Licky Fingers Cake

Bought a Sticky Fingers cake for my dad, turned out to be a licky fingers cake ! finger-lickin good !

I just went on a trip up to OHIO/PA/WV to walk with John Francis, planetwalker. We walked twenty-one miles from Wheeling to the intersection of 40 and 800, where John Francis will pick up again next year, hopefully with our company.

This is David and his dad Ted, they were driving behind us (Jeremy, Jenn, John, and John). David and Ted had to drive their own car because their names don't start with a J.





John Francis and John Graham discuss the route, while the banjo rests. John Graham is a mad scientist, who planned our route, tracked John Francis with GPS, took water samples, and found a wonderful spot for us to eat our lunch in the trees. They both have a stunning sense of vast interconnectedness.

While we walked we saw some cats...


We ate bananas among other things.


Something happened to the back of this cement truck.

These mushrooms were at the end of our walk, the only mushrooms we saw the whole time. Jeremy climbed into the bushes on the side of the road to photograph them.



Our walk ended with a long bending down hill to a spot where the road was abandoned and flooded and John Graham waited there for us.
When we finished walking, I was tired and glad to take off my pack. Thats when I saw that Jeremy had collected quite a few of these strange dandelions, and put them in my pack; I was a walking flower vase.

This dog came to visit last week at the gallery, he was very big (great dane) and very sweet. He sat outside because he was too big to come in and too hot to stay in the car. I miss the great dane gang of Mt. Pleasant.

These are the mushrooms we found in the woods, on a foray with the mycological association of Washington, thanks for the expertise Mitch. YUM !

bicycles

Ice Kachang and GhostDog went for a ride in the rain last week, we met up with Jeremy's professor who took us on a garden tour of the mall, we ate java green while he was lecturing and took pictures of ducks.

This is probably the most beautiful duck I have ever seen.