Pixie's day off...

I was out shopping in San Francisco last Friday, hitting a few of my favourite haunts around the Mission District, and basically just enjoying a blissfully sunny afternoon after such a long, rainy wintery-season. You see, I hardly get outside these days as I'm mostly stuck indoors working on the noise project or at the dayjob, but since I had to be in town anyway for a long overdue lunch with my ex (who I hadn't seen for almost seven years, a very long story which I won't go into here!) I decided to spend the rest of the day away from my worktable and tools and see what's been going on in all those cute little shops I've missed so much.

My first stop was Scarlet Sage (highly recommended if you are in the area of Valencia and 22nd Street, San Francisco), and was sort of like a kid in a candy shoppe with all of the hundreds of varieties to choose from. I ended up with a nice arrangement of incense, ranging from loose charcoal powders to resin-dipped sticks. They're all wonderful, but out of the assortment my favourite one is made by a company in New Mexico called Fred Soll. I have never found a stick incense quite like it. It's got so much resin in the stick that the second you hold a match to it, the oil starts to glisten and almost drips right off the stick. This is a good thing, actually.

I was very happy to find that Fred Soll's incense is also available online via his website and the prices are exactly the same as in the shops. I highly recommend the White Sage & Dragon's Blood (the package contains 10 heavily-resin-coated sticks that have been rolled lightly in crushed white sage).

mmmmmmmmmmmm..........