critical creatures

horse clam

I was trying to pay attention to the stuff I was learning, but I had to get a photo of this seagull trying for like an hour to swallow this sea star. I found two sea lemons today!

We call it "brain tumor salad". After I was misdiagnosed with a (almost certainly deadly) astrocytoma, if not glioma, my brother in law and a law school friend decided to take care of us, and one Ted Reinbold made us a salad of shaved fennel, lemon thyme, grapefruit and parsley. I was enjoying the effects of decadron at the time, so anything this refreshing seemed like a good way to deal with all the water retention. I thought Ted made this up, but I have seen it in magazines since. I think he also made some banh mi?

Let people enjoy things! I got into cooking as soon as I had access to my own kitchen, figuring that I have to eat several times a day, so I might as well enjoy it. Cooking at home usually works out in my favor as far as cost goes, so it stimulates my miser gland. If I, a person disabled by a lack of executive function, can get it together to spend days preparing a dish for myself, somebody actually in the profession can get fancy with their fruit snack that looks like a beetle.

Wasn’t quite able to capture how bright this was when I saw it.  I wanted to show off to my in-laws that I live someplace pretty this weekend.