JulieLeung.com: a life told in tidepools

My Mother’s Day indulgences included oatmeal scones with loganberry jam. The scones are a new recipe I created, using soy butter instead of butter, and adding wheat germ and rice bran for extra nutrition to the oatmeal and flour. I found the Swedish loganberry jam on a shelf at T&C and brought it home as […]

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Capra hircus is proud to announce and distribute the debut album of the local improvisational, progressive, slightly a capella band Triach Trio & Ivan Sly. Don’t click this link unless you like addictive ditties describing expensive bakery goods. This mp3 plays less than 4 minutes but will last much longer in your mind. I played […]

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inspired by this picture of Adrian’s I saw this moment and took out my camera while on my one hour date with Ted Saturday afternoon. What to do while your children are at a birthday party in Poulsbo? Grab an almond moo at a creative coffee house, sit on the sofa together and talk about […]

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From amba’s post listing goodies she discovered on a logophile’s paradise the Phrontistery , I learned ombrophilous, defined as tolerant of large amounts of rainfall. While amba says this word describes those of us who live in Seattle, I beg to disagree. Maybe it was the move to California that spoiled me. I grew up […]

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an Abigail tulip, that is. I didn’t know about Abigail tulips until we saw them at the store last fall. Now we need to find Michaela and Elisabeth ones so each of the girls can grow her eponymous plant.

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