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…
TheTravelsketcher’s Tuesday – September 30, 2025
For sixty-three years I’ve ground myself within this karmic mortar. Yesterday I washed it out and put it high on the pantry shelf. From Braided Creek, by Ted Kooser and Jim Harrison In art, and in life, we have plenty of past to beat ourselves up over – the hardest person to forgive and accept…
This week in The Pearl – September 26, 2025
We are so blessed to have friends and family, food, and a wonderful part of the world to live in. In anticipation of our friends Tim & Lisa coming over for Sunday lunch we spent Saturday doing some cleaning and food prep. Tricia did a repeat performance of her gratin de courgettes, I made a…
TheTravelsketcher’s Tuesday Tip – for those who feel unartistic.
If you feel like you just aren’t artistic try just capturing the color of the moment. Years ago I started my “Yes! You can travelsketch!” workshops because so many people told me they were just not artistic, many who came found actually they could travelsketch. The purpose of travelsketching is to do something other than…
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