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Day: March 20, 2006

  • Columbia River 1991, at Richland

    This is a view of the Columbia River from the riverside park at Richland, March 1991. And that’s me. It was bright blue skies and sun shining only a few minutes beforehand. A dust storm was riding in. Weather can change very quickly there. This is an “I’m standing in front of the Columbia River…

  • Old postcard of Columbia River

    Old postcard of the Columbia River. Reads, Columbia river separating Oregon and Washington. Scene shows vista house at Crown Point with express highway and Mighty Columbia River. No date. Extremely faded. Didn’t toy with it much, just bringing out a few colors. Didn’t see any point laboring over major color adjustments. For comparison, here are…

  • Zurama dressing room

    Zurama dressing room

    While working on cleaning, sorting, cleaning last night, came upon a polaroid, just a few years shy of being 20 years old,of a painting I did of a theater dressing room. Very faded. I brought out the colors a bit. Grainy. Very loosely pictured are Irv Wardlow (left), Lane Whittemore, Ross Miekle (far background) and…

  • Pretend I’m BoingBoing or something

    A few posts ago I was grumbling over people forcing their progeny to make napkin rings out of cardboard toilet paper holders, or at least deluding them into thinking it was a good thing… When instead they could be making finger puppets! Like H.o.p. did this past summer. His own idea. Cut the toilet paper…

  • We like Neo-Kaiju

    H.o.p. fell for the Neo-Kaiju Treebird by artist Kathy Staico-Schorr. We attempted to order it through Wootini which is where we first saw it. Pretty cool website adds to anticipating something good but H.o.p. would have liked Treebird regardless. He also liked a number of other toys but Treebird was the right price. Here’s a…