Tag: photography
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Hoarfrost
My next-door neighbor’s artichokes just can’t help but be gorgeous—in every season of the year. With no effort, nature can make a filigree that I could never hope to match in a million years.
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Holiday morning
I love the hush that takes over the house, after the turkey goes in the oven and the table is set (and the sketches sketched!), but before the guests start arriving. It’s that little breath of time that reminds me to pause and remember that every raised glass, every hug, every laugh around the table…
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Birthday
I woke up this morning to a pile of all my favorite things—the best birthday haul any artist could ask for. Today is still a studio day, but those tickets say I’ll be having a grand time at the Pantages tonight!
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Packing the important stuff first
I’m leaving for a fall vacation in a few days, so my to-do list has things like passports and battery chargers on it. But the things I took care of first? Refilling my watercolor set, and knitting up some mittens for the trip. Because, you know, priorities.
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The canning season
It’s the time of year where our kitchen is a lot hotter—and the days much longer—than anything summer might throw at us naturally. The Tailor and I have been up late with the dilly beans, out at dawn at the Blueberry Park, and across the mountains to get peaches right off the tree. And then…
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Victoria the Second
I just got back from a return trip to Victoria—this time with the Tailor in tow. We were only there for a couple of days, but long enough for me to see the Gardens—and sketch them— —in their summer colors. This was the Tailor’s first trip to Victoria, so I got to relive some favorite…
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Postcard-perfect
We’ve had just about the most perfect spring here this year—with weather so unseasonably sunny, for weeks on end, that it simply would be criminal not to get outside for every second one can. On days like this, work can wait awhile—and the camera moves to the front burner. When the sun is shining here,…
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Steam punks
Wayzgoose worked like a well-oiled machine this year—and that’s the way we like it. (Even if we were just a little extra tired afterward.) We were finally able to have the event in the parking lot next door, which allowed way more people to gather ’round the steamroller—and gave the artists more elbow room for…
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Tulip telepathy
Yesterday was such a beautiful day, and my hands so badly needed a break from carving, that I took a day off and headed upstate to bask in the tulip fields. And then, when I got home, there was a postcard waiting for me from my friend Jen—from her own tulip tour in the Netherlands.…
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All is calm, all is bright
Today contains some of the few precious hours in the entire year that are just for us—when we can just be. We love the whirlwind of lights, colors, food, friends, music and surprises that comes with the holidays, but it’s the day we set aside for nothing but time that we look forward to all…