Hello all!

I have this bowl of quinces that are just starting to get really fragrant. In the past, I've always poached them in wine. Does anyone have other brilliant ideas for this once-yearly treat?

#baking #cooking #recipes #quince #food

Some folklore from my native Texas. I find this story particularly interesting because it's a local variant of an old tale and in the version told around the Rio Grande Valley, the devil has a hoof and a chicken foot (or two chicken feet).

"Though variations of the story change, it was discovered that, as the couple danced, the handsome stranger, assumed to be the devil, had one hoof and one chicken’s talon in place of feet."

#TexasFolklore #Folklore #UrbanLegends

https://www.utrgv.edu/newsroom/2019/10/31-the-devil-still-dances.htm

"It is no small thing to garden in this changing world....When politicians continue to fail us and big business laughs in the face of our futures, the act of stepping outside their nightmares and choosing to softly, carefully tend our gardens so that all the others, from the soil to songbirds, have space too. Well, that remains as radical as the day we first started to garden as humans."

~Alys Fowler

#SimpleLiving #RadicalChange #Gardening

I think this is a #JukeboxFridayNight #SongsThatWerentSingles, but I may be wrong?

Anyway please enjoy the lovely screaming of Karen O and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs with Art Star.

So fun.
#music

https://youtu.be/XmjUxVugaEw

Toot of self-celebration:

Yesterday the author copy of my first-ever published work arrived! My short story, “The Arrival,” is a gentle tale that centers a young girl on a frontier-like planet, waiting for the Librarian bring her new stories.

It is an absolutely beautiful anthology from Air and Nothingness Press - my favorite part is the library check-out card in the back, complete with call number and date stamps.

Feeling honored and happy - and hopeful that others will like the story!

#JukeboxFridayNight #songswithplacenames

Preston, Melbourne
https://youtu.be/1NVOawOXxSA