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things that happen while your dough is rising
[Updated with text!] During a summer in high school when I taught swimming lessons at a day camp, I worked with a massive crew of counselors that for some reason, despite or maybe because they were fairly spoiled suburban high school students, fancied themselves hippies, going on incessantly about the transcendent experience that was the latest Phish or the pot brownies they’d baked the night before. One afternoon news spread like wildfire that Jerry Garcia had died, causing gobs of these teenagers to gather in the middle of the main field crying and consoling each other as if their worlds had come to an end or someone had stolen their Jeeps. [Isn’t it great that I’ve found an outlet for all my rage?] It began to lightly rain and as the sun crossed the droplets path, the full arc of a rainbow appeared across the field where they were huddled. It was immediately and unanimously deemed a sign, “an omen from Jerry,” one of them said. I rolled my eyes, irritated that the deadheads had stolen all the rainbows and went home.
Anyway, until we took a short walk Saturday evening, that had been the last rainbow I’d seen. I consider this an excellently-supplanted memory.
comments (6)
Stunning photos, Deb. Makes me wanna travel to NYC. If only I didn´t have to save all my money to decorate my newly-bought apartment.
Also worth noting are the brownie pics, oh my goud!!! (ala Janice from Friends). You have to send me the recipe, pleeeeease (url link to my email). I make a recipe with cocoa instead of melted chocolate, which turns out great and I can make it in 30 mins, but these ones look even better.
1 | Marce | May 21, 2006 10:25 AM
Outstanding!
Who woulda thunk you could find beauty in a graveyard?
2 | SantaDad | May 21, 2006 03:07 PM
Your photography is awesome! What kind of camera do you use?
3 | Lisa | May 21, 2006 05:17 PM
You can faintly see that it is a doubl-rainbow. I have found that most rainbows in NYC are double. That is because of the polution. The rainbow reflects on the polution particles in the sky. It also creates really great sunsets. I love NYC!!
4 | Christa | May 23, 2006 11:43 AM
I adore your blog! I come on here every day (you're saved to my favourites at work!) and am always happy to see a new post.
I told my husband that your blog is a feast for my eyes. Your descriptions and photos and your writing is so great! I read your entire archives in one day and they were a great read, but it's so nice to hear about someone who is totally in love and is happy day in and day out.
Congratulations to you! Keep doing what you're doing, judging from your comments there's a ton of us who love it!
5 | Mel | May 23, 2006 12:13 PM
Only one more month before I arrive in NYC with my fiance who has never seen the city, no less the country. Your pics are getting us more and more excited about coming on over (not that seeing my family isn't doing it too!). Thanks for sharing!
6 | ukyankee | May 24, 2006 03:07 AM