This has been a truly thankful week. Much of our time of course has been unpacking and we have made a lot of progress, it feels like home. Saturday we had lunch with my son and daughter-in-law in Lake Oswego, Sunday our daughter and son-in-law, then on Wednesday our friends came over for a pre-Thanksgiving…
TheTravelsketcher’s Tuesday Tip
“Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it” Salvador Dali Many a good sketch has been ruined by trying to make it perfect. If you captured the moment it is perfect enough.
Settling into the Pearl
We are settling into our apartment in the Pearl quite nicely and the sense I had early on of a bit of a Parisian feel has only grown. We can walk to most anything we need, we already discovered The Fields Bar & Grill which has a casual neighborhood feel – not the same as…
TheTravelsketcher’s Tuesday Tip
A pencil is good for more than just laying out a sketch, with ink it works well for shade. I use a Blackwing and a 5mm 4B in a lead holder.
The Pearl, a world away from La Thebauderie
Tuesday we got the fobs, they don’t use keys these days, to our apartment in the Pearl District of Portland, a world and two centuries away from La Thebauderie in Normandie. Tricia’s view today, and her views two years ago. We like the Pearl, it has a bit of a Paris feel. The streets are…
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