coffee

blogs. pretty much the best combination ever. here's a couple of links that will tell you everything you need to know about the changes that are occurring in the coffee industry.

dear coffee, i love you

{they have even more links on their site}

i love coffee

and incredibly enough at the last TED conference there was a coffee common. A grouping of the best baristas around the world brewing the best and most interesting coffees and brainstorming how to make the coffee industry better and improve what they do in their shops. i can't wait to see how it develops. TED only gets better and better. you should check it out if you do nothing else.

adventures in normalacy

i wanted to share these photos from our week here in the city by the bay. we hit up the farmer's market, hence my obsession with spring recipes, hung out on haight street and picked up some amazing records as well as puerto rican food, and enjoyed a delicious homemade (jacob made) brunch. i love enjoying where we are and spontaneous adventure.

notes

i love this piano photo. my grandfather tunes pianos and i attempted to play them growing up. seeing the inside revealed a new and beautiful facet of its mystery.

asparagus

via today's letters

i love this blog. her way of expressing love in her marriage and out is wonderful and realistic and funny. as if this wasn't enough it provided me with this amazing recipe for asparagus. browned butter and balsamic vinegar, how could i go wrong. i also used less asparagus and put it on top of rice with a fried egg and the sauce reacted really well with the other items and was so flavorful but not over powering of the vegetable itself. i've been a bit disappointed with spring's offerings so far but now have renewed hope in trying to eat seasonally.

fog

while this is not what san francisco looks like right now (the sun is having its hey day) , i wanted to share the beauty of this city in the fog. nothing new but i can't get enough. i love the lights and the reflections as we come over the bay bridge.

the elegance of the hedgehog

*

this book thrilled my heart. its set in a wealthy neighborhood in paris, and addresses social class, facades, poverty and the power of community. the story and characters are beautiful, redemptive, sweet, sarcastic, sad, intelligent and they all came together to form an engaging story that has made me think, alot. about life and art and why i live and how.

*this is the french cover which i've chosen because i was telling jacob that i didn't like the engligh cover and that i thought it should be a painting of a camellia (read the book to find out why) and when i googled the book this edition came up. maybe my calling is actually book art. hmmm.....

happy weekend!

the sky is blue, the weather is warm and it feels like summer. i could not be happier. we might check out off the grid at fort mason tonight or pluto's on chestnut, but whatever we do its going to involve a bike ride.