First time with feeling
Aside from the seriousness of the issues surround the Women’s March on Washington, this week has been quite entertaining as my Facebook feed has been flooded with clever signs and…
Tara Choate Anxiety over a hat
I am not much of a protester. It isn’t that I don’t have a list of things I am protesting, but I tend to be a sort of middle-of-the-road person.…
Beginning the 2017 birding year
Because of the pneumonia, I missed the Salem Audubon Society‘s New Year’s birding trip around Minto Brown. Today was their regularly scheduled monthly outing to Ankeny. While I am still…
An inauspicious start
Well, my 2017 is certainly off to a lurching, rather upsetting start. Pneumonia On December 31 I took the dogs for a walk and noticed my lungs felt tight and…
2017 Goal List
Painting Keep painting Write more exclusively about art in my blog Attend critique group Investigate Salem group Enter both WSO shows April (actually already done! But unsuccessfully…) October Participate in…
2016 Goal List – Review
On this last day of 2016, I spent the day on a bit of a birding quest, trying to find the last five birds to complete my goal of 150…
How’s the blogging going – 2016 version
The end of 2016 marks the end of my third year blogging. A year ago, I posted about my second year of blog progress compared to my first. So, in…
Occasionally it’s just a cold way to paint
Last night I got ally my paint and paper ready for another round of ice painting. I was so happy with Friday night’s work that I had some ideas for…
How to have fun in the cold
Well, folks, Oregon has decided to do it’s leap year impersonation of Alaska. Wednesday we got about four inches of snow (enough to pretty much crash the state) and since…