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- Pollination and Propagation
- Windows that open
- Are there people inside the camera?
- Gallery
- What are you reading?
- Creation and Re-creation
- Favorite Restaurants
- MUSEE de la CHASSE et de la NATURE
- Handstand anyone? Cupcake with Sprinkles?
- Wallingford Greenway opens with a Kidical Mass Gathering
- A June day
- Surfing on her birthday
- Amber and Todd and baby Parker!
- April Fool’s Day Pranks
- Jumping into the pool
- Being four
- The new series of jewelry is selling at the SAM Store
- Howling the night away
- White blanket for the skyscrapers
- Making Friends with Every Gecko in Belize
- We were looking for Santas and found Do Ho Suh’s Gate!
- Living past 100… actively
- Homework in the Globe
- One way to work with fractions.
- Tickle Time
- Have you ever had to walk uphill all night to get to a bunny in trouble?
- Sunny reading
- “To play without passion is inexcusable” or Rascal and the Minnie Bergman’s Park.
- Inspiration is for Amateurs or The Olympic Sculpture Park
- When was the last time you hung out under the surface?
- Sleeping model
- Sand and water
- Being Plumb
- Three Plumb earrings
- Naomi at Catherine and Mike’s wedding
- The dream just floats up into her head.
- Two sisters outfit their digs and enjoy the design mishaps
- Chocolate Cake
- Jeanne gives us a gardening tip and Elinor visits.
- Bang Bang at Camp Casey
- The first-grade book club
- Chalking it up on the front porch
- He said, “Nobody gets out of here alive.”
- Crazy hair day at Evergreen
- Naomi’s party
- “You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.” or How many times have you been married …to the same person?
- A Furry Hammer met us on the sidewalk. Hello Nick Cave!
- Did your school teach insatiable desire, focus and the art of persuasion? Sir Ken Robinson & Seth Godin pipe in on what we should and should not be teaching.
- Naomi’s birthday is just around the corner.
- Selling pigs off a bike
- Simone’s book club
- The importance of vulnerability
- Easter 2011
- The Artist Toolbox – NOW for Season Two!
- Why they were saying among themselves that it cannot be done, it was done.
- The Artist Toolbox
- Carrying the world on your shoulders?
- IndieFlix
- The floating bakery
- Which moments do you remember?
- Naomi tells the story of Rosa Parks
- Half the Sky is both a brutal awakening and an unmistakable call to action. -Melinda Gates
- Bringing Science to Science Fiction
- A half century of kids playing with Circuitry
- Simone’s take on Dolphins
- How to have a lovely birthday.
- Are you stuffy? or The cost of Consumerism
- A sheet holding confetti and balloons
- Simone’s on the cover of Life Magazine in Shanghai
- They are so much fun!
- Airport Santa
- What is Santa’s favorite midnight snack?
- A party about stories
- Santa stopped by the tower.
- Round and round
- Ten Favorite toys!
- 14 GREAT Children’s books (7 for a 3 year old and 7 for a 6 year old)
- Violin
- Storytelling gathering for the holidays
- Kevin is making it safe to Gulp it down
- Massive art involving tens of thousands of individuals and best seen, in many cases, from outer space.
- Snow day or Ahhh L-I-F-E
- Are you honing in on the virtues or letting them slide? Honestly?
- "Failure is Impossible"
- A global beginning to the day
- Naomi’s KOMO tour of the Tower or “What was on the cutting room floor?”
- Art is never chaste.
- 115 "area ways" below the streets of Pioneer Square
- Hillary does Pier 30
- First time
- "Please Vote!" or Clinton’s in Town
- Mieraye, Obama and Murray or the President comes to town.
- Java with Senator Patty Murray and President Obama
- Making a Home in a Pyramid, 462 Feet Above Seattle
- Ending nuclear proliferation
- Making body parts and firing madly!
- Brunch with Margit, Ben, Sarah, Rob and Pascal or Hot Lava
- Simone’s laptop
- Why are you smilin’ like a rabbit in a briarpatch?
- You’re just jealous cause the voices only talk to me or "Pumpkin Head"
- A One Nation Sunday
- Instead of Driver’s Education, Children attend Biker’s Education
- Hot Lava
- Naomi at work
- Venture Capital Panel at Bell Harbor or "Due Diligence Live"
- Naomi & Annabel on their First Day at Evergreen School
- Claudette & Susan do Seattle
- Boogie All Day Long
- Monica, David, Sophie & Annabel come over.
- Seattle Center …our extended yard…
- Baby Pia
- Enjoy KT Niehoff’s “Relatively Real” from 2005
- wing span
- rock n roll camp
- Deluged in Seattle
- A Garage Sale detour enroute to the Reptile Zoo
- Occidental Market
- Ballard Commons
- Mama Mia
- Circumnavigating 100 feet from home court
- Limb to Limb
- The surface of the water at Moss Bay
- On Thursday We Were A Circus
- Zombie Parade or The sum was far greater than its parts
- Geocaching or There was Shakespeare at the Troll
- And besides, they are DISTINCT!
- How we ended up in the Smith Tower lighthouse?
- Birthday at 3700 feet
- There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man. -Winston Churchill
- Greenlake ships.
- Abbey Road
- Leaping McKinley
- Arne’s egg.
- Mazama Migration 2010
- PHOTO FRIDAY
- Grandma Elinor and Naomi
- Chinese Carving on the Bedroom door
- Event at Perkins Coie
- Heating Up
- Wiffling the afternoon away
- Josie Schembre channeling Josephine Baker & Isadora Duncan
- Nomadic kids
- Antigua back yard
- Pioneer schmoozing
- Merging collective experiences – AR from Blaise
- Daily Rituals or Off to School
- Dinner with the Strains across the Square
- Yelling at the TV
- Holiday 2009 or slinky on the hotel stairs
- Sweet and HORRIFYING! or A Whirling Deverish Halloween
- Elinor and Naomi enjoying the day.
- Pausing at Rhoad’s End
- Rhoads’ catch
- Gritty Oasis in Seattle or Beaching in Seattle
- Ferry on over to Vashon Island
- Knighted by chivalrous iron-clad warriors in Gasworks Park
- Therese and Dale and Serra
- The BIG DIG Treasure Hunt or Simone’s 5th or Great Traditions
- Naomi and paint
- Santa stopped by the tower a week early
- Jewel in the Oval Office (Sally Jewel)
- Boardman Lake
- Boardman Lake
- Annual Summer Sail
- Sailing
- Mazama hike with Ben and Margit and Naomi
- Brody’s brother arrives for tea party with Simone
- Her medium is gnarly. She works “in” plants.
- Take Your Time – Olafur Eliasson & Who’s afraid of Jasper Johns at Tony Shafrazi
- Fishing at twin ponds on crazy hair day at Evergreen School
- Home Depot or Cart Etiquette
- Susan Robb does the Lawrimore Project
- You Complete Me
- The manufacturing of controversy about Evolution!
- David and Naomi after work
- Legislation Trumps Jurisprudence “Deciphering the Siberian Wolf Code”
- The tribe aflight or Zander, Scott, David, Eric and Stefan leap together
- Double-wide jaunt through urban landscape
- Treasure Trails Nordic Snow day!
- Kidspace and The Getty Museum
- Simone and Naomi concerto
- Vitamin D
- Slithering or Rhoads’ End or Ahoy Mateys! or Sunset Boggie
- The Gorgeous Power of Seadragon
- Margit and Naomi meet
- Welcome Naomi!
- Terminal socializing
- Jessica, Blaine, Lucinda and Arno come over for dinner
- A Citizen of the United States!
- Wilfred and Elinor visit us in Sun Valley
- Simone sounds out
- Knocked up and low on carabiners or Enjoying Zion
- Saying I do.
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Living past 100… actively
100 year old Fauja Singh finishing the Toronto Marathon! More about his race on pinterest.
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Homework in the Globe
Naomi and I kept Simone company while she did her homework. She graphed the number of fireboats, ferries, rooftop satellite dishes, buses, pink cars, horse-drawn carriages and bicycle carriages and calculated the “range.” Then she drew a detailed picture of … Continue reading
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One way to work with fractions.
Naomi has been decorating with fractions. I saw one that had fallen out and put it in and she, clearly horrified, pulled it right back out again saying, “That doesn’t go there. See the pattern. That one goes here.” “Green, … Continue reading
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Tickle Time
There are quite a few tickle times. There is the bedtime tickle time, the elevator tickle time and the Chinese Room tickle time. Meseret is helping out with the Chinese Room tickle-time.
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Have you ever had to walk uphill all night to get to a bunny in trouble?
Hard to resist doing our reading outside on evenings like these. Naomi and Simone grabbed one of our favorite books, The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes. Written by DuBose Heyward and illustrated by Majorie Flack. Country Bunny wants to … Continue reading
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Sunny reading
Hard to resist reading outside on a day like this!
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“To play without passion is inexcusable” or Rascal and the Minnie Bergman’s Park.
Naomi has Rascal for the weekend. Rascal is the PK classroom mascot. Each weekend a student gets to take him home and show him their world. We’re asked to document our adventures with Rascal for his journal. We can draw … Continue reading
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Inspiration is for Amateurs or The Olympic Sculpture Park
When was the last time you launched? Naomi found this sand bag game board at the Olympic Sculpture Park. I tried it too. They had spring and getting air is as good now as when I was ten. Inside the … Continue reading
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When was the last time you hung out under the surface?
Would you believe Scott brought diving gear to the pool at the office/house we rent in Shoreline? It was a blast! Simone and Liam shared a tank of compressed air and disappeared to the bottom of the pool. I was taken … Continue reading
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Sleeping model
This morning, while David was sleeping, Naomi drew him. Her model stirred and opened his eyes at one point and she, intently studying his face, said, “Stay still, I’m trying to draw your mouth.” A minute later she asked, “How … Continue reading
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Sand and water
We just came back from four tribal days with friends in Port Townsend. Leaving urbanity, Simone says, “The pointy tower is shrinking away.” Suddenly I am thinking about the rock climbing tent we’ll be sleeping in for the next four … Continue reading
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Being Plumb
In the middle of closing the funding for the second season of The Artist Toolbox, I started making jewelry. It hit me hard. Suddenly I was buying boxes of fresh water pearls and sorting them and then I was welding … Continue reading
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Three Plumb earrings
There are three styles of earrings. All are $80. Above is a double tier. These are a triple tier. I wear these quite often. These are single tier and the copper pearl hangs from a hammered post.
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Naomi at Catherine and Mike’s wedding
Naomi making art at Catherine and Mike’s wedding at Golden Gardens.
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The dream just floats up into her head.
Sophie was telling me that to help her go to sleep she made a dozen or so small drawings of the things she likes to think about. Then she put them in an envelope by her bed. Each night she … Continue reading
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Two sisters outfit their digs and enjoy the design mishaps
We were picking up a birthday present for a classmate of Simone’s at Pottery Barn when the girls spotted this bunkbed. We measured twice and measured again and though it would be really tight, we decided to order it and … Continue reading
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Chocolate Cake
Chocolate Cake 3 dl sugar 1 1/2 dl flour 2 tea spoons of vanilla sugar 1/2 teaspoon salt 4 tablespoons of cacao 150 g melted butter 2 eggs Mix dry ingredients. Pour in the melted butter and eggs. Fill … Continue reading
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Jeanne gives us a gardening tip and Elinor visits.
Jeanne stopped by the Tower and helped us plant our roof-top garden. Local law enforcement stopped by and was generous with the sticky sherif badges. Jeanne’s wisdom: Turns out that when you pop out the starter tomato plant to move … Continue reading
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Bang Bang at Camp Casey
Each year at Evergreen School involves a retreat culminating in the 8th grade with a month in Vietnam. This year Simone’s class did two days at Camp Casey. Constructing forts on the beach to watch for Orcas. Head adornments followed … Continue reading
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