the healing power of lego bricks.
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Thursday, July 23, 2009
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Garden Pics
I've been way too busy (for thankfully good reasons: stellar sales at market, and social endeavors in free time) to get in the garden much over the last four weeks. But it's holding out on it's own for now.
I haven't taken great pictures of it for awhile, but I thought I would post some anyway. Just as filler. :)
Camelot Foxglove being healthy:
Mahonia Repens (Creeping Barberry aka Oregon Grape) - it has little yellow cupped flowers in the spring and these little berries in the summer. They are actually edible. I'm waiting for them to turn ripe, but supposedly they will have a very sour taste that is best mixed with other fruits in a jelly. It will produce only enough this season to have a sample taste.
Hollywood Plums, getting bigger. I don't know how long I have to wait now.
I've kept portions of the grass long, and it has turned a crisp dry tan (as grasses do and I love). It provides great habitat for all kinds of little creatures which makes me happy. In the center of this picture is a little blue dragonfly.
Another creature who lives in tall grasses:
This picture shows the first portion of the garden I planted when I moved in. It is not the best organized and I will probably this fall start to rearrange and even split some plants to fill out other areas. But it makes me happy to have a more or less maturing area of the garden.
The orange red flowers are Lucifer Crocosmia, the little yellows dots of flowers are Moonbeam Coreopsis, less noticeable but still there is a Salvia, the Agapanthis I thought froze, some Purple Coneflower Echinacea, and more.
I have a Vintage Wine Echinacea I'm still waiting to bloom.
All be well.
I haven't taken great pictures of it for awhile, but I thought I would post some anyway. Just as filler. :)
Camelot Foxglove being healthy:
Mahonia Repens (Creeping Barberry aka Oregon Grape) - it has little yellow cupped flowers in the spring and these little berries in the summer. They are actually edible. I'm waiting for them to turn ripe, but supposedly they will have a very sour taste that is best mixed with other fruits in a jelly. It will produce only enough this season to have a sample taste.
Hollywood Plums, getting bigger. I don't know how long I have to wait now.
I've kept portions of the grass long, and it has turned a crisp dry tan (as grasses do and I love). It provides great habitat for all kinds of little creatures which makes me happy. In the center of this picture is a little blue dragonfly.
Another creature who lives in tall grasses:
This picture shows the first portion of the garden I planted when I moved in. It is not the best organized and I will probably this fall start to rearrange and even split some plants to fill out other areas. But it makes me happy to have a more or less maturing area of the garden.
The orange red flowers are Lucifer Crocosmia, the little yellows dots of flowers are Moonbeam Coreopsis, less noticeable but still there is a Salvia, the Agapanthis I thought froze, some Purple Coneflower Echinacea, and more.
I have a Vintage Wine Echinacea I'm still waiting to bloom.
All be well.
Monday, July 20, 2009
Reality joke
A midget clown walked into my booth this weekend...
That's it, no punchline. It really happened.
That's it, no punchline. It really happened.
Monday, July 13, 2009
The things you just can't make up...
So I met this guy at the market this weekend. It will sound like I'm making fun of him, but in all honesty, he was pretty damn cool.
His name is Atamdev. It means 'something' rejuvenation of soul and 'something'. It was given to him by his Yogi brethren at a 6 week meditation retreat this winter. He is originally from Mexico City but lives up in the mountains of Canada. He is in Portland because there was a bus of kids coming down here and he thought he might tag along. The bus has gone back, but he is living with a relative of the bus driver so that he might check out Portland for longer.
He is a performance artist whose work is mostly focused on gender and sex roles. Specifically how what it was to be a man in the 1950's is different from a man in the 1990's and 1500's and so on.
He is the type of artist who paints but is not a painter, sculpts without being a sculptor, and dances because its simply refined movement.
He wanted to buy one of my pins to wear it in his hair like a barrette. I don't know how.
He knew I was a Pisces without really asking and asked me if I knew the Pisces hand shake. I laughed at him and said I didn't know there was a secret club hand shake, but the other customer in my booth put me in my place by speaking over her shoulder saying that she knew the secret Taurus hand shake.
I talked with this fascinating guy for about an hour total, but in two installments with a ten minute break where on the second visit he had a different shirt on and a different pair of sunglasses.
He had one of those gazes that had no issues looking you directly in the eyes at all times, except for when he closed them to try to remember the name of the artist who painted with chocolate.
He kept looking at his watch like he obviously had somewhere to go, but would then look at me with one of those completely open souled meditation glossed over stares and decide not to go anywhere. He was supposed to be on his way to a B/W gender film festival of some sort but also had an original Star Trek episode reproduction performance in a park that evening which he invited me to.
I told him I had something else going on, which I truthfully did, and he eventually left, but only after he got a hug.
It crossed my mind that he might have been high, but truly, it was only on spirit.
His name is Atamdev. It means 'something' rejuvenation of soul and 'something'. It was given to him by his Yogi brethren at a 6 week meditation retreat this winter. He is originally from Mexico City but lives up in the mountains of Canada. He is in Portland because there was a bus of kids coming down here and he thought he might tag along. The bus has gone back, but he is living with a relative of the bus driver so that he might check out Portland for longer.
He is a performance artist whose work is mostly focused on gender and sex roles. Specifically how what it was to be a man in the 1950's is different from a man in the 1990's and 1500's and so on.
He is the type of artist who paints but is not a painter, sculpts without being a sculptor, and dances because its simply refined movement.
He wanted to buy one of my pins to wear it in his hair like a barrette. I don't know how.
He knew I was a Pisces without really asking and asked me if I knew the Pisces hand shake. I laughed at him and said I didn't know there was a secret club hand shake, but the other customer in my booth put me in my place by speaking over her shoulder saying that she knew the secret Taurus hand shake.
I talked with this fascinating guy for about an hour total, but in two installments with a ten minute break where on the second visit he had a different shirt on and a different pair of sunglasses.
He had one of those gazes that had no issues looking you directly in the eyes at all times, except for when he closed them to try to remember the name of the artist who painted with chocolate.
He kept looking at his watch like he obviously had somewhere to go, but would then look at me with one of those completely open souled meditation glossed over stares and decide not to go anywhere. He was supposed to be on his way to a B/W gender film festival of some sort but also had an original Star Trek episode reproduction performance in a park that evening which he invited me to.
I told him I had something else going on, which I truthfully did, and he eventually left, but only after he got a hug.
It crossed my mind that he might have been high, but truly, it was only on spirit.
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Pictures of Greyson
I was sneaking around the Perry family's Flickr page and thought I'd share a couple pics of my Godson Greyson Alden Perry!
So cute.
Yay! so happy to see him using them! Sorry if it's only to make noise thus far, but I'm sure he'll become a little architect soon enough.
So cute.
Yay! so happy to see him using them! Sorry if it's only to make noise thus far, but I'm sure he'll become a little architect soon enough.
Friday, July 3, 2009
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