Missive


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Testing Week


She grabbed my phone, aimed it at the sky and said,
“It’s like the ending of the day, and it’s so bright, and all of the trees … it’s so beautiful.”

Good kids, man.


Nice Shot, Rose


Dusting off the grill for the first time this year. It’s on.


Day One


Just after I shot this, a guy approached me on the streetcorner to ask about the lens I was using. It’s a little clip-on thing I found online for around $30 that serves as both a wide-angle and macro adapter. I use it all the time, and I love it.

Linked below for the similarly interested.


Xenvo Wide-Angle and Macro Lens Kit

Progress


The Finished Product


Perler-Bead Pulumipus


Saturday Afternoon


It’s Van-Washing Day!


I know I keep taking pictures of flowers, but I can’t help it! It’s SPRING, people!


Tulips


This one deserves some explanation.

My son — well, all of my kids, but my son Sam in particular — is a huge fan of Nintendo’s [Zelda: Breath of the Wild](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_Zelda:\_Breath_of_the_Wild), a game in which, in addition to running around, exploring and beating up/robbing mischievous goblins, you obtain and occasionally cook food. Sometimes it’s just meats or vegetables that you toss over a flame, but you can also combine different foods to create surprising concoctions that can boost your health or give you momentary surges of power or, I don’t know,  magical invulnerability or whatever.

Every now and then, though, these combinations go wrong, and you end up creating something the game calls [*dubious food*](https://zelda.fandom.com/wiki/Dubious_Food) — a dish “too gross to even look at”, as it were.

So Rebecca decided to make Zelda for dinner: Sammy did the fish and mushroom skewers, threw some peppers into an iron skillet, and Mom made a giant batch of dubious food for dessert. It looks incredibly gross, indeed (so much that I had to push myself a little to take a bite) — but it was actually surprisingly sweet and delicious.
