Post-Thanksgiving
It's been a particularly busy couple of months, chez Roswell. Immediately after closing "Pardon My Invasion," which was a great success with audiences, Kyle and I hopped on a plane bound for the Northwest, where we've managed to have Thanksgiving dinner every other year since just after we met. We both happened to have close friends living in Portland and Seattle and have now adopted both sets as our family away from family. It's always far too short though, espcially as we're splitting three or four days between the two cities and trying to cram two years' worth of catch-up into them. This means that we fail at seeing new friends we've met in our travels, and the Northwest seems to be filled with interesting, delightful people who deserve a separate trip of their own.
In any case, we arrived in Portland on Thanksgiving Day and met up with our friends, Roger and Carolee, who made a fantastic dinner and then transported it all to the home of Lee Moyer, artist extraordinaire, who lives in an amazing Arts and Crafts home filled with wood detailing and built in china cupboards and Art Deco light fixtures. I could have eaten all that wood quite happily in its butterscotch splendor. Beautiful. After Carolee rushed Lee to the hospital to have his wrist and hand looked at after a tumble he took down those gorgeous but potentially lethal stairs, we talked art and life and travels.
The next day, before driving with Carolee and her mum to Seattle, Kyle took some amazing and creepy shots of Carolee as a living mannequin in a warehouse.
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It was hard to say goodbye to them, but good to say to hello to our dear friends, Anna and Gus and the new addition the their family, Audrey. Who is now 2! It seems like a moment ago that I was knitting the baby blanket for her and now she's playing with trucks and looking all cool in sunglasses!
It's been fun looking for cute little outfits for her and dump trucks she'll enjoy... although she's at the age where she enjoys the bubble wrap more than the gift inside. She's pretty adorable.
And since Thanksgiving, time has been taken up with working with Santa:
... and going to holiday parties with famous archaeologists:
... and dressing up for the orchestra with my sweetie:
I'll try not to go so long without an update as things seem to pile up... and Facebook's new "improvements" leave me wanting something more.
I hope you all have a fantastic New Year!
In any case, we arrived in Portland on Thanksgiving Day and met up with our friends, Roger and Carolee, who made a fantastic dinner and then transported it all to the home of Lee Moyer, artist extraordinaire, who lives in an amazing Arts and Crafts home filled with wood detailing and built in china cupboards and Art Deco light fixtures. I could have eaten all that wood quite happily in its butterscotch splendor. Beautiful. After Carolee rushed Lee to the hospital to have his wrist and hand looked at after a tumble he took down those gorgeous but potentially lethal stairs, we talked art and life and travels.
The next day, before driving with Carolee and her mum to Seattle, Kyle took some amazing and creepy shots of Carolee as a living mannequin in a warehouse.
Click to make larger.
It was hard to say goodbye to them, but good to say to hello to our dear friends, Anna and Gus and the new addition the their family, Audrey. Who is now 2! It seems like a moment ago that I was knitting the baby blanket for her and now she's playing with trucks and looking all cool in sunglasses!
It's been fun looking for cute little outfits for her and dump trucks she'll enjoy... although she's at the age where she enjoys the bubble wrap more than the gift inside. She's pretty adorable.
And since Thanksgiving, time has been taken up with working with Santa:
... and going to holiday parties with famous archaeologists:
... and dressing up for the orchestra with my sweetie:
I'll try not to go so long without an update as things seem to pile up... and Facebook's new "improvements" leave me wanting something more.
I hope you all have a fantastic New Year!