Ten days or so ago I dropped my iPad2 and smashed the glass (sob) but luckily the case wasn’t damaged. I began to search for repair options…Apple=$400…nope. The cheapest on-line repair I could find was $189. Then the Mac store in town pointed me to the Reboot Store (384 Center Street NE, 503-363-8221) right in […]
Category: Just visual
On to Vermont…
Leaving downtown Boston we drove back across Massachusetts (with more fall color, but only just beginning) on our way to visit Ellen and Larry in rural Vermont… they live on 20 or so acres near Dummerston, Vermont, which is near Brattleboro…and with good directions we actually found them. The quilts were airing as a welcome… […]
The Fairy Lights…
The fairy lights needed some work…burned out lights, dusty…so I got some new lights, put all the “shades” on them, put them back in place and turned them on…MAGIC…
Cortona at last…
Yes, the first cappuch…a welcome sight on the first morning. We over-slept and while the whole group was touring Cortona we sat in the breakfast room drinking in the views with the coffee. from below Cortona looks like this and at the top is Piazza Garibaldi where the Hotel San Luca is located…built down the […]
Cortona…
We’re going to Cortona in May..R will be “leading” an alumni tour of some 40 people… He did the same in 2008 and it will be fun to get back to Italy. For the people in the group Roger has started a weekly blog to show them what we’ll see and get them in the […]
SNOW!!!
On the way home from the beach the other day it looked like this…what we hope is the last blast of winter…
Happy Valentines Day…
wish I was having a beautiful coffee with you all…someplace sunny would be nice…
…A DAZZLING Day…
Boy and it was. Bright sun, warm-ish, no wind. Bike ride, gardening, beach walk…and best of all the beach was filled with beach wares of the best type…beautiful and free in some of my favorite categories…red rocks, beach glass, agates, shells with holes, heart rocks, little white shell bits: Tonight the winter film festival continues […]
Presentation is all…
Every year R goes to the beach for a week before Christmas for his “winter retreat” which includes reading books, taking beach walks, drinking some scotch and…putting together some wacky and wonderful Christmas gifts. His wrappings sometimes include plastic vegetable bags, shells, unidentifiable items that are familiar yet not…boxes, tins, plastic containers. These are imaginative […]
Related only by color…
Guess I’m staying pretty quiet this week…not too much happening in my world so maybe the stuff right at home base gets looked at. First out in the studio playing around with Christmas card designs then after trimming the wisteria I noticed these little roses twining in the rosemary POURING cold rain tonight…off to bed.