Elegant Newt

Happy solstice everybody 🌎☀️

Happy Dub-Dub to those who celebrate.

Hot Italian sausage, onions, and spinach 🍕

Small pizza on a cooling rack, sitting on a table with an illustrated white tablecloth.

Hot Italian sausage, sautéed onions, and green olives 🍕

Two small pizzas sitting on wire cooling racks on top of a black glass stove top.

Close up of pinkish yellow roses on a background of bright green leaves.

Mixed olives and sweet Italian sausage 🍕

Small pizza sitting on a silver peel, which is sitting on a wire cooling rack, which is sitting on a black glass stove top.

A stone sculpture in the left foreground of a beaded man, with a large metal sculpture in the right background sitting on a lawn, with trees and white clouds against a blue sky behind.

Another small step in the right direction: Virginia joins a national effort to ensure only popular vote winners become president

Taxes filed, with plenty of time to spare.

I guess it really is TACO Tuesday.

View of the 200 Clarendon St office tower in Boston from below on a foggy day, with the top of the windowed skyscraper vanishing into the haze above.

No Kings

Spring in New England

Close up view of small purple crocuses poking up through brown leaf litter with a light cover of snow on the leaves.

Mushrooms and onions 🍕

Small pizza on a blue plate, sitting on a wooden cutting board, seen from above.

Equinox at last, perhaps we will get Spring some time soon?

Beware the Ides of March to all who usurp the powers of government against the will of the people.

Happy π Day to those who like pie 🥧

I went to the Apple Store and took a look at the new products. I did not buy anything! The Neo’s screen looked too dim for my taste and the mechanical touchpad, although nice, seemed just a bit clicky after years of using haptic feedback versions.

Kale, sautéed onions, mushrooms, and ground beef 🍕Blizzard of ‘26 Edition

A small pizza on a cooling rack, sitting on top of a black induction stove top.

Happy Friday the 13th to those who celebrate.

Melting the sugar cone

Flames rising from a metal bowl with a sugar cone on a wire rack on top, a hand holding a ladle on the right pouring liquid on the cone, a dark window in the background reflecting a small electric candle.

Wassail ready to serve

Blue flames on the surface of a metal bowl of punch, lines of punch glasses on either side, a dark window in the background reflecting a small electric candle.

Pan roasted potato and fresh arugula 🍕

Close up view of a small pizza covered in arugula sitting on a pale blue plate set on a light brown tablecloth.

Sweet Italian sausage, spinach, and onion 🍕

A small pizza on a light blue plate on a brown paisley tablecloth, next to a wooden salad bowl, a bottle of wine, and knife and fork.

Ground beef, roasted bell peppers and onions 🍕