Dana

@dscopatz.bsky.social

160 Followers 553 Following

Four 12 foot long 1x4s (but stacked so it looks like 2) taking up the entire freaking length of a Highlander and sticking out the back window. Also you can see my shoulder in the lower right corner and there’s a snowflake on my sweater because of course it started snowing while I was loading the lumber.
A large circle of chocolatey goodness sprinkled with chopped nuts, dried fruits, and flower petals.
Two loaves of focaccia, one studded with apple bits and one topped with thinly sliced potatoes, cheese, bacon, and green onions.
A quarter sheet pan of cheesy focaccia.
A glass cup hanging by its handle from a black plastic hook over the edge of a black milk crate.
Chicken salad on a slightly smooshed croissant. Chunks of cherry are visible. There is also a lettuce leaf, but it only seems to be on about half of the sandwich. Who made this thing anyway?
A baby deer nibbling on a small cherry tree. Might be eating cherries, but probably just leaves because the cherries that are left are mostly higher up.
A burger one a bun, cut in half. If you look closely you can see the chopped up cherry bits. It’s topped with “blue” cheese that is actually oozy white with greenish streaks.
It looks like refried beans with a cherry in a blue bowl, but it’s not, it’s rice pudding, I swear.
A ramekin of beautiful chopped cherries, red onion, and jalapeño, with a tortilla chip sticking out of it. So bright! So colorful!
A big slab ‘o bread studded with bright red cherries and bits of white cheese.
A salad of bread cubes, tomatoes, sour cherries, torn basil, and fresh mozzarella with a vinaigrette dressing in a metal bowl.
A cherry pie. The top crust has Minecraft related cutouts. A creeper, Steve, a sword, and a pickaxe.
A large stockpot containing 15 lbs of sour cherries.
A lake with trees in the background. There is a swimming area roped off with a floating trampoline, diving platform, and slide. The platform and trampoline are full of seagulls.
Two gold framed pendants, one with a light background and one dark, framing dried flower petals in resin.
A four inch round sugar cookie frosted to look like a planet with oceans, continents, and ice caps. Orange fish-shaped sprinkles frolic in the blue waters.
A collage of festive food including roast pork, green salad with pickled apples, green beans with pomegranate pips and pistachios, and goofy sugared cookies that are supposed to look like peaches and kinda sorta do.
A small dish of chocolate ganache on a counter with a partially peeled banana in the foreground.
A dozen or so red saffron threads on brown parchment paper.
A small purple crocus with three red threads growing from its bright yellow center.
Small plates each holding three spheres of golden yellow cheesecake and a scoop of glazed diced mango and pomegranate pips.
A pale purple crocus with golden stamens and three long thin red threads growing from the center.
Selfie of a very proud mom & dad and an 18 year old standing by an American flag at their polling place wearing “I voted” stickers.
A very odd scarecrow slouched in a camp chair holding a bowl of Halloween candy.
A brown paper fast food bag with a single french fry poking at a jaunty angle through the paper.
Zucchini cut into noodles and sautéed, topped with steak and a piece of baguette. (Also a LOT of garlic, but that doesn’t show.)
Two crispy French baguettes sitting on top of whole roasted sweet potatoes on a metal tray.
Bright green olives and individual cloves of garlic, both slightly blistered from heat, in oil in a small cast iron skillet.
A block of white cheese in a small cast iron skillet. The cheese is deliciously crispy golden brown on top.
About two inches of knit cuff consisting of a blue rib topped by a row of tiny envelopes sealed with hearts and then a cream colored stripe with a green vine and pinkish-red floral design.
The first inch of an incredibly cute knitting project consisting of a blue ribbed cuff topped by tiny white envelopes sealed with hearts.
Seven balls of fingering weight silk yarn in various colors.
Sour straw candy with package description: “Pickle Roulette. Taste to test your odds! Pickle flavored straws in every pack.”
The beginnings of a hand-knit cowl with a baking themed pattern including whisks, cakes, pastry bags and mixers.
Egg Noodles on a drying rack.
A big glass of pickle lemonade with a pickle slice garnish.
Fried Green tomato on a bun with toppings. Fruity drink in the background.
A counter at a MN State Fair Fudge shop with lots of crazy flavors.
Partially knitted copper brown and gold fingerless gloves on knitting needles.
Two large yellow excavators with barely visible and sadly not recognizable operators