Category: Life & Miscellany
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Seven for seven
I can hardly believe it, but I’ve now lived in the Pacific Northwest for seven years. In that time I’ve done my very best to see as much of the region as possible, and document it all in my sketchbook. So in honor of seven years, here are seven sketchbook drawings— —presented in no particular…
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Berry jamboree
Because we’re having a record-hot summer this year, everything is coming into season early. And it’s all ripening at once, which made us look at the shelf of canning jars in panic. But there was nothing for it but to dive in and start filling jars (and jars and jars).
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Midsummer sights
For the first time in anybody’s memory around here, the height of the season has actually arrived by the time the official solstice declared it “summer.” And as if on cue, it’s summer around our house, too. So it seemed fitting to take a break from the more pressing repairs on our new house and…
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Proud day
Babe Didrikson Zaharias and other LGBTQ public figures of her time didn’t have the option of living their lives they way they chose. But we think it’s a bit of poetic justice that the Supreme Court made their landmark decisions on all three LGBTQ cases (Obergefell v. Hodges in 2015, United States v. Windsor in…
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Souvenirs of 35 years
I have my tiny souvenir bottle of Mount Saint Helens ash sitting on my desk right now, as a reminder that it was thirty-five years ago today that the mountain erupted. The event happened a year before I was born, so it’s not like I have personal memories of it—but Mt. St. Helens still crops…
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Apple blossom time
I took this photo of one of our apple trees a couple of weeks ago, when the blossoms were at their peak. Now the tree just has a couple of blooms still hanging on— —but if you look closely, it has other surprises in store.
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In the pink
The rhododendroon is the state flower of Washington, so it’s not like I’m not used to seeing them around town. But this pink monster, which practically dwarfs our neighbor’s house, is something else again. Spring was never my favorite season before we moved to the Northwest (I’m more of an autumn gal in general), but…
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Shelf life
You’ll have to excuse the grainy photos—snapping pictures in the basement is never ideal. But this shelf sure is—last week the Tailor built me an enormous inventory storage system, and over the weekend I finally organized my entire stock of stationery. It’s hard to see the scale here, but this monster is about 8 x…
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Weekend revels
I took a rare day off on Friday, to get out of the studio and gather some inspiration in the…um..field. My trip turned into a mini-adventure, full of Washington wonders. Catching the moonrise on my way home was an extra-special bonus, because it reminded me to set an alarm— —so that I could catch a…