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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
Boardman Lake
Lined up for a bowl of warm oatmeal. Simone, Kaya, McKinley, Liam. Simone and Cora after the first night at Boardman lake. Troopers, Naomi and Simone, hiking in.
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Tagged adventures, Boardman Lake, Cora, Family, friends, hiking, Kaya, Mckinley, Naomi, Simone
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Annual Summer Sail
To be at sea.
Mazama hike with Ben and Margit and Naomi
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Tagged Ben, hiking, Margit, Mazama hike, Naomi
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Brody’s brother arrives for tea party with Simone
Simone and Naomi are good friend’s with Brody and love to visit with him in Sun Valley. Brody invited Simone over for a tea party and he made mint tea and cookies. He had it all planned out. There was … Continue reading
Her medium is gnarly. She works “in” plants.
Do you know any artists whose medium is plants? Kim Turos, who recently moved to Seattle, works in a vernacular of organic media. Gnarly old roots hang from the 70 foot ceiling of her warehouse studio. They look like grand … Continue reading
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Tagged Industrial Catheral, Kim Turos, Plants, The Arts
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Take Your Time – Olafur Eliasson & Who’s afraid of Jasper Johns at Tony Shafrazi
Simone and Naomi visited the exhibit of Danish Iceland artist Olafur Eliasson at MOMA. There was a smoky room, a foggy room, a round room that changed colors, and finally, a room of boxy mirrors. Large rooms. Naomi and Simone … Continue reading
Posted in Family, The Arts
Tagged Family, Lawrimore Project, Naomi, Olafur Eliasson, Robert Therrien, Simone, Susan Robb, The Arts, Tony Shafrazi
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Fishing at twin ponds on crazy hair day at Evergreen School
Simone’s Pre-School class made fishing poles and today they added hooks and sinkers, squirmy live worms (or bright salmon eggs) and went fishing at twin ponds. The beautiful ponds are a short hike from the school. The weeping willows along … Continue reading
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Tagged Crazy Hair Day, Evergreen School, Family, Fishing, friends, Simone, Twin Ponds
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Home Depot or Cart Etiquette
We hardly ever seem to be able to obey the proper cart etiquette. The girl enjoying themselves in the cart at Home Depot. They love building projects. At least for the fist 10 minutes. Naomi gets sidetracked with play tools … Continue reading
Susan Robb does the Lawrimore Project
Have you ever toasted marshmallows at an art gallery? When Naomi and Simone walked into the Lawrimore Project, they discovered a fire burning in the middle of the floor. Scott Lawrimore was showing a Susan Robb exhibit called “The Challenge That Nature Provides.” Methane fuels The Digester’s … Continue reading
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You Complete Me
If you look at the window behind Simone you will see, in the lower right, the seam for the door to the Western Bridge museum. Bill & Ruth True created the Western Bridge in 2004 to exhibit contemporary art. It … Continue reading
The manufacturing of controversy about Evolution!
I like this article by Valerie Tarico about the manufacturing of controversy about evolution! The article points out that we have seen this insane manufacturing of controversy (manufactroversy) in the past. “The fact is, there is no scientific controversy about … Continue reading
Posted in Ideology, Mavericks, Science and Tech
Tagged controversy, evolution, Paul Abrams, Science, Valerie Tarico
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David and Naomi after work
It is 5:45pm on a gorgeous day. Simone, Naomi and I are in the Chinese Room. Simone is finishing her afternoon nap in the double wide stroller. We have circumnavigated Seattle’s business district with stops at the library, Sculpture park … Continue reading
The tribe aflight or Zander, Scott, David, Eric and Stefan leap together
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Tagged David, Eric, friends, Scott, Stefan Hampden, tribe aflight, Zander
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Double-wide jaunt through urban landscape
We left the house in the double wide stroller. Simone was working in her easy erase writing book sent from Grandma Patt. Simone was also in charge of documenting this particular afternoon romp with her camera. She pointed out that … Continue reading
Treasure Trails Nordic Snow day!
Saturday was a fun SNOW day!!! Simone takes the Treasure Trails Nordic ski class at Snoqualmie Pass while David and I alternate skate skiing the loop and watching Naomi. Our friends Eli and Karel turned us on to the kids … Continue reading
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Tagged 7 SINS, adventures, David, James Judd, Naomi, Petra, Simone, Ski lessons, Snoqualmie Pass, Treasure Trails
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Kidspace and The Getty Museum
On Wednesday, Simone said, “I miss Tanner and Kendall.” Tanner lives in Idaho and we haven’t seen her in many months. Kendall lives in Los Angeles but we haven’t seen her in over a year so I was surprised to … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Friends, The Arts, Travels
Tagged Kidspace Museum, Los Angeles, Naomi, Petra, Simone, The Getty Museum, Travels
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Simone and Naomi concerto
We’re in Los Angeles for a couple days. Wednesday we happened upon Frank Gehry’s Walt Disney Concert Hall. We were aiming for MOCA (Museum of Contemporary Art) across the street but discovered it is closed on Wednesdays in the winter. … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Travels
Tagged Frank Gehry, Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, Naomi, Simone, Walt Disney Hall
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