When the sun shines as much as it has this week in Kansas City, I start longing for some good summer food. So I picked up these juicy cucumbers at the River Market, sliced them up, and threw together a tangy dressing to douse them in. Just a few simple ingredients did the trick: raw apple […]
If you read my last post, you will recognize this little girl in her cat dress. I am still dazed and amazed, but completely thrilled to say that one of my very favorite contemporary artists, Cecilia Murgel, has featured Zia in her latest sketchbook pages! Cecilia’s work, as I mentioned, is among my top favorites…there […]
The girl has a new dress. Complete with cat buttons, which she helped pick out at the fabric store. And of course, pockets- which have already held paper and pens, goat food, and apple money for the snack at the library. Created in the very best of ways: no patterns, no measurements, no markings. Just gather […]
The first strawberries. This was last week, since my posts have not been so timely. But the strawberries were definitely timely! Who doesn’t love a juicy, red strawberry? They make your mouth rejoice. And the radishes…crunchy and juicy, with a bit of a bite of their own. Happy, yet sad. A season, whether a season of time […]
As seems to be the case around here lately, this post comes to you fashionably late. Rewinding slightly, when we were in St. Louis, we were at a Whole Foods Market and I happened on a free drawing for a Mother’s Day Gift Basket. Well, I won. Since we were already back in KC when I […]
