I need to get into that business...

A year in the business from Ben Paull on Vimeo.

Les Vaches et les Mouches from Jazz and Fly Fishing´s Jazzcam on Vimeo.

Blazer

Trout, Bardu from Jazz and Fly Fishing´s Jazzcam on Vimeo.

This reminds me that I need to find a new blazer to wear while I am fishing...

Faceless?

There "out of our element" - Faceless - Fly Fishing - from faceless fly fishing on Vimeo.

Practice

He's getting the hang of it...

I wish I could do this every day

A few minutes on the home waters refresh like little else. Time has been short, and it has been too long since I have played with the local fish.

High Points

Continuing to eat my way through Alabama.

High Points Coffee and Used Books, in Ashland:





The food was modest, but very tasty.



And... the scene from outside:

Where is this kind of cinematography on WFN?

el agua de franco from sharptail media on Vimeo.

Trillium

I wandered into a cool patch of Trillium in the forrest the other day. At first, I thought it may be the endangered Trillium reliquum or "Confederate Trillium" but I have decided that it is probably the more common Trillium underwoodii. Still pretty cool, even thought I missed the blooms by a couple of days...

Avondale Brewing

Pretty stoked that another brewery is taking root in Birmingham...

Miracle Time

It's time! We're starting seeds tonight. Each time the seeds actually sprout, it feels like a tiny miracle. So many spiritual metaphors to gardening. I am dreaming of summer tomatoes already...

The Coupon Queen

My wife has become very good at the coupon game. So good, in fact, that she convinced Publix to pay us $0.05 to take this valencia rice off their hands:





To celebrate the windfall, we made Paella:

Topped off with some killer Andouille sausage from The Cajun Clever:

Not traditional, but very nice indeed...

Longing for Spring Already

I was just looking back at some of the springtime pictures of this year's garden. It makes me really love winter right now. Especially with a house full of sick kids...

Spirit Bears and Tar Sands

SPOIL Film Trailer from EP Films on Vimeo.

Rare

RARE from Joel Sartore on Vimeo.

Earth's biodiversity is vanishing at an alarming rate. This video from National Geographic photographer Joel Sartore shows what we stand to lose. More information is available in his forthcoming book, RARE: Portraits of America's Endangered Species.

Totally Shameless Promotion

In the name of getting free stuff...


But, in my defense, it is really good free stuff. Katie ("Sweet Tater") arranged for a give-away of a set of "unpaper towels." I have realized that we use a ridiculous amount of paper towels in our household when my wife made a special emergency trip to the store for a case of them the other day. Maybe a set of "unpaper towels" would help. Here's hoping I win...

Check out her blog and the giveaway here.

Fresh Prunes?

I'm still trying to figure out if this is worse than when they were marketing prunes as "dried plums" to avoid the prunes' stigma as a home remedy for constipation.

Anyhow, these were in the produce section of Costco, right down from the "fresh raisins."

OK, so according to the Wikipedia, there may be a distinction between certain fruits (specifically the freestone and clingstone varieties) where one is a "prune" and the other is a "plum." Thus, it is possible to have "fresh prunes." I am not buying it though. I suspect that Stellar Distributing merely changed the Wikipedia entry on prunes to suit their marketing goof...

Pond Cow

Tart

Closeup of a fruit tart I made the other day. The purpose was to use up a bunch of blueberries we had in the fridge, but my wife doesn't like blueberries, so I made her side with strawberry jam...



Oh yeah, and I used a new thing on the blueberries--roasted lemon peel. Idea courtesy of Chocolate and Zucchini.

Oprah

I realized in a conversation yesterday that I deeply distrust anything related to, or endorsed by Oprah. Is that wrong?