Queenkv’s Brainpickings

So big and leafy. My dill plant buried under the potato leaves. I plan on moving that herb tomorrow. I love staring at our veggie garden and dreaming about the harvest. When life is crazy, it’s nice to have something solid and down-to-earth. Like this garden.

Hello May. I’m quite happy Vacaville got rain overnight. My veggie garden can use it and it syncs up nicely with my Saturday morning watering schedule. I’m also following all things about gardening, including the First Lady’s green efforts at the White House. I think Michelle Obama’s amazing. She’s a style icon, dressed in fashion-forward [...]

The leaves are changing color in Vacaville. I think we’ll have more vibrant colors as we get closer to winter. I’m looking forward to a consistent schedule as my newsroom heads into November Sweeps. As soon as I get over my sore feet from my 1st 5-mile run, I plan on repeating that run in [...]

Earlier this month, we checked out the Davis music scene with a KDVS concert. One of my favorite bands from my KALX days, Casiotone of the Painfully Alone, headlined the $5 concert at on the UC Davis campus. LA-Based Foot Foot opened up the show. Foot Foot @ UC Davis from Kris Vera-Phillips on Vimeo. [...]

originally uploaded by queenkv. Our Lodi Detour. I liked the Earthquake Zin at Michael-David’s. Wine tasting makes all roadtrips fun! Don’t worry. Mark’s DD.

I love this warm February weather. I’m in a better mood with all the sunshine. Mark and I are just tickled with seeing 70 degree temperatures before March. I feel like I have more energy to do stuff in this t-shirt weather. This morning, I finished running 2 miles by Alamo Creek. And this weekend, [...]

Mark, Daisy and I waited for the space shuttle Discovery to fly over Topeka about 15 minutes ago. We waited near Burnett’s Mound (site of the 1966 Tornado). It was cold and too damn bright to see shuttle hurling towards Earth. However, we heard two sonic booms pass over us. The pass over didn’t rattle [...]

I stumbled on this really cool Cal development on a Nashville blog: UC Berkeley puts hundreds of academic lectures on YouTube. Talking about kicking Fiat Lux to the next level — sharing the intellectual light online. Here’s a physics class by Professor Richard A. Muller. The most interesting and important topics in physics, stressing conceptual [...]

I saw this on Digg and I had to watch it for myself. The Daily Background » Blog Archive » Video- “The Viewâ€? co-host doesn’t know if the world is round or flat. Good grief — I understand the need to take care of your children, but to use it as an excuse for ignorance? [...]

Things are bumping nicely at work. It seems fireworks, cookies and the Independence holiday put folks back in a good mood. I had a blast taking live shots from Lake Shawnee for the choreographed light show. One anchor was kind enough to thank me for providing July 4th fun for the newscast. After our July [...]