Snowpocalypse

5 buses stuck on Pine

our neighborhood

an anonymous snowman

Thundersnow

Turns out thundersnow is an actual term. We were awoken at 5:30am to crazy thunder and lightning and again at 6:30 to a snowday phonecall. It's already been called for tomorrow.

Ork Posters! City Neighborhood Posters

Ork Posters! City Neighborhood Posters

Updates

Some gifts

And a historic moment of elbow meets turkey.

Recovered Photo

I took this photo back in the fall of 2005. It was super flat, gray lighting. It sat around on my hard drive because I didn't have a clear plan what to do with it. Not anymore.

From Kayaking Photos

Where do monsters come from?

How to heal a broken foot

Step 1: Stop riding your bike to work and borrow a friend's supercool hipster scooter:

Step 2: Be sure to wear a helmet.

Step 3: Put on your gloves so everyone will understand that you are hardcore.

Step 4: Pose like the proud scooterer you are.

Step 5: Remember to start the engine.

Step 6: Scoot around the parking lot at work. Scoot away from the camera so that you can be photographed scooting toward the camera. Never drive over 7 mph.

Step 7: Pretend to run over David, the photographer. Look like you are concentrating.

Step 8: Give David credit for making you look AWESOME. Oh wait, the scooter does that already.

Rocket

Setting up:

Getting ready:

There it goes!

Now how are we going to find it?

More Wallowas

From Travel

From Travel

Wallowas

Our campsite in the Wallowas:



Random roadside farm field:

WIP: Twiga

It might be still a work in progress, it might be done. I haven't decided yet.

If Shelley could silk-screen this I'd be psyched, but I suspect line drawings are hard to silk screen.

Cooper River Weekend

It was a glorious weekend, and the Cooper River (possibly my favorite river ever) was flowing perfectly. No, we did not run the falls in this photo. Nobody does. It's not compatible with life.

Moved

We finally can see out from under all the boxes. Lots of projects are underway around here- the painting, sewing window shades for all of our narrow windows, and lots and lots of using a drill. It was an experience, getting started, and has so far turned out ok. I have to wait for daylight to go away as they are not photographing very well.

I've never really used a drill before so that has been fun to learn how to choose a bit, drill a pilot hole, put in anchors, try to get out misplaced anchors, etc. The folks who sold the condo did quite a bit of work before they left and some of it is great and some makes no sense at all. So we've been doing things like repainting the baby poop gold bedroom a light blue (before and after photos to come) and moving towel rods from inappropriate locations.

I hung some nice ikea shelves in the craft room to house some boxes and Kennet and his Dad made us some fabulous beautiful shelves for the closet in the kitchen, which was a coat closet but is now a much needed pantry.

Behold.
All of this stuff was on the floor until about 10 minutes ago.

I also got a great craigslist find- this Danish Modern chair. It's been well loved, but I think it will be a fun project when I get to it in about six months.

Pocket Park

It looks like we're moving at the end of the month just around the corner from this tree. I had read about it a while ago, but I don't think I realized that it was considered a city park of .02 acres. I wonder if that's the world's smallest park.

We've been having a lot of fun reading this blog- someone actually has enough time to listen to the police scanner and blog about it on a regular basis? It's pretty fascinating to see what all the crazies are up to.

In near record time

After a big trip, it takes me a while before I'm really ready to clean up the photos and prepare them for sharing. I need to see each photo about eight times before I can come to any sort of conclusion about what I think about them.

The Picasa Album for the Grand Canyon exists. That's a start. It even has some photos in it now: even better. Someday it will have even more.

Behold.

Day 3892

Well I fell off the bandwagon (or just the wagon?) obviously but I have pictures to prove that I've been busy. Still loving the new camera even though it seems to have more of a delay that I thought it did originally.

Here is some evidence of the busy-ness:

10K Trail Run, my first race since 9th grade
I didn't place, but I did win socks!

Screenprinting class

And of course, work.

Day 4

Today we kicked off a bed for staff in the garden. I found this sign, meant to direct kids to taste things.

Day 3

The parking lot at work got "cleaned up" for Dinner in the Woods, but they missed this little guy.

Day 2

Skunk Cabbage from my walk with Maddi. Some day spring will actually follow.

30 days: Day 1

Kennet replaced my old Nikon Coolpix with a new Canon A720 yesterday from Glazers. It was a nice experience all around walking to an actual camera store and talking to a real person before picking out this one. It turned out to be a sunny day and we stopped in the Cascade P-patch on the way home which was full of tulips and people's herbs.

I'm committing to 30 pictures in 30 days to reintroduce myself to taking photos. I used to do a lot of photography, starting with my Pentax K1000 that my dad bought me in high school (Kennet and I still have our twin K1000s). I more or less gave it up when Kennet and I starting dating because he puts considerably more effort into it than I do. When my old friend Rachel noticed on our Grand Canyon trip that I wasn't taking many photos - the fact that she noticed and commented on it --I felt like I was missing out on something. So K surprised me with the idea and here we are.

Here is day 1. I chose it because it represents a lot in my life right now. New shoes, meditation, a 10K, and a knee that doesn't hurt.

More

We've had some requests for a few more photos. Soon we'll post some from our GC float trip. . .

Before

DavidIn the car

During

After

David insisted on this door for some reason