Author: -N-

One of the Best Oatmeal Raisin Cookie Recipes Ever!

These came to dinner one night . . . and then the recipe moved in!

Oatmeal Raisin Cookies

Preheat oven to 375 F.

Mix together until creamy:
2 1/2 cubes of butter, softened (1 1/4 c)
3/4 c. brown sugar
1/2 c. white sugar

Add and beat in:
1 egg
1 tsp. vanilla

Add to the mixture, beating in:
1 1/2 c. white flour
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. cinnamon
1/2 tsp. fresh grated nutmeg

Stir in:
3 c. old-fashioned oats, or a mixture of 2 c. oats and 1 c. Trader Joe’s mixed grains
1 c. chopped walnuts
1 c. raisins

Use a tablespoon to drop onto cookie sheets; bake for 10-11 minutes.

Please Be Seated

This is a doozy of a pano – about 40 – taken with the Df and the 70-300 Tamron.  I used MS’s Image Composition Editor.  It does a really good job, much faster the Photoshop.  Click on the image a couple of times to see the detail and size of this picture – and I reduced it substantially from the original pano!

This particular bench is a favorite of mine, both to photograph and to plop down upon to survey the world around me.

Yet Another Tree

I don’t live in a very exciting city, with high rises and fascinating places to go.  Little if any long history, with conquistadors and religious wars and so on.  Rather, I live in a place where suburbs exist, farm land and ranches are nearby, and the open spaces are places of refuge from long work days.  Although I was born in Chicago, most of my life has been spent in rural areas and small towns.  Today, I live in the biggest town since I was born, with 127,000 population, but it was designed to include 30% of it being reserved for open space.  How lucky am I?  Pretty darn lucky!