June 2009

June! June! What a wonderful month, the feeling in the air of thunderclouds and green! June is a month of bounty and growth.


Rhubarb




Rhubard Custard Kuchen!





Harvest



We expect a good crop of pineapple from the pineapple tree this year.






Labels



Really, the best part is that this is in a large hole, the crater of a building under construction.





Bard



This is my facebook husband, Joey. He sang songs as we weeded the garden. Everyone plays a part.





Pastoral Bliss



Sometimes things look perfect, or rather, contain the seeming perfection of old paintings.





Radishes



I planted these radishes on May 3rd, and picked them, and ate them a month later.






Brontosaurus



This is my second picture of a coffee-cup lid, but this one has a dinosaur on it, not a face. I was once told that I am brave in my imaginings.





Perspective



Before I started biking, I had never seen this (green)way before.





Streets 1 & 2








The street was closed one night, so we had a party. The streets belong to the people!





Vegetarians Beware




Huck realized that suddenly, bacon was lurking, ready to spring.





Watermelon 2




Another picture of watermelon, this one brighter and more summery. The month begins and ends with rich bounty.

May 2009

Seedlings




This month we planted the garden. Life begins.





Parade



Minneapolis holds an annual May Day parade. It is part labor-focused and part community-focused. This year the theme was government rot and waste giving way to new life. This giant spider seed was full of hope.






Cooperation



A students' co-op meeting/barbeque.






Watermelon



This contains the hint of the summer to come.





Campfire



An indoor, pretend fire at the Bedlam theater in Minneapolis. Mostly weirdos go there, and the particular brand of Minneapolis hipster/gutter-punks. They're somewhere in between those two, like people from the 1890s carrying Ipods. There is a faded look about them, like hipsters who have lived through winter.





Whiskey Well



At this point, whiskey really was walking on our brains. Later we fell asleep on the kitchen table.







Bridges/Mirrors



The very next day, very hung-over, we took a walk through the spring streets to the Guthrie theater. Which makes no sense even when not really hung-over.






Flags/Flowers



Luckily the world is gorgeous.






Big Sky Country




At the end of May we hit the road, taking 94 all the way out across Montana to Washington. 24 hour drive, anyone?







Chicory



Drinking coffee out-doors makes me think about the civil war, where soldiers used chicory root as a coffee substitute. According to the website I just looked at, the pros include the fact that it is naturally decaffeinated, and the cons include unpleasant taste. But "anything is better than going without!"





Ritzville, Washington



The west has the best abandoned buildings.






North Dakota



I guess I was wrong in thinking that North Dakota is flat and atrociously boring. Ok, I was wrong about the first part.






Red River



Why do people insist on living in flood-plains?





Minneapolis



There is little that makes me more fond of a place than overlooking it from a height. In this case, the wind blew across the sky and the city looked like a forested kingdom.