Learning how to shoot bows and arrows

All of the pictures in this post are by Gavin.

Two Saturdays ago, we went to learn how to shoot bows and arrows in the Arroyo Seco, near the Rose Bowl. The Rose Bowl is surrounded by park spaces and wild-ish spaces. Native oaks grow all around it.  Just past the grass in this picture is a concrete channel for the river that flows through this area.

The Pasadena Roving Archers give lessons to newbies. And they lend out bows and arrows. Here I am waiting to learn. I have a quiver strapped to my jeans pocket.

We practiced shooting paper targets fastened to straw bales.

And we enjoyed the clean, cold early Saturday morning air.

Published on February 11, 2010 12:14 pm.
Filed under: Miscellaneous

4 Comments »

  1. Cafe Pasadena says:
    February 11, 2010 at 4:12 pm

    Oh boy! We’re having a blog explosion here today. Is the 11th a special day?

    I’m not complaining – these are wunderfu!!

  2. Jill says:
    February 11, 2010 at 4:15 pm

    Maybe so! I had not thought of that. Mostly I have a big back log of photos, so I thought I’d better get started posting.

  3. Mom says:
    February 12, 2010 at 5:43 am

    Very nice shots Jill. Hope you continue

  4. anne says:
    March 6, 2010 at 5:54 pm

    It’s beautiful there. Sounds like fun!

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Red cushions for the Morris chair

Published on June 2, 2010 9:50 pm.
Filed under: Keeping house

Monday’s lunch came from the garden.

We planted potatoes by setting a few old potatoes with lots of eyes on the ground and dumping buckets of dirt over them.  Potato plants grew and then died back. I went into the back yard with my gardening fork and lifted these out of one of the dirt mounds. I think there are still twice as many left in the ground. I figure they’ll keep well there, and if they sprout more eyes they will already be in the right place.

These artichokes grew along the side of the house. I served them with lemon juice from a neighbor’s lemons and my favorite California olive oil from Beyond the Olive. I’ve never tasted artichokes this fresh before, and they were so tender and flavorful that they almost didn’t need a sauce.

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Filed under: Eating and drinking, Garden

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I like the way they look when they’re hanging on the clothes line. They used to have ragged edges, and they would fray in the washer and dryer or look embarrassingly messy drying on the line in the back yard. These look pretty. And if they get mixed up with the regular laundry, it’s easy to keep retired washcloth cleaning rags from being confused with washcloths in good standing.

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Published on May 5, 2010 2:19 pm.
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Filed under: Garden

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Filed under: Garden