New Blog Banner (It Smells Like Home)

It’s summer. I was tired of looking at the misty autumn river scene on my banner. So I edited in my favorite view in the whole world. It’s a bit grainy, but I don’t mind.
The pier on the left is our family pier. It’s fairly new, 10 years or so. My grandfather built the original [...]

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Typing The Afternoon Tea

I’ve been working on my cards for Dahlila. They’re fun but they aren’t photographing well. They don’t pop–but then they are typed, HAND typed on an old Olympia manual. The fun is fading, as is the ink ribbon. My fingers hurt and I don’t think the antiquity of it all is appreciated, really. The computer [...]

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Here Comes the Sun…

It’s finally Monday. I almost feel relieved. Long complicated family weekend. Exhausted. But the sun is out! The SUN! (we have not seen it truly out, in a blue sky for many days. . . this is California. We need that.) So no time to chat right now. Zephyr and i both desperately need a [...]

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