I wish

I could have found video to post of this steamy and brilliant tango!

Today

we stayed in Kingston last night and came home via Bainbridge this sunny (finally!) morning:

and ate at the Streamliner Diner

and sniffed teas at Churchmouse Yarns & Teas.

Happy Birthday Luke!!

LOVE YOU...happy birthday!! This is a poladroid of a polaroid! I know, I've posted this before, but we are so cute!

Ladies Room

soap catcher at the Tacoma Glass Museum.

Sneaking

iPhone fotos at the museum! I loved this one.

Oh kids

Photo Olivier Zahm....http://www.purple-diary.com/ .

Ashlee!

While following Gayla's link on her photoblog for graphic artist Lynda Barry, I discovered that Linda went to Evergreen! And she gave a talk about her teacher there...named Marilyn Frasca. Did you have her as a teacher too? Here is a sweet video Marilyn made that I thought you would enjoy.

Happy Spring!

I remembered

to use the parmesan rind I had in the fridge!

Pretty

Shadows

Chihuly glass chandeliers

make pretty shadows.

Shedding tears for Battlestar:

Battlestar Gallactica at the United Nations?

Watching

This video on Ted talks by Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love. It's about 20 minutes long.

Fun

"Jackson Pollock by Miltos Manetas" for iPhone from Memo Akten on Vimeo.

or just go to www.jacksonpollock.org to paint.

Simple

in food and dress, too. She wears DOSA alot. Here's a video of Alice on 60 Minutes...thanks, Fran and Hannah!

Learning

new things: Rothko...mentioned here.

Sunday snow

Inspiration

on the sidewalk.

You Are an Ingrid!

You are an Ingrid -- "I am unique" Ingrids have sensitive feelings and are warm and perceptive. Take the test here...it's really short!

Quotes I ran into today:

One inspiring:
"Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening." -Coco Chanel

One funny:
"Comfort has its place, but it seems rude to visit another country dressed as if you've come to mow its lawns." - - Me Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris, 2000 - -

More

interesting summer shoes.

Layered

with a "squirrel hat". Love the blue boots.

Photo from The Sartorialist.

Reading

This arrived today! Molly's blog is called Orangette.

Leftovers

make a great salad...roasted tomatoes, steak, yams, white beans, arugula.

Ladies Room

we finally hung it up! Thank you!

Hey Mom

you might enjoy this...a website called Birdsong ...you can stream the sound of live birds :)!

Roasted

tomatoes, slowly, at 275, for 2 plus hours. Delicious! The Amateur Gourmet has a different recipe for it that looks very good too.

A variation

on our old standby: rice and beans!

Daffy

Tilda:

more appreciators of her style here and here. She goes her own way in life too apparently. I could have used you as a role model, about 17 years ago, if only you were older than me...she's a communist too, Adam! :)

Reading

this article in the NY times today (thanks ashlee) about mindfulness had this old story come to mind: Akido in Action: Doing combat with the essence of love by Terry Dobson. I was happy to find it easily on Google...did I find it in this magazine in 1983? I'm not sure, it was a long time ago, but I remember reading it changed my life. The NY times article talks about the pitfalls of mindfulness in a humorous way. What Terry's story illustrates is that mindfulness is merely the open door for love to enter...and that it's love, the demonstration of love, the embodiment of love, that heals. I hope it's a true story...thanks Terry. Photo is from http://www.terrydobson.com/

Top Pot

iPhone photos.

This morning

warm bed

cold rain.

Windows

on the way downtown yesterday morning: at the Paramount...lovely peeling patina on the radiator.

and this is the grate below the window.

Funny trees for sale at Flora and Henri's. They are closing that location.

Springy

today.

Interesting

summer

shoes.