Rusty Ring

Today is День защитника Отечества (Defender of the Fatherland Day) in Russia. The date always leads me to a bit of a "on the one han...

(I've been making kvass [квас] more or less weekly for the past five months. This photo, from my first batch, is квас из черного хл...

This may be the most Zen thing I've ever seen in a Japanese garden. (And I've seen a lot; been fanboy of that Zen-soaked traditio...

(This little figure, which my mom brought home from one of her trips up the North Coast, had a place in her living room for forty year...

( Nereocystis sp. Great toasted as a salty crunchy snack, or broken into soups, sauces and the like as a vegetable.) Appearing a...

The most dangerous thing a sentient being can do is to act on pretext. "Since you did that, I can do this." That's ...

(According to information painted on its crossbar, this marker memorialises a young person. It's nailed high on a Douglas fir on t...