Lori/Ella Drake 🖋️📖
@laphilbin
Science Fiction Romance author. Also, a technical writer extraordinaire writing as Ella Drake:
This is crazy good for the sweet tooth & not so terrible for the diet I'm on. 😋
More garden pics! Eggplant, cucumber, and okra flowers. So pretty! Believe it or not, a few of these eggplants are ready to be picked. This is "patio baby," and they mature at 2-3" long.
Sooo hot. Yes, weather app, it makes sense to have an illustration of a white dude in winter/fall clothing. /sarcasm
Picked a few things from the garden. Not a lot of cucumber or tomato, yet. So this is appetizer-sized cucumber, tomato, basil from garden with mozzarella.
Garden looking good! I've already harvested tomatoes, lettuce, collards, and herbs (parsley, rosemary, sage, thyme, basil, dill, oregano, and tarragon). And I started some bok choy from kitchen scraps (produce from Costco) I am a big proponent of at least trying to grow your own herbs!
Eating healthy is so yummy and can be super easy. Yummy lentil soup & a simple salad.
This doesn't look like much, but this series outline is the result of hours of working through timeline & plot issues. I was stuck for a couple of YEARS because of the day job(s) & extended family stresses. But I finally figured it out in a way that makes me incredibly happy.
Had to move most of the sage and all of the lavender out of the garden. They had grown into large bushes & were taking up at least a quarter of the garden!
Space Grit is back up on Kobo & available through Kobo Plus! eeeeeeeee!!! www.kobo.com/us/en/series...
My new covers/selling direct books have started trickling in on Kobo.
Woot! It shouldn't really have taken long, but I had to edit the files a bit.
When people talk about Thoreau & share images of Walden Pond, they never show pics of how most locals view Walden. Pic from newengland.com/travel/massa...
Okay. I don't know what I'm doing. I don't draw, really ever, and I never use digital drawing tools. I followed a how-to-draw for this 🤣 But drawing on the Supernote felt good! The image isn't all that clear. But I did a thing!
Cleaning out some office stuff—and I'm nowhere near done—found this. I don't even remember. Did i get a PAN pin? Was there one? I worked hard to get "status" in RWA. And now? I don't know what to do with this pin. I don't regret the work. And the org did help me in meaningful ways.
The rib roast side of Costco's large pork loin. Vacuum sealed with butter, salt, pepper, and herbs from garden: sage, rosemary, and thyme. Putting it in the freezer to sous vide later.
These bees are all over my flowering oregano. www.sharpeatmanguides.com/sweat-bees
I swear, y'all. I did not buy white eggplant seeds. It's like I'm growing eggs
Some of my dried lavender flowers. Need to finish these up & store them. Smells awesome!
I don't understand this cover change. bpl.overdrive.com/media/424805...