Summer

“You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To" Allison Davis Trio

Thanks for the warning, Aggles!

Albuquerque Museum Route 66 Show. Kids’ drawings were the best.

On the balcony of Hotel Andaluz. Before Tom and I arrived, Mark had arranged to have a portable air conditioner set up near our table!

My favorite drink

Ingredients:

1. Fizzy water

2. Fever-Tree Ginger Beer (No substitutes, and no fancy flavors of Fever-Tree.)

3. A dry sparkling wine. I use Gruet Brut, which is made here in New Mexico. Just make sure whatever you use isn’t too sweet or too oaky.

Fill a glass with ice.

Start with fizzy water and fill 1/3 full. 

Then add ginger beer and fill up to the 2/3’s mark.

Next add your dry sparkling wine until the glass is full.

Maybe one drop of lime.

Don’t stir. This is a layered drink. As you drink it, top it off with sparkling wine every so often.

Spring

Hello Netherlands, Goodbye USA

new shoes for spring

Shopping in Duran’s Drugstore

We miss Gail, who’s in Denver.

But she’s coming back home tomorrow.

 

back to the opera

 

posters for FOG…

and what I see when I hang up the phone and look down at my pad of paper

 

Dorene in the Dolomites

Jared and the Chachalakas @ Town & Ranch

Happy Birthday!

We may look happy, but it is our last dinner together before moving day, which is TODAY.

Winter

David and Linda’s annual compound lighting

Anne’s  Shifting Winds  oil on canvas, 20 x 16, 2025

Oh. My. God! LOVE stamps designed by my friend James Yang. (I’ve decided he’s my friend now, after hating him for 20 years!!!)

a recent painting by Anne Marguerite

Discovered: Chocolate Cartel across town. 90% is best.

no crib for a bed

What do you think of Gourmet’s new logo?

After Aida

Fall

New Linens

 

Summer

Behind Bike-In- Coffee

Eddy loves to lie with her paws in the tracks.

Kathy Chilton, Albuquerque Captain of Getting Children’s Books into the Hands of Kids Who Need Them

More friends who write books: you know Don Zancanella, and that’s Bruce Noll, poet, in the center

K-Mo comes to town.

Los Poblanos

More friends who write books. Gail, above, wrote the book below on the left (among others). Her daughter wrote the book on the right. Two weeks from now they’ll both be speaking at a conference called Creativity and Madness in Santa Fe.

 

And Jane Austen wrote the book above. Thanks, NY Times, for spoiling the ending for me!

Birthdays and Anniversaries

Tom’s Birthday: Breakfast at Campo

A mysterious bouquet

I’m devouring this book.

Moonstone rings for Barbara and me.

Why do I love this? It came inside the pink toolbox.

Anne always sends a little piece of art with my check.

Blue corn white wheat pancakes

On my birthday we went to the movie theater to see the Met’s live broadcast of Barber of Seville.

My birthday present

The poster I designed for FOG’s 10th Anniversary. This means I’ve been working with FOG (Anne’s gallery) for 10 years!

Available July 23

Spring?

CAT BURGLAR! In December we picked up a UPS package for David when he was out of town. By the time he came back, the package was nowhere to be found. We turned the house upside down. Last week when we were cleaning out all the cat toys from under the couch, look what we found. Eddy had played with it and hidden it way back under the couch. She still thought it was hers and did not want us to give it to David.

I had been using a 15 year-old headshot! Jacqui Otoño took a new one for me. It was slightly windy, as you can see at left.

Making art at our museum.

A great app that helps those of us with phone phobia be in touch with our Senators and Representatives.

A good book.

Have you seen these beautiful stamps? I love them so much that I sent them to my two favorite fisher-persons.

A card from Anne Marguerite.

More wonderful stamps. I think I came to this party too late. They would have made such perfect Christmas stamps.

 

Oh. My. Gosh. Goodnight Moon stamps. Available now!!!

A tour of the UNM campus by Professor Don––but first, brunch at The Grove.

Spring posters for FOG

January

Sandhill Cranes

Watching it snow

My new bracelets from the museum sale table

December

Ready to hang stars out front with David.

We discovered a cat-proof Christmas tree.

Neighbors we ran into on our Christmas Day walk. That’s Qunicy and her dog, Xena Warrior Princess over there on the right. This is Lauren above (right) with her friend from Puerto Rico. Tom gave me 2 gift certificates for appointments with Lauren, Bodyworker Extraordinaire.

When I see Quincy I always ask her what she’s reading. This time she gushed over Jon Fosse’s Septology and Ali Smith’s How To Be Both. Oh. My. God. I downloaded Septology and discovered that it’s comprised of one long sentence that runs through seven volumes.

I’ve become a regular at Chatter.

Happy New Year! We celebrated with Gruet, pistachios, and whipped cream from a can.

November

new carpet

lunch at The Range: delicious conversation and food

Anne Marguerite’s View From the Other Side

an afternoon at our Albuquerque Museum

October

poster for Anne‘s show

Barbara catches Comet Tsuchinshan on her iPhone!

celebrating at Duran’s

the opera dinner

Eddy and Ed

Don draws a dog in my copy of his new book.

Do these socks go?

September

Our favorite Mexican restaurant: La Guelagetza

We love Abby Maxwell.

TV Series of the month

She sang at Nexxus. Dorene danced with me.

Book of the Month

Sisterly love

Ed claims the grass patch.

August

Anne's Owlet (detail)

Mr. Doubt does the squats

Garbage

Margy's show

Don's book came out.

a good book

Recycling

Milagro Vineyards

Milagro loves dogs ...

especially Bostons

on sale at Costco for $199

some rain

Anne's new website ! Designed by Linda D.

arms, legs, and tails

July

Our (part time) next door neighbors were here for the whole month! Don’s book, Animals of the Alpine Front, will come out on August 20.

June

Eddie and Ed, two sisters who moved in with us on June 30

Tom at New Mexico Museum of Art-Vladem Contemporary

a handsome gentleman

Deb, me, Eric, Tom

Tom and Deb

Bill, Sue, me, Tom waiting for the train

My poster for Anne's gallery

Sam now and then.

May

One too many margaritas on our birthdays

April

Painting by Paige Smith-Wyatt (the Coralles Art Studio Tour)

Looking forward to the opera in my new sneakers

Out for a stroll at Los Poblanos

In case you ever wondered what a peacock looks like from behind.

Juan Wijngaard’s studio on the Corrales Art Studio Tour.