As Angela mentioned the other day, there are just 6 weeks left in the year. I’ve loved my apple project so I’ve been thinking quite a bit about the next resolution. I loved the photographic aspect of the project and I think I’ll continue doing the sky Photos, but I have two other projects in…

Apple 314 and our new Glockenspiel Apple 313, Black Gesso, and glitter Apple 312, Tom restrings his lap steel. Apple 311 and my two favorite creatures taking a nap together. Apple 310 and my messy desk. Apple 309 and the first black gesso test Apple 308 watching Yo Gabba Gabba at Mo’s house. Thanks Lauren…

Just down the road from us is a cute little graveyard with lots of old headstones and great mushrooms. Too bad so many of the headstones are worn down. Maybe of the dates were from the late 1800s.

Saturday November 14th was the big Glass Ball Gala Fundraiser event for the Portland Youth Development Coalition. It was an absolute blast. Highlights for me and Tom were the two musical acts, Dutch Masters (Dandy Warhols) and The Robinsons (Viva Voce). So good! So good! We got to stand just feet from them. The Robinsons…

There’s a great show at Disjecta from November 14th through December 20th at Disjecta of works from Anna Fidler and David Stein. Anna’s very large works on paper are all scenes from Portland Trailblazers basketball games. The surface of the drawings are absolutely covered with topographic map-type lines, dots, and stains. David Stein’s small works…

We took Mississippi to the Sellwood Off Leash Dog Park this morning. It is fenceless. It’s our very first attempt at taking her off leash without the security of fences. She did great! She went down to the beach a couple times, which is not an off leash area, but we got her to come…

So I just got my very first exposure to Lady Gaga in the form of the Bad Romance video. Wow. Wacky… is really all I can say. My friend was Lady Gaga for Halloween, at first I just though she’d dressed up as a hooker, a “classy”*, futuristic hooker. I realized I’m missing out on…

Mississippi is an excellent slug and grub hunter. She is doing a great job of clearing our garden of pests. I appreciate this about her. I bet she’d make a great truffle sniffer too. I do not like the fact that she brings them inside the house to toss around and play with. They are…

I’ve just been through a very rough day. I thought I’d post about it in the hopes of saving someone from a similar fate. I’ve been postponing updating my machine to Snow Leopard because I was worried it would break my work environment which would be very, very bad. But yesterday I had some time…

Our dog is on a roll. She’s making progress so fast right now and we’re so proud of her. It’s like she can tell that we are head over heels in love with her and she’s milking us for attention and snacks. I’ve started letting her off the leash a little, just in places I…

Mississippi has nightmares quite often. When she awakes, she half barks every second or two as if she’s calling out in distress to make sure we are there. We call back to her “It’s ok Mississippi, you are ok.” She’ll then usually curl up and go back to sleep. We’re starting to think she can…

What the sky looked like in October. Most were taken in Portland, pills Or except for the last couple which were taking in San Francisco and Berkeley. More sky pics on my flickr account.

Apple 300 I’m starting a new series on paper. Apple 299 An assignment in making/finding your own painting tools. Apple 298 Chinese lanterns for fall decoration Apple 297 Just another apple. I think this was the first solid apple I’d eaten in a while. Apple 296 Apple sauce for sicky. Apple 295 Very sick, can’t…

We’ve had Mississippi seven months now and we are completely head over heels in love with her. She’s amazing, she’s beautiful, she’s cute and cuddly and sweet. She’s still a tornado of trouble, but it’s mostly cute now, like having a teenage daughter that you love to pieces but who likes to try your patience…