This little birdie...

...tweets out soy sauce!

Alessi Lily Bird Soy Sauce Container by Stefano Giovannoni.

This looks like a frickin' awesome book!

Judging by its cover.

The other windowsill

I found this mug (a gift for Greg) in a "free" box:







Awesome.

Remember those herb seeds I found a while ago? I am trying to grow them. Nothing is happening:



And I picked up this piece of marble with metal fittings on a beach in Quebec:



It was some kind of switch, I think.

I like.

Christmas cactus

Smuggled into Brooklyn from Canada (I wrapped it in like five feet of toilet paper):



































Nice, right? A gift from Greg's brother Jim and his husband, Trevor.

I was going to crop this picture but then I decided I liked how you can just see the spines of the other cactus sticking into the image on the right.

Last night...

...I finished my new iPod holder.



Yay for Patons Canadiana knitting worsted!



UPDATE: I think I lost this! Sad. But now I get to make a new one!

Morning friend

Gimme.

Morning flowers in the kitchen are nice too.

Who is this...

...behind Greg's hair, on the left?



He is shaking hands with the owner of Olympia Restaurant on Denman Street in Vancouver. FAMOUS!

Victoria coffee shops

We were going to go here...



...but then we thought, what the hell—let's enjoy ourselves!

So we went down the street to this place:



'Twas very pleasurable.



(That stuff in the middle is phytoplankton, to cure our colds.)

Mexican squirrels

Our friend Claudine recently returned from Mexico with these pictures of the squirrels of that land:





Curious!

West coast squirrel

Greg and I came across this little guy at the Royal British Columbia Museum in Victoria. You can imagine how excited we were.



Between us we took like 75 pictures of it.

Enigma

Greg and I purchased this hand-embroidered tea towel at Value Village in Vancouver.



We do not understand it.

Saint Vincent de Paul

I found these placemats and napkins in his thrift shop in Vancouver:



Can anyone identify the double-P (or PD) logo?

We made it home!

The squirrel greeted us by eating a piece of bread on top of his nest:



Thanks buddy. We are glad to see you too.

Beach finds

Blue glass:



Sea dime:



Some nice stones, nicely arranged:



Piece of a super day-glo buoy:



Greg conquered this barrel:



It has barnacles and stuff on it!





Must have been in the sea for a while. I wonder what it contained. It's empty now.

Clear glass:



Driftwood for our wood collection:



An oyster shell!



Magnificent.

We got bumped from our flight back to New York

Cathay Pacific gave us a hotel room, food vouchers worth $230, and...






















It was pretty much worth it.

We fly home Saturday night.

We went to the beach!

The Pacific Ocean. It was AWESOME.



Me doing my thing (I was in heaven):



Glaciers did this:



Did woodpeckers make these holes I wonder?



Greggy says this is a sea otter pathway:



I wonder how this log got those cuts. Some logging thing?



Above the sea. A little grassy area...



...visited by rabbits!



Man, they got some big kelp!





And...we saw a seal! Ri-i-i-i-ght...THERE:

Huh.

I found a papier-maché bunny in the snow yesterday.

Thirty seconds after we arrived in Powell River...

...Greg's mom had this "snack" plate ready:



And they just kept a-coming.