Moonglow and Spring Caps
I went to painting class tonight and Anji announced that she had started a painting for the June Rose Festival Show at Oregon Society of Artists. Her introduction was “this…
Tara Choate Describing Colors
Every spring there comes one or two evenings when the sun comes out enough to get the crocus to bloom. About a week a ago, we had one such evening…
Sock Inspiration
Sometimes inspiration comes in strange places. For a couple of years I had been thinking that I should put up a website for my art. After all, I’m the webmaster…
The power of red
Well, I survived the Rose City Yarn Crawl this last weekend in good form and relatively inexpensively. There was the purple “Birds of a Feather” purchase. Then seven skeins of…
Party all the time
This has been an exciting week for me. I have been out late twice! It’s party all the time around here. The reason for all this excitement is the Rose…
King of the world
Today I recovered from workshop hangover by taking Finn for a hike at Canemah and running some errands. The hike was by far more fun. Everyone at Canemah was announcing…
Two steps forward, one step back
It has been an exciting week for me with ups and downs that kept me on the edge of my seat. I had signed up to take a workshop from…
What’s that color?
A couple of weeks ago I stayed home sick (I had a little fever and was achy.) I slept a lot and took the dog for a walk, but mostly…
Philopatric
Late 2011 through 2012 will forever be known as my “Année terrible”. I was in a car accident; I was laid off; my dad had heart surgery; my aunt died;…