The sun set on a wet city this evening. The steady rain and cool air made a turtleneck, space heater, and fuzzy slippers necessary all day. Fine with me. Sometimes perpetual sunshine induces schizophrenia and manic behavior. But a day like today…perfect for reading, cooking, arting, and watching a good movie like Babel. (by the way can someone please tell me what the note said that the deaf/mute girl gave the cop in the Tokyo highrise scene)
Early in the afternoon I tossed together this very simple and good chicken curry salad. Rotisserie chicken, red seedless grapes, celery, walnuts, plain yogurt, salt, pepper, and a palmful of curry powder. Chop, toss, stir in yogurt, done. Measuring unneccessary. What made it even better was eating if off of this wallpaper-patterned plate.
You may wonder if I’m in rural Kentucky or Los Angeles if you look east out my kitchen window, past the window boxes, to the little lane that snakes back behind my house. Some of my neighbors have extremely long, steep staircases to their front doors so they go down the lane to park in the back of their houses. I don’t guess Kentucky has dense stands of yucca or bamboo, does it?
Late in the damp afternoon I stepped outside my little cottage with the camera to gather more evidence of rain in late April. In a few weeks our rainy season will end and the wet days will be gone for the next 7 or 8 months. That’s a lot of SUN days in a row. I feel a mood disorder coming on. If everyone were to paint the door to their garages purple and mosaic a glittering pile of glass and tile around the frame we’d all be better equipped to deal with the dry spell that’s heading our way. There aren’t many problems that a nice thick rim of silver glitter can’t solve.
Finally, up at the top a couple more pages from my fall 2006 visual journal.
fantabulous journal and love the garden pics of course and the kitty is a sweetie!!!! and yum want some of that salad too!!!!!!! hugs Linda
am way behind on blog drooling here I see!! can’t keep up with you girl!!!
ohohoh, I just love kitty paws! I want to kiss them, but then I’d just go into a sneezing fit and no one wants that. Your recipe sounds yummy. I have a similar one, but I also add raisins and I use tarragon instead of curry. I serve it on a bed of field greens with just a drizzle of raspberry/walnut vinagrette—delish! I think I’ll have to try the curry next time. We’re looking at the same kind of one long hot sunny day that lasts from July through October. Ugh. Cold rainy days are my favorite, but I’m going to have to look up pictures of Seattle to see them this summer. At least it gets cool in the evening in CA, doesn’t it? Now that would be nice.
Yummy journal it is wonferful!!!!
Love your blog!
XO
Kristen
I keep meaning to tell you about those hand-knockers. They are known by some as a Hand of Fatima, named after the daughter of Muhammad, the Prophet — a charm found throughout North Afica and the Middle East. It’s a symbol commonly believed, like henna, to ward off the Evil Eye.
A few days after you showed your photo collection of them taken while you were in Mexico, I came across this bit of lore in a travel book about Morocco.
I want to kiss those kitty paws too. Maybe the cat posse could visit me….
Anne
Love your journal and your mosaic door surround is great, everyone should definitely have one.
Ro
I want to kiss the kitty paws!
*kiss, kiss*