My new favorite show
Ever since “Meerkat Manor” went off the air (remember Flower? Shakespeare? OMG that was the best show…) there has been a gaping hole in my life. The bird cams have…
Tara Choate Pavisand
pavisand, v. When this word came up in my “word of the day” a few weeks ago, I immediately thought of the tiny little male Anna’s hummingbirds that sit on…
How can I sell that?
A couple days ago I got into a discussion with my friend about my post “Almost There.” My friend liked my painting and asked me how I could bear to…
Not Sam Savitt
Today I went to Stacey Riggs‘ barn to watch the second half of a foundation workshop and her “Meet the Mustang” demo. I took my sketchbook and vowed to work…
It was a dark and stormy day…
The rumor is that March goes out like a lamb. Ha! But Finn was promised a hike and I know the Trilliums are blooming, so to Canemah we went. This…
Easily Entertained
The last couple of years, I have been captivated by the bird cams hosted by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. The first year it was the Red-Tailed Hawks that caught…
Almost there….
I have been battling a variety of physical complaints this week that have kept me close to home and more inclined to sleep than paint. However, I did go to…
588 Photos: The Reason to Edit
Today I went on a wildlife viewing tour of Sauvie Island with Oregon Wildlife. Originally this tour was supposed to coincide with the Audubon Society of Portland’s Annual Raptor Road…
Itchy and crazy
When I was about six I had my tonsils out. This was a good thing because until then I had spent a lot of time sick. In fact, one of…