On Tuesday night we heard the excellent James E. Hansen speak at Willamette University giving the annual Dempsey environmental lecture. Hansen is not a totally charismatic speaker, but the message was all the more grave as the audience began to understand that he was spending his life not only in research and writing, but in […]
Category: Modern Life
Sign of the Times….
We drive by them daily, all of us. Being visual, I’m always attracted to the signs people hold while panhandling…Have thought of taking a series of photos, I see a cool one and then… I’m in a hurry, or there’s no place to park…I drive on by. This time I stopped and asked if I […]
Messages…
I bought a children’s book at Value Village the other day…it’s in Japanese (I think…nope…Willy Wonky and JE both say Korean) I don’t know Japanese (or Korean either)… I just liked the illustrations. It made me think of what it was like before I could read, as I began to turn the pages and look […]
Clay Ball, 2012
Last night was the13th annual “Clay Ball” wherein artists and “patrons” come together to support the arts in our community. The theme this year was the 60’s…Mad Men-inspired…and people took it seriously and came dressed for the moment… there was a photo booth with “props” lovely blondes everywhere… friends discussing auction items (…”should we go […]
Leftovers…
…and I don’t mean pot roast. There are always great shots left over, images that didn’t exactly fit into the discourse of the week, but that hold my attention anyway…here are a few from the week just past with no explanations at all…
Wednesday Miscellany…and Pot Roast
Wednesday was one of those good solid days…early start, many facets, lots done. But first (and actually it WAS the first thing in the day), the pot roast. We, as a rule, don’t eat red meat (…well maybe the occasional lamb chop…), but R has had a hankering for pot roast. I have only made […]
Ukulele Update…
After week four I’m pretty sure I’m not a brilliant player, but it sure is fun…especially with my “SNARK” that keeps me in tune… “MY DOG HAS FLEAS”…and by the way, ukulele means “jumping flea”…(we learned this week from a classmate who lived in Hawaii for years that the slang for head lice in Hawaii […]
Flood Report: Day 2
Last night the water kept rising…streaming out of the creek onto the streets…and it looked like this: but this morning the waters were down… so I had a coffee with a friend and headed to the gym. The gym sits on a rise above Wallace Marine park…a big park with ball fields and many paths…but […]
Flood Report…
Seattle is snowed in but down here in the Willamette Valley we are in a flood. I went out at noon to check a neighbor’s house who is on vacation, and saw that Mill Creek is flooding… Then at 4:00 we thought we’d go take a survey and didn’t have to go far…here’s our corner […]
And so the New Year BEGINS!
We’re back. What a terrific holiday we had, and what a lovely beginning to 2012 from the beach. I finished a few 2011 projects like the ugly fabric challenge quilt # 2 and the utopia quilt we hung up the Christmas present lantern from “Santa” took in the bright moonlight (sorry…cellphone photo) reflected in the […]
On The Way 