The weather has been clear and beautiful all week. It’s days like this that Mount Rainier comes out to play.
Crabby patties.
Francine brought over a humongous bowl of dungeness crabmeat from their haul over the weekend – ginormous hunks of claw meat already cleaned and ready to eat. So, I made crab cakes tonight for the first time, and I think they turned out excellent.
Spongebob would be proud. 🙂
Here is the recipe I used:
– 2 cups dungeness crabmeat, flaked
– 1/3 c crushed cracker crumbs
– 2 Tblspoons mayo
– 1 egg
– 1 tsp mustard powder
– 1 tsp Worcestershire sauce
– 1/4 tsp garlic powder
– 1/2 tsp kosher salt
– Juice of 1/2 lemon
– 2 green onions sliced and diced thinly
– 1/2 green pepper diced finely
– Black pepper to taste
1) Mix all of the above together well in a bowl.
2) Form into cakes (6 or so) and dust each with:
-Flour
3) Heat in large skillet on med high:
– 1/4 c olive oil
4) add crab cakes to pan and cook 4-5 mins, then flip and cook another 3-4 mins.
5) remove and place on paper towel.
Plate with lemon and Dijon mustard remoulade.
Lovely blooms.
I happened across a rose garden today. I just had to stop and smell a few.
Home grown.
Apples on the tree in my mom’s front yard.
Almost.
I met Fran and Art and kids this morning at a boat ramp to do some crabbing in the Sound. We meant to beat the low tide.
But. Didn’t. Quite. Make it.
🙂
Sometimes you get the crab. Sometimes the crab gets you.
And….again!
Oh so pretty. I didn’t have a window seat today. It’s just as well, though, because I would have been hogging/blocking the view the whole time. 🙂
So I asked my seat-neighbor to snap one for me, instead.
O-K
-L-A-H-O-M-A!
We couldn’t miss this year’s Zilker Hillside Theater summer production. Monte played the lead in this show back in the day. Show tunes are still ringing in my head. 🙂
Another Arky sunset.
I never tire of the sunsets in this cove on Lake Travis.
Foot of the mast.
Tonight’s vantage point:
Pink sunset glow.
I caught this shot of the setting sun last night from one of my favorite vantage points.
Simply the best.
Monte and I have just returned from Panama City Beach – a week-long celebration of Gene & Jo’s 50th wedding anniversary with their entire family. I am grateful to have been included in the celebration. It was simply awesome. The location. The beach. The silliness. The catching up. The family. The celebrating. Thank you Gene & Jo!
I’ll share just a few pictures of the beautiful setting:
We arrived in Panama City Beach at sunset last Saturday, after an extra long drive, due to I-10 shutdowns.
One morning we were treated to a view from our back deck of an amazing double rainbow.
The sea was different every day. This was from one morning after overnight rainshowers.
A week of amazing sunsets.
Surf-side fireworks one night.
One of the few pelican shots I captured.
From a distance.
Julie flew home Wednesday to join her dad and brothers on a long-planned climb to the top of the 14K+ foot peak that is Mount Rainier. I can only aspire to do something like this one day. For now, I am watching their ascent via satellite-based location technology. Amazing.
Points 1 – 4 on the map are the last 4 pings they’ve sent on their way up. I will watch all night and all day tomorrow. Can’t wait to see the pics!
Three day weekend!
We celebrated the long 4th of July weekend on the lake. On Friday, Julie joined us for the day for a sail and a float in Arky South. Kalliopi tied up to us for the afternoon. And we whipped up an All-American grill-ful of burgers and dogs for dinner.
We took Julie back to the marina at sunset.
We had a nice view of a nearby fireworks show from the bow.
Saturday morning we took care of some chores on the boat before setting off for a long sail, ending up with anchoring off Starne’s Island to watch the Volente (day-after) 4th of July fireworks show. Voodoo, Sapphire, Dancer and Karma also showed up and we anchored nearby eachother.
The lights in this shot show the great many boats that turned out for the show. And the dark hump in the middle of the shot is Starne’s Island, from where the fireworks would be shot off.
We had a great spot!
After the show, nearly all the other boats left, and the water calmed down enough to stay overnight. Sunday morning, before we left, I kayaked from the boat to Starne’s Island to hunt for a lone geocache hidden there.
This tree on the island is home to 4 giant blue heron nests. None of them were home during my visit.
We made it back to the slip Sunday afternoon and wrapped things up.
Another great 3 day weekend spent on the lake!
Now, that’s weird.
A week or so ago I was driving through a parking lot at a nearby store and saw this:
I couldn’t help but wonder where the person that needed the walker went … without the walker. Ok, so i just chalked that up to a chance encounter with an abandoned walking aid. But then about a week later, I was in a different parking lot, and saw this:
Now I think someone is trying to tell me something. I just don’t know what it is.
🙂
Sheila365 