Mental image [rowing]

There was a Tornado Watch yesterday due to Tropical Storm Isaias yesterday, but as best I can tell nothing at all ever materialized here, not even a decent thunderstorm.

Instead it stayed warm and humid all night, the kind of humidity where it feels like the water droplets in the air have water droplets on them.

Not the best for sleeping.

But I made myself get up anyway for rowing practice this morning.

As a result of the weather, the sky and the clouds and the sun did some amazing things above the water. As usual I did not bring a camera with me in WBY, so you just have to imagine it all: every shade of pink, blue, peach, orange, and yellow, with calm water and trees greening brightly along the shore. Even the skyscrapers in downtown Albany glittered like gold in the morning light. I wound up out ahead of the other singles, so it was mostly just me, the WBY, the river, and the sky.

There was one random tugboat headed downstream, up by the Menands Bridge, and a sailboat headed upstream, at the Train Bridge, with its mast still up. There have been work crews on the train bridge, and this morning they had the bridge rotated open for whatever it is they are trying to accomplish.

Here's a story about the history of our train bridge, here: http://alloveralbany.com/archive/2011/02/28/the-livingston-avenue-bridge

I managed to get in almost 14k. If I wasn't tired before, I am now.

I wound up making a short atmospheric film from two clips I recorded on Saturday, less than a minute long. I now know that I don't like iMovie, so I may just go back to using the spammy video editing software I installed on the work machine.

Watch on YouTube

Life under a freeway. Sound on for this one.

Back to work.

Foods [food]

One of the best things about the days in the Farmer House with the Other R was that she knows all sorts of great songs. She would regularly sing Homegrown Tomatoes basically every time she went to make cheesy toast with tomatoes, and so now I think of the song every time I eat tomatoes from the garden.

Anyway, here's what I picked yesterday (in the colander, the ones in the bowl were from earlier):



*Almost* enough basil for a batch of pesto, except I'm temporarily out of olive oil.

Also, these are the Black Prince tomatoes I've been wanting to grow. We tried growing them at the El Cerrito house, and they grew all right, but as sytharin predicted they were not as delicious as they can be because the East Bay doesn't get quite warm enough. We've certainly had warm enough weather out here, though. A plus, will grow again.

I also got more peaches and blueberries from the grocery co-op yesterday, so it was time for a peach-blueberry cobbler.



Dinner was ratatouille with pasta, then cobbler for dessert.

Yum.