournal.com]

Yum. That sounds pretty damn cool.

[iridium.livejournal.com]

mmmmmm...and now i have two little jars of the stuff. i'm gonna have to go back there some other afternoon and pick more.

[violin.livejournal.com]

That is cool.

Know what else is cool? I had thought that WaHo#1 was gone. I was just told by a WaHo employee that the original building was torn down (sad), but there is still a WaHo there today.

[iridium.livejournal.com]

hee! nice. where is it?

[maxsalamander.livejournal.com]

That sounds beautiful.
Thank you for that image!

[iridium.livejournal.com]

you're welcome!
also - are you going out to burningman this year?

[maxsalamander.livejournal.com]

Yes! I am~
Are you? And where are you camping?

[iridium.livejournal.com]

i am. not entirely sure yet where i'm camping. my default is to stay with the Irrational Geographic Society/Kamp Krotus group, but...eh. there are people there who i'd prefer to not have anywhere near me. (also people i enjoy hanging out with, and a decent camping infrastructure, and Foodlab and all, otherwise i wouldn't be considering it.)
where will you be? and... do you know of somewhere that might have good space for me?

[maxsalamander.livejournal.com]

You should camp with us. :)
Pepper will be there, too!
(with Camp Jonestown)
And we will have a dome. . . .

[(Anonymous)]

ooh!! excitement and wonder!
is there any space in the dome for me? i'd be all psyched to help out with projects and costumery and all...

[iridium.livejournal.com]

oops. that last one was me, perhaps obviously.
at the very least, i'm all psyched to come hang out with y'all a bunch.

[maxsalamander.livejournal.com]

:) Yes there is room for you~
The dome is our common area; we'll
set up a community kitchen too.

Yay, it would be good to have you with us!
Give Pepper a ring for details.

[iridium.livejournal.com]

do you camp in tents, or what? i was thinking about maybe building a smallish PVC dome to sleep in, or seeing how much tents cost.

:) i just sent Pepper mail, and i'll try to give a call sometime this week.

(also: yay!! i'm glad you'll be there.)