Laura J Mixon

@laurajmg

Six SF novels. Environmental engineer. Spousal unit. Genderqueer motherbeast. Hatch green, Chimayo red—NM nerd, born & bred. Severe MEcfs. Black Lives Matter, now and forever.

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Laura J Mixon@laurajmg· 25d

April Apricotary is happy to see you!

A face made of apricots with blueberry eyes, wearing a pleasant expression

Laura J Mixon@laurajmg· 27d

Skyler had to leave the dance party early. You’d think extra legs would make doing the moonwalk easier… *sigh*

Fruit art in a berry bowl. A nine-legged spider with the nose and nine legs made of tangerine slices. The eyes are raspberries with blueberries embedded in them. Two of its legs are raised, looking like it’s waving its arms.

Laura J Mixon@laurajmg· 28d

Laura J Mixon@laurajmg· 28d

Awww, such a wee Thing…

Fruit art. Tangerine slices with raisins for eyes, shaped to look like the Thing, a member of the Fantastic Four, from the comic book series. He’s holding a spoon with a blackberry in it like a weapon, and there’s a sign on the bowl’s edge with his battle motto, “It’s clobberin’ time.”

Laura J Mixon@laurajmg· 29d

Little Frieda REALLY loves blackberries…

Fruit face in berries. The face is childlike in its proportions. It has honeydew melon-ball eyes topped with blueberry-slice irises; raspberries for nose bridge, nostrils, and mouth; and three blackberries for hair. A spoon with another blackberry in it is perched on the bowl rim to the right, and she (I’ve decided she’s a she) is looking at it in wide-eyed surprise and excitement.

Laura J Mixon@laurajmg· Jul 13

The view out my window. ABQ, still love you.

Photo of a city neighborhood taken through a window frame, in early afternoon on a summer day, with trees and cacti in the foreground and a mountain cliff face in the background that is draped in folds of shadow and light, courtesy of a few wandering clouds.

Laura J Mixon@laurajmg· Jul 8

(OK, Sarek wouldn’t swear at you like that, but the face also reminded me of Humphrey Bogart in one of his gangster roles…)

Humphrey Bogart as Baby-Face Martin, in the 1937 film "Dead End."

Laura J Mixon@laurajmg· Jul 8

Live long and prosper, mutherfuckers.

Fruit art in a bowl of berries, a stern-looking face made of peach slices and blueberry bits, with upward-arched eyebrows, and a peach wedge between them that looks a bit like short Vulcan bangs.

A closeup of James Frain, as Spock’s father Sarek in Star Trek: Discovery.

Laura J Mixon@laurajmg· Jul 7

Smarter than the average Care Bear

Fruit face in berries that looks like a baby bear, made of sliced cherry pieces, blueberry irises, and an open raspberry mouth.

Laura J Mixon@laurajmg· Jul 6

Altairan Froot-Moop means no harm to your planet.

Alien fruit face in berries, made of raspberry eyes with blueberry pupils, a blackberry crest, and a mandarin-orange face. The orange is split open in a bloom and has a raspberry in the center, making the creature rather terrifying—like its face is made of teeth. Brrrr! (But I’m sure its intentions are good…)

Laura J Mixon@laurajmg· Jul 5

BTS: Been eating blueberries for decades but before Stevie started doing fruit art, I hadn’t known they had green pulp and seeds in their center. PS: See the food-art safety tip in the alt-text of this photo.

A closeup of the divoted blueberry eye, with a toothpick tip poking out from the mandarin ear above it.

Safety tip: if you use toothpicks for fruit art, do NOT use small toothpick pieces. Steve and I learned the hard way once, when I got a piece lodged at the back of my palate that I came dangerously close to swallowing. Bigger pieces only, and be sure you tell your diners that you’ve used them. It’s not always obvious. ❤️

Laura J Mixon@laurajmg· Jul 4

Herkimer got up on the wrong side of the bowl this morning.

In a bowl of berries and cherries, a fruit face made of mandarin orange slices with blueberry pupils. The spoon is cradling its chin.

Laura J Mixon@laurajmg· Jul 3

(And a still version for the coffee book 🤭)

Still photo of the Sarlacc Pit fruit bowl described in the post above.

Laura J Mixon@laurajmg· Jul 3

Bouncy Fun House! Perfectly safe! Jump right in!

Laura J Mixon@laurajmg· Jul 1

I loved this little fish so much I had to post a different angle. Here’s Carey the Carp, in profile.

Laura J Mixon@laurajmg· Jul 1

Give it up for Carey and the Carp Sisters! 🎤🎶 “So long, and thanks for all the fish…”

Fruit art in a berry bowl, a fish whose head is a mandarin orange with a wide open mouth and a raspberry tongue, raspberry eyes inset with blueberry irises, and fins and tail made of mandarin slices. One fin is holding onto a spoon. The fish looks a bit like it’s dancing and singing.

Laura J Mixon@laurajmg· Jun 30

*flap-flap-flap* Mama! Mama! Help! Massive mammals are staring at me! *squawk*

Baby fruit-bird in a bowl of berries. They have pitted cherry halves for beak and eyes, and tangerine slices for wings and legs. Poor little bean is flapping their wings and staring at you in mingled surprise and alarm.

Laura J Mixon@laurajmg· Jun 29

Care for a tango, my little cherry bomb?

Tangerine fruit face with blueberry eyes, holding a spoon with a raspberry in its mouth.

Laura J Mixon@laurajmg· Jun 29

The view out my window. The mountaintop is decked out tonight in hues of orange and rose, beneath clouds that paint the sky in soft greys and golds. Nearer by, the neighborhood trees are waving their greenery in the breeze, bidding the sun safe travels through the night.

Laura J Mixon@laurajmg· Jun 28

Gregory Goatheadery blows you a kiss. MWAH!

Tangerine face in a bowl of berries, puckering up for a kiss, with goat-like horns jutting up from its forehead, blueberry eyes in its tangerine eye sockets, and a raspberry visible inside its puckered, tangerine-slice mouth.

Laura J Mixon@laurajmg· Jun 27

Say hello to the Pac Ma’am.

Fruit art. A peeled-tangerine version of Ms. Pac-Man in a bowl of berries, with a polka-dot blue and white bow (a repurposed cake decoration) on her head, eating a raspberry.

Laura J Mixon@laurajmg· Jun 25

Chibi Ackbar has rallied the neighborhood kids. It’s the last star battle against the empire. “Take evasive action!” he shouts. “It’s a trap!”

An amphibious fruit creature straight out of Star Wars in a bed of berries. Its face is two melon-balls topped with topped with blueberry halves as eyes, perched on either side of a whole, peeled tangerine, whose lower third section is slightly separated from the upper Two-thirds, making the mouth. Two more melon balls are placed off to the sides, where hands would be, and another two are below, for feet. With its eyes open wide and its mouth agape, the creature has a rather alarmed expression, reminiscent of Admiral Ackbar’s face from Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, as the rebel fleet is about to attack the second Death Star and he realizes they have been tricked. Only it’s a chibi version of him, who is absolutely adorable.

Laura J Mixon@laurajmg· Jun 21

Pies Steve made for an Aikido buddy and his family, a gesture of love.

Twin peach pies in peach fruit boxes on a stovetop, side by side.

The same pies in their boxes on a stovetop, stacked one on top of the other.

Laura J Mixon@laurajmg· Jun 20

Crustiboy Fruitastic is happy to see you!

Fruit art: a frisky crustaceaous-cum-insectoid entity in a bowl of berries. Its eight limbs are tangerine slices, with two raised above its head, the latter of which is an inverted, triangular nectarine wedge with its skin side up. Two eyes and a smiling mouth are carved into the wedge, and the morning light can be seen glowing through them, akin to a Halloween pumpkin’s. Very cheerful critter!

Laura J Mixon@laurajmg· Jun 19

Skeptical, much? Steve has a great poker face, but I sometimes wonder if his fruit art is telling me something…

Tangerine fruit face in a bowl of berries, with a raspberry nose and blueberry eyes. It appears to be squinting, and has one tangerine-slice eyebrow elevated, Spock-like.

Laura J Mixon@laurajmg· Jun 18

🎼🎤 Who are you? 🎸 🎵 I really wanna know! 🎶🥁

A fruit face that looks vaguely like an owl, with a raspberry for an open mouth that looks like it’s saying “whooo??”

Laura J Mixon@laurajmg· Jun 17

Looks like Frootimon woke up on the wrong side of the bowl. What do you think? I’m feeling like they need a hug or something.

Fruit art. A monster face in a bed of pitted cherries and berries. It’s shaped with tangerine slices for eye sockets, nose, and jagged teeth, and cherry slices for the eyes. Its expression seems a bit melancholy.

Laura J Mixon@laurajmg· Jun 16

Fruitface Hellboy showed up this morning. “I’m here ta rescue you. Got a problem wit’ dat?”

Fruit art. A friendly devil face, made of tangerine slices with blueberry eyes in a bed of berries. He looks a bit like Hellboy.

Laura J Mixon@laurajmg· Jun 15

All right kids! Put away your cell phones. Time for dinner at the grandparents’. Pot roast, potatoes, and pie… and =cultural conversation=.

Fruit art, two faces looking at each other across a bed of berries. On the left is Elmo Grampa, with eye sockets and mouth made of raspberries, a tangerine slice for a nose, and blueberries embedded in the eye sockets. On the right is Angry-Bird Gramma in all her finery, with a head and beak made of tangerine, a blackberry for her crest, and raisins for eyes.

Laura J Mixon@laurajmg· Jun 14

Today is turning out to be a photo-share bonanza-rama. My sister brought my mom by for quick hugs and I got caught in the act. 95 yo! I’m very fortunate to have her in my life.