Uncle Steve’s Homemade Pizza

When visiting my Aunt Ellen and Uncle Steve, the one thing you can depend on is good food. Whether it is a huge Brisket meal or homemade pizza. Today we chose homemade pizza baked by Uncle Steve.

Fresh ingredients from the market today.

And the process begins.

Now comes the kneading of the dough. So glad I was watching.

Now for a little surprise.

Did you catch that…….its the surprise. Pepperoni and fresh mozzarella cheese wrapped inside the crust…….Oh I can’t wait until its done.

Add the shredded mozzarella and the pepperoni.

(said with an italian accent)

Ready for the oven on 475 degrees. My mouth is salivating. A few minutes later, DONE.

Can you see the surprise….its there in the crust. Let me tell you, it was scrumptious.

Lets not forget the delicious salad my Aunt Ellen made….tasty orange flavored virgin oil and lemon vinegar with baked beets too. Very different and very tasty.

Traveling across the country to visit family is awesome, and the food that comes with this visit is even better. Thanks Auntie Ellen and Uncle Steve for making me feel at home and for feeding me all these wonderful foods. I’ll be back in a hurry.

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I'm speechless

Still Celebrating 3rd Prize

The Art show was this weekend and there was my photo with the third place ribbon.

When I photograph and someone compliments my work I sort of brush it off.......not actually believing it.  I'm sure all artists are like this....this gives me some nice recognition and a quick thought that maybe some people do like my work.

Yellows my favorite color this month.

This was posted along with my photograph.  All the artwork that was in this show was beautiful.  I was so happy to have one hanging amongst the others. 

3rd Place

Sometimes 3rd place is awesome. 

I usually like to blog about others but today its all about me.  I just received a phone call letting me know that I won 3rd prize in a local Artsfest.  I was shocked and elated at the same time.  I've entered my work for the last two years just hoping to sell some pieces but never won anything.  Now my photograph will be hanging at the Art Show with a big fat ribbon on it.

Here's the photograph.

This was taken on the Jetty on Martha's Vineyard.  The little boy is my nephew who happened to be doing a little jig on the rocks.  I didn't notice the sailboat in the background until I looked at the photo on the computer.

Of course my parents thought it should have been first place, but 3rd place is fine with me.

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Romancing of Lighthouses

In my continuation of writing about lighthouses my next installment is one that I love. When I lived on Cape Cod back in the early 1980’s I would see this lighthouse daily and when I went out boating would pass it on our trips.

Channel Point Lighthouse is a Faux Light, a replica of Brant Point Light.
Apparently, a local resident decided a Lighthouse was needed to mark Channel Point near the edge of the shipping channel entering the Inner Harbor of Hyannis. According to a Hyannis Tourist Information Guide, the Lighthouse was established as a private aid to navigation and is not a official Light recognized by the United States Coast Guard.
Since the Lighthouse is not a official navigational aid, the “Bug” Light has also been called the Lewis Bay Lighthouse and the Hyannis Inner Harbor Light. Lighthouses were named for the geographic location they marked as a general rule. Therefore, Channel Point Lighthouse best describes the location to warn mariners away from.
Unfortunately, there is no information to whether Channel Point Light is actually used by navigation entering the inner harbor, yet when we visited the harbor, the Light was Flashing Green to mark the point after sunset which supports the Hyannis Tourist Information Guide assertions. Regardless of whether mariners are guided by Lighthouse or not, the Inner Harbor is a crowded harbor of refuge with Ferries, commercial fishing vessels, and 180-plus pleasure crafts moored at the Hyannis Marina.

When I was photographing this lighthouse from all angles I realized how different it looked. Tell me what you think.

From these angles it looks congested with city life.

The angles below are my favorite. More solitude.

For me each photograph takes on its own story and they look like different lighthouses. So depending on where I was standing, this lighthouse had many lives.