Last weekend, Tricia’s sister and family came down from Seattle to go to a soccer game, which meant we got to spend some time together. Saturday we hung out and played Calico, check it out if you need a good addition to your boardgame shelf. I thought it was a perfect time since our niece…
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This week in The Pearl – August 1, 2025
One year a go today we moved into our apartment in Avignon. Tricia has posted many times about Avignon, here is my post from our first week there – it is hard to believe all that has changed. It was a good week here in The Pearl and beyond. Though I have been an Urban…
This week in The Pearl – July 18, 2025
Last weekend, well actually Thursday and Friday, were such a treat. Our friends from Mukilteo, Shirley and Jim, came down to visit for two days. They are Francophiles as are we, they travel to France most every year. We met up with them there on two of their trips. This time together was bittersweet though….
TheTravelsketcher’s Tuesday Tip – July 8, 2025
Approach painting like a chef preparing une création du chef, approach cooking as un artiste. “All is mysterious, magical, spellbinding, that which is accomplished between the moment of placing a pan or cooking pot and its contents over the fire, and that sweet moment, full of anxiety and sensuous hope, when you uncover, on the…
TheTravelsketcher’s Tuesday Tip – June 17, 2025
“Try not! Do!” Yoda Yesterday, I thought oil painting would be a good idea, but setting up and cleaning seemed like a lot of work. Thankfully Tricia gave me a bit of encouragement and I got my stuff out and started. Once into the motions I enjoyed doing a small painting from our trip to…
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