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- Pollination and Propagation – A Painting Series
- 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.
Author Archives: petra
The surface of the water at Moss Bay
Simone had Moss Bay sailing and kayaking camp this week. It must have been quite a workout. Five minutes after getting into the car, Simone was asleep. She was not belted in. She was not even in her seat. We … Continue reading
On Thursday We Were A Circus
Today our itinerary at the Pacific Science Museum begins at the circus exhibit and then moves on to “BiPed Game Show” about our human ancestor, Lucy and what her remains can teach us about BiPedalism. There is a tightrope in … Continue reading
Posted in Events, Family, Friends, Science and Tech
Tagged BiPed Game Show, Family, friends, Naomi, Pacific Science Museum, Science, Simone, Sophie
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Zombie Parade or The sum was far greater than its parts
Fremont put an urgent call out for Zombies to gather for the annual “Red, White and Dead” parade. Fremont gathered 3,894 last year but lost the Guinness world record to England by a wee 132 undead brain eating participants. By … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Events, Family, Friends
Tagged David, Fremont, Gemma, Kaya, Mckinley, Naomi, Red White and Dead parade, Russ Dagatt, Simone, Zombies
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Geocaching or There was Shakespeare at the Troll
Have you done any geocaching? Last week at a wonderful birthday party for Simone’s classmate Meredith, we geo-cached at Richmond Beach and discovered an artillery box full of books. Smitten with the adventure, we decided to create a pop-up small book to … Continue reading
Posted in Adventures, Birthdays, Family, Friends, Naomi, Simone, Smith Tower
Tagged birthday, Family, friends, Geo caching, Kaya, Mckinley, Meredith, Naomi, Petra, Simone
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And besides, they are DISTINCT!
An email just in from my good friend Monica about a conversation between Sophie (6) and Annabel (3) that she overheard: Petra, On the way home from camp today, I heard the following conversation in the backseat: Sophie: “Now I … Continue reading
Birthday at 3700 feet
We flew to the Hampton’s on June 19 which is Simone’s birthday. The flight attendant, Maria, had an idea. Over the intercom, she had the passengers light the candles by pressing the attendant call buttons. Then they sang Happy Birthday … Continue reading
There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man. -Winston Churchill
My good friend Annie Reese (mother of Cora and Liam) invited us to join them for riding lessons at the Willows Edge Farm in Bothell. The riding school has friendly maneless horses called Norwegian Fjords that are perfect for young … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Friends
Tagged Annie Reese, Bothell, Cora, Horse riding lessons, Liam, Naomi, Norwegian Fjords, Simone, Willows Edge Farm
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Greenlake ships.
Simone and Naomi like the big double-wide mothership so they can walk around easily and be pirates. I like the boogie board best, but they have to stay very still or we all get a chilly bath.
Arne’s egg.
What a satisfying chair. Thank you Arne Jacobsen for creating this beautiful lounge. (There is a whisper of Eero Saarinen in here.)
Mazama Migration 2010
Every Spring for a decade, we’ve been migrating north to sunny Mazama around the time of David’s birthday on May 25th. Our tribal gathering place is now Michal Friedrich’s Wesola Polana. You can see the rusty steel “Herd” lined up … Continue reading
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Tagged Adrienne Fairhall, adventures, Annabel, Anselm, birthday, Blaise Aguera y Arcas, David, David Stephneson, Delta Shelter, Eliot, gathering, hiking, John, Kim Turos, Maryanne, Mazama, Mazama hike, Methow Valley, Michal, Michal Friedrich, Monica Stephenson, Naomi, Petra, Rolling Huts, Simone, Sophie, Tom Kundig, treasure hunt, Wesola Polana
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PHOTO FRIDAY
Simone and Naomi climb onto David’s bike at “Wesola Polana” in Mazama. This is one of our favorite vacation spots! The kids love staying in Tom Kundig’s Rolling Huts. Here are more pictures.
Posted in Adventures, Family
Tagged bike riding, David, Mazama hike, Naomi, Simone, Wesola Polana
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Chinese Carving on the Bedroom door
Naomi asked to make a post about these. She looks at them every day and wants to share them. These are scenes from the door to the girl’s bedroom. The story we often hear told is that these Chinese artworks … Continue reading
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Event at Perkins Coie
Joe Ruben with Funding Post asked a few of us in the early stage investing arena to talk about the start-up environment. The event was sponsored by Perkins Coie and held at their downtown Seattle office. Bill McAleer, Managing Director, … Continue reading
Posted in Capital, Events, Gatherings
Tagged Bill Bryant, Funding Post, Joe Ruben, Lucinda Stewart, Perkins Coie, Petra, Vault Capital
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Wiffling the afternoon away
We’re hanging at the Schembre’s house (fairly frequent occurrence) and got the wiffle bat out.
Josie Schembre channeling Josephine Baker & Isadora Duncan
When my daughter Naomi refers to Josie, she says, “My good friend Josie” never just “Josie”. It goes like this. “My good friend Josie likes to build things just like I like to build things” or “Mom did you know … Continue reading