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
Happy Birthday!
We may look happy, but it is our last dinner together before moving day, which is TODAY.
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.
New Linens
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!
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.
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!!!
Sandhill Cranes
Watching it snow
My new bracelets from the museum sale table
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.
new carpet
lunch at The Range: delicious conversation and food
an afternoon at our Albuquerque Museum
the opera dinner
Eddy and Ed
Don draws a dog in my copy of his new book.
Do these socks go?
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.
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
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.
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.
One too many margaritas on our birthdays
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.
My blog-life from 2006 - 2016 is over here !
