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…
Tara Choate 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…
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…
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…