Here are my favorites from last night’s First Thursday. It was cold outside and traffic was slow early on, though it looked like it was picking up as I was leaving. Maybe I smelled bad. There is some amazing art this month in Portland. Make sure you get out there. Kristen Miller at PDX Contemporary…

To get you in the Christmas spirit if you were lagging behind.

Only 30 more apples to go until I reach my 365 apple goal for 2009! I love them more now than I did starting this project. I can’t believe this project is wrapping up so soon. I’m not sure what to do with it. There’s been mumblings in my head about a show and or…

We joined Big Leaf Farm’s winter CSA program and I just picked up our first installment yesterday. We got beautiful red carrots, savoy cabbage, onions, garlic, acorn squash. fennel, pak choy, and broccoli. To celebrate last night I made some farro risotto with savoy cabbage, bacon, mushrooms and apple. It was yum yum yum. Farro…

Here is last month.

We had such a nice weekend. I had to work Friday but it wasn’t too busy and I was able to get out a little early. Thanskgiving was great, leftovers are still great. We went to Amy Ruppel’s studio and I got one of the bee paintings for the state of Mississippi. Here it is:…

Yesterday was a day full of firsts for Mississippi. It was her first full day with little kids, it was her first dinner party and it was her first time spending several hours in someone else’s house. She was amazing, I am flabbergasted. We were really nervous about bringing her to Thanksgiving. We thought there…

Apple 324 was an ambrosia Apple 323 was eaten on a day full of fret and worry. Apple 322 is playing Vanna White to our Thanksgiving Turkey Apple 321 is an Arkansas Black, modeled by the lovely and talented Emelyn in Seattle. Apple 320 was eaten in celebration of getting my computer back up and…

I’ve been taking way too long to finish these 4 paintings. This week I haven’t even wanted to look at them. So today I’m making myself look at them. I finally took photos and uploaded them to Flickr. It’s helping. I’m thinking about directions and it’s helping. I started these four not having any idea…

Recently our friends Azure and Jason moved up to Seattle from the LA area. There are just a 3 hour train or car ride away now. We are so excited that we share the same storms now. We drove up Saturday morning to spend a short weekend with them and their two kids. We went…

We’re driving up to Seattle tomorrow morning to see our friends Azure and Jason. I haven’t seen Azure since our wedding and I miss her.

Apple 319 Drinking icky herbs from my acupuncturist. The apple is a welcome palette cleanser. Apple 318 Slow progress on my four paintings on paper. This is at PNCA in the painting studios. Apple 317 My computer broke and I’m backing everything up so I can wipe my drive and start fresh. It’s the beginning…

My computer died. It’s totally dead. The hard drive is still there but it won’t boot, not even in unix mode. It’s dead. I am backing up the hard drive and am going to just wipe the drive clean and o a fresh install of everything. It’s going to take a long time. It involves…

Adam Sorensen visited our advanced painting class last weekend to show his work. He paints wild, imaginary landscapes in a mix of dark and bright, sometimes neon colors. At times his work reminded me of a painter’s version of Ralph Bakshi. The mood of the paintings share a mix of eeriness, doomy-gloomy, cartoonishness and hopefulness.…