Chrissy's Photo A Day

I painted trim around the window on the front of the studio, and around the garage this morning. We picked out a color to paint the doors a...

One of my favorite things about late August is eating figs right off the tree. Today I painted and weeded. Here is the back door trim t...

Potatoes and tomatoes. My sister wrote a song by that name once... These beauties are from the CSA. I love the um... pregnant female potato...

I worked all day in my stinking office. So ready to teach tomorrow- I live to teach. Dan and Aza finished painting the third side of the ...

Met with my grad student who figured out a motor mount with Legos. My office smells like skunk mold. The custodians sprayed it with a c...

Shuttle to Atlanta, flight to Lexington, home in bed with a migraine all afternoon. Eggs for dinner.

I spoke today in the atrium of this building to a group of new students, their families, and faculty. It was fun, and really well received...

Got a manicure and pedicure today. It smudged on the way to the car so I had to have it re- done. Hope this lasts awhile! Went to visit M...

You know you're home when there's a wedding cake on the kitchen table and it's no big deal. Love it!

Today I worked on a bit of a blurb for a grant, dealt with some issues regarding my trip to Auburn, picked up the CSA, dealt with a migrain...

This was the most fun I had all day. We had an all-day-long meeting (which was called a retreat) at Keeneland. OK, the bread pudding was a...

I woke up at 3:30am and ate a banana, a carrot, some avocado, and peanut butter. Fasting was not fun, juice and all. Anyway, this is a be...

Dan cut down a bunch of limbs today that were hanging over the front yard. Now the yard looks more opened up. I wish I had some colorful an...

The last lily of the season.

This is an almond and two halves of a peanut. These little buggers really caused a commotion! We were ready to purchase a new dishwasher b...

CSA day today! We got celery, chard, tomatoes, green and red and hot peppers, eggplant, a watermelon...

These are called Naked Ladies, or Naked Lilies because they pop up in the middle of nothing with no greenery. The greenery came up in t...

Penguin ice cube trays from England. They are no longer for sale except on eBay, where I bought 8 of them.

The dishwasher stopped working last week while Dan was gone. I thought I'd fixed it, but it broke again. Today Dan got to work trying t...

Squirt washed all day today and got the addition and the studio all scrubbed and ready to paint. He and I went at the tough patches with b...

Arum italicum seed pods. Some say it's a really invasive plant- native to England. It grows in some patches of my yard and I don't ...

Today I worked on syllabi for my classes and finished one. Big accomplishment! Squirt rented a power washer for the house but it didn...

Wheat Grass! We juiced about six inches of growth and it was delicious. Today it has nearly grown back... I had a migraine today and spent...

      Yesterday I ordered a juicer and it arrived today. This is for the Squirt, as he is determined to eat more fruits and vegetables th...

  August. I can't believe it's here and the summer is almost over. Today I worked on school stuff, but also crocheted and watched T...

  We need to paint the studio and the back of our house. Which color combination is best? I took a picture of the studio today (center phot...

  Dove at the bird bath. We went out to dinner tonight at Masala Indian Restaurant with friends- had a lovely dinner! Afterwards we watched...

  This is me. I caught a glance of my image in the mirror- no make up- hair just air dried- just me. This was me (click here) when I starte...

        I love picking up the crop from the CSA each Thursday. Today we got even MORE squash and zucchini and cucumbers and tomatoes. Az...

        So much has changed in the garden since I was gone. Naked lilies, Brown Eyed Susans, new hostas flowering, and new lilies.

Squirt cut his hair. A lot. He did this himself in Virginia. Hmmm....