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what’re we thinking re: the mixed yarn texture here…not working, right?

but what do people actually DO with patches?

#haven’t tried embroidery in a while #freehand!#embroidery #fiber crafts

decided i was gonna try and make mugolio (an evergreen syrup most typically made using immature pine cones + sugar) using the edible cones most locally available to me—juniper! so i did a little light trespassing (it’s fine, lol. this is an unpurchased, undeveloped land parcel meant to maybe have a house built on it someday. today, it’s nothing to anybody)

yeah, juniper berries are weird cones!

my best ID attempts narrow these shrubs near me to be likely Juniperus virginiana (eastern redcedar) or Juniperus scopulorum (Rocky Mountain juniper), both of which are safe varieties.

supposedly, the few varieties that aren’t safe are quite bitter, so i tried a nibble of a mature “berry” as a second-tier check. it tasted mild—good enough for me. this is exactly the kind of wild, devil-may-care shit i’m really known for

maybe i’m a little late in the year (because there weren’t many green, totally-immature cones still around), but i think these pale blue ones should still be plenty young enough. unlike the few dark blue, mature berries i saw, they don’t release from the shrub very easily.

i only wanted about a pint’s worth, and there were so many cones on the plants that i didn’t even make a dent. so, even though i was picking for a long time to get as many as i wanted, there was no worry of over-harvesting

i have trouble wrapping my head around these berries being cones—even looking at this weird, stunted one here.

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got my pint!

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gave em a light rinse and decided that this was a good place to put the couple tablespoons of honey i had crystallize in my cupboard. the berries were still blue after the rinse, but mixing in the honey made the surface powder disappear

then, i layered the cones with sugar (usually, it’s brown sugar; i used white, too. i wanna kinda see what the color’s like!) in clean glass jars.

forgot to get pictures of that part. but they’re lightly sealed now, set on a windowsill—tomorrow, hopefully, the cones will have begun releasing moisture into the sugar around them

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decided i was gonna try and make mugolio (an evergreen syrup most typically made using immature pine cones + sugar) using the edible cones most locally available to me—juniper! so i did a little light trespassing (it’s fine, lol. this is an unpurchased, undeveloped land parcel meant to maybe have a house built on it someday. today, it’s nothing to anybody)

yeah, juniper berries are weird cones!

my best ID attempts narrow these shrubs near me to be likely Juniperus virginiana (eastern redcedar) or Juniperus scopulorum (Rocky Mountain juniper), both of which are safe varieties.

supposedly, the few varieties that aren’t safe are quite bitter, so i tried a nibble of a mature “berry” as a second-tier check. it tasted mild—good enough for me. this is exactly the kind of wild, devil-may-care shit i’m really known for

maybe i’m a little late in the year (because there weren’t many green, totally-immature cones still around), but i think these pale blue ones should still be plenty young enough. unlike the few dark blue, mature berries i saw, they don’t release from the shrub very easily.

i only wanted about a pint’s worth, and there were so many cones on the plants that i didn’t even make a dent. so, even though i was picking for a long time to get as many as i wanted, there was no worry of over-harvesting

i have trouble wrapping my head around these berries being cones—even looking at this weird, stunted one here.

dreadfularts

got my pint!

decided i was gonna try and make mugolio (an evergreen syrup most typically made using immature pine cones + sugar) using the edible cones most locally available to me—juniper! so i did a little light trespassing (it’s fine, lol. this is an unpurchased, undeveloped land parcel meant to maybe have a house built on it someday. today, it’s nothing to anybody)

yeah, juniper berries are weird cones!

my best ID attempts narrow these shrubs near me to be likely Juniperus virginiana (eastern redcedar) or Juniperus scopulorum (Rocky Mountain juniper), both of which are safe varieties.

supposedly, the few varieties that aren’t safe are quite bitter, so i tried a nibble of a mature “berry” as a second-tier check. it tasted mild—good enough for me. this is exactly the kind of wild, devil-may-care shit i’m really known for

maybe i’m a little late in the year (because there weren’t many green, totally-immature cones still around), but i think these pale blue ones should still be plenty young enough. unlike the few dark blue, mature berries i saw, they don’t release from the shrub very easily.

i only wanted about a pint’s worth, and there were so many cones on the plants that i didn’t even make a dent. so, even though i was picking for a long time to get as many as i wanted, there was no worry of over-harvesting

i have trouble wrapping my head around these berries being cones—even looking at this weird, stunted one here.

#foraging #wildcraft #outdoors #juniper #mugolio #kitchen project

never made croissants before—i feel like they came out pretty well!

chocolate vs. herb n veg

#baking

batch upload: recent spree feat. our call of cthulhu party (my own boy x2), since the campaign is fixin’ to start up again. they’re all gonna be fine

#drawing practice #my ocs #others ocs #call of cthulhu #ttrpg character #oc art #tbh heeding the urge more often to even Try and fuck w a drawings in this way is: good learning process. v fun

homunculus-argument

Reading a book about slavery in the middle-ages, and as the author sorts through different source materials from different eras, I am starting to understand why so many completely fantastical accounts of "faraway lands" went without as much as a shrug. The world is such a weird place that you can either refuse to believe any of it or just go "yeah that might as well happen" and carry on with your day.

There was this 10th century arab traveller who wrote into an account that the fine trade furs come from a land where the night only lasts one hour in the summer and the sun doesn't rise at all in the winter, people use dogs to travel, and where children have white hair. I don't think I'd believe something like that either if I didn't live here.

acatatoniccavalcade

Had a similar thought when I was up close to a lazy rhino the other day. Like, animals can be so bizarre looking that, honestly, those medieval monks did a pretty good job drawing exotic species based only on fourth hand descriptions.

nunuisancenewt

I understand where this justification comes from but like, they couldn’t even draw a turtle, a completely normal common European animal, I think we just have to accept medieval monks were bad artists actually

homunculus-argument

My theory is that the monks had never seen one because they'd never been outside. Like I know they did their own gardening and all but do we really know if they ever touched grass. Chronically in the manuscripts.

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