A Trip to Portland

I just got home from three fun-filled nights and days in Portland. It's such a vibrant and interesting town in which to wander. Here's some of what I saw: a horse of a different color, a clown who knows my friend kelly,
bike racks at Powell's Books with quotations on them, a rose garden, the Bagdad cafe and the youth hostel in the NW neighborhood where I stayed. The hostel hasprivate rooms which are cheap and comfortable as well as dorm rooms and a communal kitchen where you can cook to save money on meals. It's an easy walk to the Pearl district from their location on no 18th and Glisan.



Extremo the clown

Sixties throwback couple stroll at the Saturday market.


Bike racks at Powell's books



Lux in the Pearl..a lighting paradise.


Cargo, an over the top, great, import store in the Pearl district.


Cup and Saucer cafe in the Hawthorne neighborhood

The Bagdad Theatre on Hawthorne.
The Rose Garden in Washington Park. It was sunny day.

Whore Moans poster

Seen on the street on Capitol Hill. I love the name of the band....

Blow Baby Blow!

Steve's birthday was celebrated with a Red Velvet cake and cupcakes. There was a lot of firepower because there were 57 candles. The cake turned out well, how could it fail with all that butter, cream cheese and red dye #2?!

He couldn't blow out all the candles with one breath...it was pretty smoky in the room after they were all out.

Museum of Bad Art Opening at Cafe Racer

Marlow Harris, poses with a mirrored Vespa at the opening of the Museum of Bad Art. She and her husband JoDavid are the curators. Stop by Cafe Racer on Roosevelt in Seattle to see some good, bad art!

Cory Gooch, one of the attendees, applies lipstick with Marlow outside Cafe Racer. Cory was a hit in her Supergirl red cape and matching red boots!

I like this blog.

http://ladybugcircus.typepad.com/blog/

Check it out. She does Recyled Tin Art and Assemblage and other wonderful things.

Art imitates Nature

This is a photo of some birds flying in formation.


I used one of the formations as the inspiration for a textile design below. Can you see it?

Random Photos from a trip to San Francisco and Sea-Tac Airport a few years ago

The pictures above were taken at the Sea-Tac airport in Concourse D.

They are part of a great stained glass window there by Dick Weiss called "Cow On Its Side".

Our airport is like a giant modern art gallery...it showcases some great work. See more details about art at Sea-tac airport here:
http://www.portseattle.org/seatac/art/ongoing.shtml


This was a cool window display in a San Francisco boutique, click for more detail.

Lanterns in Chinatown, San Francisco