I added a menu to the side bar that allows anyone to order photos from the blog through AdoramaPix, although there will be a delay between when the photos are posted on the blog and when they are available on AdoramaPix. I upload the images as large files to AdoramaPix so they can generally be printed as large as 20X30 inches, but it takes a long time to upload because they are huge files, and we have stone age speed DSL in Corrales.

After the wind blew all night, we ended up having a very nice day today. If the wind is going to blow, I prefer it blow at night, even though it woke me up several times during the night. We got some gardening done today, cleaned the house, and then I had to make an emergency run to the store to get a new wok to cook dinner in.

Tristan came out this afternoon and prepared Thai curry from our “Fine Cooking Magazine.” Our old wok was coated and the coating was wearing off. I intended to order a think cast iron wok to replace it, but never got around to it. So when it came time for Tristan to start cooking we had a wok crises, and the only option available was for me to speed out to the store to get one. I ended up with a carbon steel wok because  it was beyond Bed Bath and Beyond’s ability to stock thin cast iron woks. I’m not really going to complain. They had the carbon steel wok and it was half the price of a the thin cast iron woks I was looking at on-line.

The dish was fantastic and Laurie made a “Glorious Sponge Cake” from the 1950 “Betty Crocker’s Picture Cook Book.” The cake is light, spongy and very lemony, and wonderful with fresh whipped cream.

The lead photo is a profile of a house spider that’s been hanging out on the “cat magnet” fleece blankets we have on the couch. The fleece in macro makes it look like the the spider’s on a cloud. I also included a profile of America, and macro of another fruit fly. The fruit flies are so tiny I have a hard time getting the camera to focus on them. I tried manual focus, but that made it more difficult as my movements and the fly’s movements made it impossible to keep a focus. I finally changed my camera settings to only focus on the center point of the lens and that helped.

The profile of Rosencrantz shows off his Egyptian kitty look, and the last photo is another view of the black iris.