Lefse Sticks

We use sticks and it does stick.

Black & White and Flour all over

The griddles were hot and the flour was flying.

Lefse (LEFFsah)

Today is Lesfe Day! Last night I made 72 lefse balls; can't imagine how many there will be in total - always hard to believe it will be too many.

iPad, youPad,

We all Pad for DooDad.

Half Full

50% chance of a continued good time.

Best of Roll

Roll as in iPhoto roll. We do still think of getting a dog, and the show was fun. But I need to learn all about things in motion as the best shots are all blurry dogs jumping over things.

Photo Tanja

Tanja had homework for her photography class and needed models and light from other devices, so she used her uncle and her daughter as the models. Adriana was pretending to show Eric how to download something from a laptop to an ipod.

Myron Cropsey

Heidi Cropsey's father is 100! I believe he is the first centenarian I have known. He wears headphones when he watches the TV news so other people can hear themselves think. When we talked about earthquakes he described the devastation from an earthquake in San Francisco. I asked if he meant the one in 1989, but he said, "No, the one in 1906."

Lite Fava Lies

Bananagrams keep us entertained.

D17

Storage Condo. Yep, that's what they call them, and it's making our lives much more manageable. A place to keep things. Big things. Soon Eric will add a loft where we can put much smaller things. Strange piece of real estate.

Train Bridge and Gull

View from the St. Johns Bridge.

Sunrise on Tuesday

Gery and I went up to the Pittock Mansion to try for a good sunrise shot over Portland.

Holiday Leftovers

Here's a situation where it wouldn't matter if you thought about the red-eye problem. These eyes were really red.

Manzanita Beach

We walked south for a long ways while the cloud wisps over the little town never changed.

Captured

Kerry once found a perfect float in the sand and all of us hoped to find one in the sand, too, but I only found these.

Beach Weekend

Beach weekend in January finds you beachcombing in downtown Manzanita.

Chess Looks Like a Bishop

Chess (short for Duchess) had a visit to the Vet yesterday. She belongs to Eric's brother and we babysat her today.

The Ford Man's Buick

It was Eric's birthday. He was happy to let me practice shooting while he read his weekly car rag. I was happy because I learned so much in this session. I mean, I got a much better sense of maneuvering through all the settings. Still so much to learn and improve on, but oh what a nice feeling. Depth of field, focus, aperture, ISO . . . then there is white balance, RAW vs. jpeg, action shots . . . whoa!

Winter Color

Went shopping near Lloyd Center. Wasn't for sale, of course, but I found some nice winter color.

Front and Back

The light is coming earlier!

Kohlrabi: Sunny and Cold

Kombucha Tea

(want some?)

Truckin' to Gregg's

Morning. Mid morning. I think I will be able to take the color photog class. It's full, but if I bring a laptop with Photoshop, there's a spot for me. Then if others drop out . . .

We picked up another load of firewood from Eric's brother Gregg near Salem. The '47 is running splendidly and likes carrying a full load.

Saturday Night

Here is a picture from Saturday, January 2. We were walking around downtown looking at buildings designed by architect A.E. Doyle since Eric just finished a book about him. This is the old Meier & Frank's, now Macy's. We had just seen "A Serious Man" at the Living Room Theater and walked over to the Lotus Card Room for a late dinner. So much to learn about my new camera: how to take pics at night for instance.

Snow Falling on Ivanhoe Street

Good Morning and Happy 2010!

Here is my new blog where I will post daily photographs and even some words.