Continue Reading Join me for a walk One of the nicest things someone recently said to me – indeed it registered great pleasure – was that I was a…
Continue Reading Hamburg It was 15 years ago almost to the day that I saw my father for the last time. We spent his 80th…
Continue Reading Travel woes Pictures from this morning. Lesson learned – never ever book with some Internet provider who you have never heard of. The cost of…
Continue Reading Referencing Tilden/Giorgio de Chirico This week will be governed by the fact that I am leaving for a funeral in Germany. I will write…
Continue Reading Prickly Things Für S. “I had to get out of Los Angeles,” said Quinn, a poetic songwriter who describes his sound as a cowboy waltz vibe…
Continue Reading Death Valley We started the week with landscapes in the State of Washington. From there we went South to the Columbia River, then further…
Continue Reading Harney County, Eastern Oregon Malheur lies in the furthest south/east corner of our state. Before this part of Oregon became infamous through the occupation of the right…
Continue Reading Painting the Columbia River Sometimes the painters are more interesting than their paintings. Take George Gibbs, for example, who was an ethnographer, mapmaker, geologist, historian, attorney,…
Continue Reading Landscapes Last week I took a ferry from Seattle to Bainbridge Island with the plan to visit Bloedel Gardens. When we arrived at the harbor…
Continue Reading St. Patrick’s Day Yesterday afternoon the entire cityscape of Seattle seemed to be taking on a greenish hue in anticipation of St. Patrick’s Day. I decided…
