171. Life in Winter

Ducks near the Newton City Hall. Its refreshing to see animals in the winter.

170. Winter Dinner to Warm

Pea soup with whole grain toast and non-fat milk makes the perfect dinner to warm up on these cold New England winter nights.

169. New Year, New Hopefulness

168. Flowers at home

Flowers from Russo's to brighten my apartment.

Happy 2009, everyone. I hope you can find the beauty every day of the new year.

167. Chickadee

While I was waiting for a store to open this cute little chickadee landed on the car just in front of mine. He is just so plump and cute, it made me smile.

166. Preparedness.

This semester has been tough on me in regards to finding time to precook my meals. Today I had the day off, and ended my semester so I was able to prepare my meals for work. Its a nice feeling to have my meals ready to go, to make sure I am able to eat healthy meals. These lovely vegetables were bought from Russo's in Watertown, MA.




Two servings of soup (carrots, potato, turnip, onion in chicken broth), Two servings of carrots, broccoli and potato, one serving of purple potato and smushed sweet potato, two servings of spaghetti squash with sauted green peppers, crimini mushrooms, onions and eggplant.



Spaghetti squash with sauted green peppers, crimini mushrooms, onions and eggplant.

Carrots, broccoli and potato.

It is quite a blessing when my biggest concern is fitting things into the fridge.

165. Talking about it

This photos is from the Boston Globe via Reuters. Found here.

By no means am I thankful for AIDS/HIV. I am thankful that we can start these discussions, talk about prevention, support and treatment.

I am thankful that I can hope, someday, December 1st will only be the day Rosa Parks was arrested for not giving up her bus seat.

164. Bounty

Since moving from the South Shore to the Metro West I've been expanding my food shopping experiences. I accidentally happened upon Russo's about a month ago, and absolutely love it. They have the freshest produce, and let you buy what you need not the amount they want to sell you. Need four mushrooms? Buy four mushrooms. Need a small squash? Buy a small squash! Their variety is also impressive. I saw dragonfruit and lemongrass in its fruit/veg form for the first time in my life.

To top it all off, I got all of those nutritious vegetables for $9. (Four types of squash, two types of potatoes, two carrots, half a pound of shitaki mushrooms, a turnip, and a sweet potato)

163. A Bicycle Built for Two

I saw a bicycle built for two in Cambridge as I was headed to study. They looked like they were having so much fun! Unfortunately I couldn't snap a photo since I was driving. Instead, a photo

from a website.

162. Election day

Admittedly, I'm a political/news junkie. I read multiple news sources each day, and my radio is consistently tuned to the local NPR station. This is like my super bowl. Of course I have opinions, but the most exciting fact, regardless of who wins, is that so many people are involved.

I'm hoping for an accurate election as I sit and color in my map.

Happy election day, everyone!