the sap rises and the angels sigh

fireworks on the fourth

evening colors fading into night

stormy weather

a reminder that sometimes the sun doesn't come out until the last possible moment...and that in the end, sometimes it's better that way

ice and snow, whites and greys

what do you see in the clouds? because i see a chicken head

white on white

the best thing is just to sit and watch

deep greens and blues

pizza four ways @ look both ways

the best place in the world

Last week three friends, all fellow returned Peace Corps volunteers, came up to windy, beautiful Blowing Rock, braving frozen water pipes, broken furnaces, and quite a bit of my cooking. The best thing on the menu: pizza four ways. Each one of us designed a pizza – the idea being that at the end of the night we’d have a competition (competition being one of the themes of the weekend…) – but at the end of the night, they were all so good that it was sort of a draw.

It actually brought to mind an alternate definition of competition my friend Becca wrote about in a recent blog post: true competition lies not in winning at another’s expense, but in “striving together” for the benefit of all: “if people run together, everyone runs faster.”

I know what you’re thinking: Becca is talking about social justice and youth music education, and I’m talking about baking pizzas, but you know, maybe that’s just because you haven’t tried these pizzas.