Started the week by doing a digital painting that has been on my mind. Long time followers of this blog will recall the many candid photographs I took while living in France, I don’t find as many here, but I took this one from our fourth floor window – I had to use Tricia’s camera…
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This week in The Pearl – October 3, 2025
We had a good week, for some reason not a lot of photos, nor chances to do a lot of art. Friday, needing a bit of a balm, which for us is usually found together at a table, we went back to WildFin in Vancouver. Tricia had the Parmesan Encrusted Sole, I had the grilled…
This week in The Pearl – September 19, 2025
Sorting through photos is one of the best ways to get pulled in a multitude of directions as old memories of places, people, and pets derail our thinking; in good ways for the most part. This week I was drawn again to some differences between France, Europe, and the US. Often these differences are subtle,…
This week in The Pearl – September 12, 2025
This week was quite different from our time in Colorado. We are back in The Pearl planning, of course, for our future excursions, bien sur – we have three in the works. However this week has been about friends and family – as well as some long anticipated medical stuff for Tricia. Alexis and Joe…
This week in The Pearl – August 22, 2025
This week? Food, Urban Sketching, a birthday, chatting with friends from France – all good. Last Friday after posting our blogs we headed to the Yamhill Valley for lunch and a wine tasting. First stop, Dundee Bistro for lunch. We first went to the Dundee Bistro about 15 years ago, before we knew that Alexis…
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