Just a few images of the Easter before and after (thanks Carol…) and have you ever had “monster fruit”??? New to us…good though odd… Back to mundane reality today…went to the CARWASH!! (I do love the car wash…today I was taking photos, talking on the phone and rolling through…) I think these are winners…
Category: Celebrations
Gathering Steam…
Thanks readers, for all the good birthday wishes. It was a busy week last week including a few meetings (possibly you can tell where I was sitting?)… and here’s my ukulele teacher Ron with HIS birthday present (the day before)…an electronic bass ukulele! Rock on…(and he will) Sharon and I went to ukulele “graduation” (well..it’s […]
MY LIFE SO FAR…
I published this on my birthday in 2009, and also in 2011, but I still think it tells my story, so let’s go again!! Today is my birthday and I’ve attained a certain age. I have plans, things to do, places to go. But today I’m looking back. (I tried to cut my own bangs–oops.) […]
Playing with your food…
March is birthday month in our family…Bru, Emma, Gabrielle, Doug, ME (!) and Friday we went to Portland to celebrate Jennifer’s birthday. It was toooo much fun. Somebody gave her a Wonder Woman lunch box filled with plastic creatures, and she really got going on the hors d’oeuvres plate…food styling reaches a new mark… We […]
Inauguration Day…2-10-12…
A big day at the university as Stephen E. Thorsett became the 25th president of Willamette University. Susan and I got there early to get a seat… and the auditorium and the stage slowly filled with flags and scholars until Chaplain Charlie Wallace began with an invocation… Many scholars and students, university presidents and tribal […]
Unmistakable Signs of Spring…
Today I noticed our first camellia, fully open. When we moved to Oregon years ago from Chicago I thought the camellias blooming in spring were miraculous. Now I think of them as pesky, as they fall on the car and make the driveway slippery, but the first one is still a treat…Spring is here! And […]
Birthday weekend…
Friday was sunny and bright so we went to one of my FAVORITE spots before heading to the beach for Cheryl’s birthday weekend, wherein Ashton sang and Cheryl made a wish… and the rest of us just laughed all weekend (have you ever played “Apples to Apples”??), heading home Sunday with snow threatened in the […]
THINK LOCAL…!
Only a few more shopping days left…no better time to make the rounds like I did here and here…don’t forget Bush Barn, Cooke’s Stationery(stocking stuffers!!) The Arbor, Ma Valise, Mary Lou Zeek, The Art Department, Greenbaum’s, Ranch Records, Fitts…
City Days
We’ve gotten in the Christmas spirit by spending a few days in the city, a trip that began as R attending a meeting, and turned into a three day festival of varied activities that surprised us with how much you can really cram into three days. I could draw it out over several posts but […]
On The Way 