[sarah sosiak]

The Future – 1 : LHC – 0

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The Sunset Tree

Friday night's sunset, from Strawberry Hill.

Remixed

Remix of the Creative Commons logo by Shepard Fairey. Get your tee by donating to CC's Fall Campaign.

Mmm...Q4 Food

Thanks to the bounty from a pumpkin picking up in Sonoma on Sunday, it's Squash Week at Casa Sosiak. For dinner tonight, I made this butternut squash with browned butter, and am about to start in on roasting my first pumpkin to make puree for pumpkin muffins.

Good Morning

Sunday morning with tea, a pecan bun from Arizmendi Bakery and the New Yorker.

Patio Lights | Norwood Club

From the archives. This photo's popped up on a few other blogs, so I suppose it's only proper that I post it on my own. The back patio of the Norwood Club in NYC.

Day at the beach

I found this photo -- from a beautiful evening at Crissy Field last spring -- on my phone the other day. Now that we're deep into San Francisco "summer" (read: cold and foggy with a side of wind), it's living on my desktop as a reminder of warmer times.

29 000km later…

Update: It was pointed out that my photosets didn't capture some of the highlights of the trip, so now...with more words. (And a map.)

June, from just east of the Baltic to the middle of the Pacific, in pictures.

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Helsinki (on Flickr)

Where I fell in love with delicious cardamom pastries, experienced 120 straight hours of daylight, climbed a church to get to the park on its roof, visited the gorgeous Kiasma Museum of Modern Art, wandered the Finnish Museum of National Photography, ate a lot of great tomato-cheese-lettuce-on-rye sandwiches, and explored Suomenlinna, the Swedish-then-Russian-then-Finnish sea fort off the coast of the city.

Tallinn (on Flickr)

Where I fell into conversation with a local, and spent the afternoon wandering the off-the-tourist-track bits of the Old Town talking about heavy metal and life in Estonia.

The UK (on Flickr)

Where I spent quality time with good friends, went geocaching in the woods and accidentally found a film set, took a quick trip to Oxford, saw a Body Worlds exhibit, visited the Cabinet War Rooms, spent an afternoon in my favourite building in London (St. Pancras Station) and discovered the genius in using butternut squash to make a veggie burger.

Hawaii (on Flickr)

Where I spent more quality time with more good friends, climbed the rim of a volcanic crater tuff cone, celebrated Pau Hana on Waikiki beach, went for a moonlit swim in the ocean, visited a Buddhist Temple, surfed, body boarded and ate a lot of fish.

Kiasma

The ramp at Steve Holl's Kiasma (the Finish Museum of Contemporary Art) in Helsinki. More on the building here.

More photos of the building and current installations on Flickr.

Retro Futurism

In the thousand year old Old Town of Tallinn, Estonia.*

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* Via Helsinki, via London. More photos to come.