Farm Fresh.

I was so happy to see cookbook author Nancy Singleton Hachisu and her husband, Tadaaki, an organic egg farmer, profiled on The Selby yesterday. Nancy and Tadaaki's farm is located in rural Japan; last fall, Nancy authored a cookbook, Japanese Farm Food, based on the fresh and flavorful foods they enjoy there. (Around the time of the book's release, I had the pleasure of attending a dinner in Nancy's honor at one of my favorite neighborhood restaurants, Diner. I was blown away by the food, all of which was made using her recipes, and now treasure my copy of the cookbook.) 

Did I mention that Nancy teaches cooking classes and runs an English-immersion preschool on the farm, as well? Feast your eyes, below. (And see the rest on The Selby, here.)

Have a warm and wonderful Tuesday!

PS: I'm guest-pinning all this week for online art gallery Ugallery. I'll be pinning different categories of art each day til the 14th, so please be sure to check back often - thank you to Ugallery for having me!

Photographs by Todd Selby. 

Windows.

I've been dreaming of travel lately, and artist Jim Darling's paintings of the views outside airplane windows are only fueling the wanderlust. (My favorite's the one of the city at night.)

See more at Jim Darling's website, here. In other news, I hope you're all having a lovely start to the week. I'm still recovering after three very late nights in a row - yesterday, I capped off a falafel-filled evening with a showing of Django Unchained. Have any of you seen it yet? Thoughts?

Max Pix.

A few favorites from Max's very beautiful round-up of photographs from 2012. 

See more at Max's new blog, here. (Scroll through and look for Elmo - that one's another personal favorite of mine.) And have a wonderful weekend!

Cheese & Chocolate.

Evidently, Nicola Rowlands is a woman after my own heart.

Both aprons available for purchase, here (along with pocket manfriends, an old favorite, and these four "slightly different cats.") Happy Thursday!

2013.

Hello again, wonderful readers - I hope you had a restful and restorative few days! (My time at home involved a whole lot of this.) To kick off 2013, here are a few shots from a slideshow curated by TIME LightBox called "Rainbows in the Frame" - I couldn't think of a more apt metaphor for the year we've just left behind.

See the rest of the slideshow, here. Wishing you all an inspiring and adventurous 2013!

(Oh, and I have a new post up at the Equals Record this week, about the bittersweet nature of falling in love with a city that happens to be thousands of miles from home. You can find it here - thank you so much for reading!)

Images: Gene Blevins - Reuters; Qais Usyan - AFP/Getty Images; Narciso Contreras - AP; Frank Franklin II - AP; Michael Nagle - Getty Images.