Archive | August, 2005
Yankee Doodle Dandy

Yankee Doodle Dandy

One of the other places I’ve been lately is Cloud Nine. Melody reminded me that I haven’t yet posted anything about the Husqvarna Viking announcement. I got a call this week from Sweden to say I’d won second prize in their special exhibition that opens in Houston the end of this October. So it was [...]

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Tsuru for Good Luck

Tsuru for Good Luck

I finally got a photo gallery of our family reunion posted. It’s been held every summer in a different west coast city for the last 30 years, and around eighty to a hundred people usually show up. Next year my cousin Mari will be the chairman, and the reunion will be held in Portland, Oregon [...]

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A Tisket, a Tasket…

A Tisket, a Tasket…

So where have I been for the last couple of weeks? One place is Lincoln, Nebraska. We visited our friends Karen and Robert Duncan and got to see their new house and the most fabulous personal art collection I’ve ever seen. I hope they won’t mind me putting these photos that Russ took on the [...]

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Amazing Flying Dog Trick

Amazing Flying Dog Trick

Here’s Mochi’s new trick — the Amazing Flying Dog Trick. Russ plays tug-of-war with a training buoy, and as Mochi has gotten stronger, she holds onto the rope ferociously. And so the “Amazing Flying Dog Trick” has evolved. This trick goes very fast as Russ spins around, so I had to use the rapid-fire-shutter setting [...]

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Bruce Beasley Retrospective

Bruce Beasley Retrospective

We also went to Oakland for an afternoon. Bruce Beasley is a sculptor friend who was having a 45 year retrospective of his work at the Oakland Museum of Art. Although the museum was closed on Tuesdays, Bruce got us privately to see the show an take some photos. There were over 60 sculptures in [...]

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