I Need Suggestions About Local Garlic

[alfreda89]

Local folk--can anyone suggest where in Austin can I get three bulbs of garlic that still have long leaves? Dried is fine!

Would like to try a photo shoot for an Allie cover.

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[tylik.livejournal.com]

So, um... what are you thinking of in terms of an atmospheric background?

I was talking to Caitlin, the daughter of the guy who grows mushrooms for the farmers' market (both of whom are among my favorite people) and a retired science teacher (Caitlin and I were going on about how to teach science right, and she decided to join us ;-) we were all very much on the same page) and happened to glance across the way to Firefly Farms, where they had piles of garlic, and it occurred to me that Caitlin is quite small for her age, whereas Allie is notable not...



I've done only the barest minimum processing here, just removing the white side of a car that we used as a neutral backdrop (and not hugely carefully, hence the edges being a bit odd). I can send you the original if you'd like. Caitlin was apologetic about her scratched up hands - she'd been helping bring in hay yesterday - so I explained about the book in question. Now she wants to read it ;-)

Anyhow, don't know if you can use it, but the opportunity seemed too good to miss.

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

Thank you, what a cool thing!

I am struggling to get sprouting garlic (I may have a stand-in with sprouting shallots) because of its significance in the story, but I would enjoy using this on the Allie section of the web site that is supposed to get built in here somewhere around editing mine and others' stuff, job apps, being sick, and generally losing my mind. And writing the third book.

Zounds!

She can be my Allie icon right now. Is she an ereader person or a book person? Don't know when the POD will be done, that is another project.

(Allie's hands can be interped pretty much any way people want. She ends up tall, and she's kinda a Valkyrie next to her smaller, darker mom and sister. Other than that, as vague as people want to get. Her hands are strong and she works hard, but she's not the type of person to look at her hands much so far. Puberty may change that--seeing wealthy women who don't work.)

I got your neat report on the zendo, but did not know if you wanted that info on the Interweebs, so kept it masked.

[tylik.livejournal.com]

I don't know what here current reading preferences are - I was going to pick her up a copy of the ebook when it comes out - but I can ask. She might not be set up with a reader.

Physically she's much more an Idelia than an Allie - tiny with Irish pale skin and dark hair. Except I always thought of Idelia as being a bit more ladylike, and Caitlin's a budding field biologist. Well, technically she's studying for an integrated science teaching degree, but she spends a lot of her time tromping in the woods on her family's property, and her current internship is putting together a report on one of the watersheds near their home. I hope she might come and work for me some semester (though my friends in the amphibian lab who do field work might be more likely) - really, part of me thinks it would be great to lure her into research, because she'd be excellent at it, but then, it's probably even more important to get that kind of passion into a highschool classroom.

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

Caitlin sounds like she looks exactly like Allie's little sister (who arrives at the beginning of Book 3.) Or Cousin Esme, whom you will also meet in the new book.

She sounds like a great kid. And that's a toss-up for temptation--we need great minds in research, but also in the classroom. Of course they discourage kids with too high a grade point average from teaching HS or grade school. Or did when I went through.