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• Delicious Summer Evening

  It was unbelievably warm the other day so we spent the evening with friends on their deck. Just thought I’d share some happy snaps of another amazing meal.

  I’ve learned to like rosé. This one is a Muga and nicely crisp!

  Butter lettuce from our garden! Our first harvest. Loved the champagne vinegar dressing. Mmm…

  The guacamole is [...]

  Posted on Aug 16.07 to food, friends, garden, slowness   

• Marika and Ben’s Wedding Invitation

  As a gift, I offered to design a dear friend’s wedding invitations and here it is:

  Two details:

  Marika’s choice of colors — eggplant ink and chartreuse envelopes — complemented each other nicely. I was excited because I was finally able to use one of my favorite typefaces: Centaur. I just love the swash capitals.
  I’m looking forward [...]

  Posted on Aug 01.07 to design, freelance, friends, invitations, letterpress, wedding   

• Photographer, KayLynn Deveney

  Well, given the serious time away from posting, I have some catching up to do and sharing some news I received from a friend of ours seems a great way to get started.
  Our friend KayLynn Deveney recently sent us an email announcing that her book, The Day-to-Day Life of Albert Hastings is available for purchase. [...]

  Posted on Jul 31.07 to friends, photography   

• A friend found and a new bag

  Using LinkedIn, I found a friend I had lost touch with over the years. Thankfully Cydney and I started to catch up and a recent email from her let me and a few other friends know that she has started making bags based on a bag she found in Spain. She says the bag has [...]

  Posted on Feb 20.07 to crafts, friends   

• Slowness on Sunday

  After a great Saturday night welcome-back-to-Portland dinner with our friends (My husband made the Spinach Salad with Blackened Salmon, Orange, and Red Onion recipe from Diane Morgan’s cookbook, Salmon.) we got together for a bike ride around Sauvie Island Sunday morning.
  It was an opportunity for our friends to try out new bikes and an opportunity [...]

  Posted on Feb 12.07 to food, friends, oregon, portland, slowness   

• Hawaiian Monk Seal

  My best friend Susan just returned from a vacation in Maui and sent me an email this morning with some beautiful pictures she made yesterday just before departing for home.

  Here is the Hawaiian monk seal. She’s a beautiful creature and she’s resting on Ka’anapali Beach. According to Susan, this is the first monk seal to [...]

  Posted on Feb 08.07 to animals, friends   

• Festival of the Photograph

  We’re just back from a gathering of friends and photographers at Higgins. It was dubbed a “Going Away” party for our friend, Michael and really, it’s just another way to say, “Let’s get together and have drinks.” Luckily for me, food is usually included (grin).
  Anyhoo — As I’ve mentioned before we spend a lot of [...]

  Posted on Feb 05.07 to friends, photography   

• The pictures that bind

  We spent the weekend with friends and photography.
  Many of our friends are photographers so most of our weekends are spent with friends and photography and what made this weekend unique is the annual Photo Night at Rob and Fran’s house. Spending time with friends from out of town was also a great bonus! They traveled [...]

  Posted on Jan 09.07 to friends, new year, photography