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Amelia looks like she is getting bigger every day. It is nice to see all her lovely outfits before she outgrows them. She clearly is at home with her family.
Settling Days
Oh, really nice days. I still don't feel like we've quite settled in — still a lot of visits and a lot of activity at the house — but I think we're getting there. The days do go quickly, as everyone says. She is an incredibly happy, laid back, c...
The love of your family just shines in these photos and in your post. Thank you for sharing this glimpse of your world.
Shine Bright
We are each growing and changing so much every day. Outside our windows, autumn leaves shine bright — it's the prettiest autumn I can remember here in a long time.We've been getting out for a walk every day since it feels like only a matter of minutes before ...
Thank you for sharing your happiness with your readers. Your daughter is lovely. Enjoy these first days with her. It is a time that you will remember always.
Magic Days
The days are filled with so much now. They are both long and short and not like any others. Everything feels full and sweet. Amelia sleeps as I write. She is awake much more now, but at this moment: quiet, quiet. Outside the windows the season has definit...
Glad the heat wave is over - hopefully for good. When might we see the ornament designs?
Late-Summer Slow
The air conditioning was on, and then it was off. We sat in the river almost all day on Friday (the hottest), but by Saturday it was strangely cool and weirdly gray and wanted to rain (though it never really did). I sat in the dining room working and drinking hot chai in a long-s...
This is an interesting blog, even for those of us who do not have your dietary issues.
Gluten-Free Vegan Banana Bread and Thoughts on Baking
Learning to cook gluten-free/nut-free/soy-free/sugar-free vegan hasn't been nearly as hard as learning to bake that way. I find cooking vegetables to be rather enjoyable, and I actually prefer it to the old days of cooking meat. But baking? Baking was a lot easier with eggs, butter, and sugar....
Happy Anniversary.
Like Alpine Glow
For her birthday, I made my sister a lace-weight crocheted Alpine Frost shawl. It was more the color of alpenglow. I was extremely pleased with and ridiculously proud of it. One of the top five things I've ever made, I think. I gave it to her last night at dinner (the four of us went h...
So sorry for your loss. Our pets are such an important part of our lives. Violet had a wonderful home.
Our dear sweet Violet left this world on Sunday...
Our dear sweet Violet left this world on Sunday afternoon. She was eighteen years old this summer. We'd gotten her when she was a tiny kitten. She used to sit on my shoulder, like a little bird. She'd wake me up by sitting on my heart, and staring at me. Our sweet, sweet friend. The angel of o...
I am so happy that you have sun again. For me, reading your posts and looking at your photographs brings sunshine into my day no matter what the weather is outside. Thank you for the blog. Have a great weekend.
Ah. Sunshine.
Oh yeah. Bring it.
Happy Birthday to Andy. Thanks for sharing so much of your life with Alicia's readers. Have a wonderful 42nd year!
After-Dinner Storm
A little dinner party on Saturday night with our dear old college friend Kurt and his darling wife, Sheena, who were in town briefly from San Fran. For coffee and banana cake, we went outside to the chairs. Within a half an hour, the sky turned from beautiful, bright sunset gold to pew...
Powell Books is listed under the first category - Must See and Do
Things to Do in Portland, Oregon
Should you find yourself in the Rose City, here are a few suggestions for you. No list could be comprehensive; I compiled this one from this blog's local reader comments (thank you!), and added several of my and Andy's favorite places and activities. If you have further suggestions, please lea...
Beautiful. You know that we all appreciate your "problem." We should all be so lucky as to have your problem of creating beauty in so many ways. As always thank you.
I know.
I've got problems.
A Sunday post - what a treat for yor readers. Clover Meadow looks as beautiful as usual.
Mudpuppies
Breakfast at Wapato Greenway, 2/18/12.
Clover Meadow looks like such a sweetheart!
Oh, my sweet little poet. I think she's writing...
Oh, my sweet little poet. I think she's writing villanelles in her mind. She's very serious. Sensitive. So sincere. My Clover Meadow. I love her so.
Happy Valentine's Day. You show us how to love life in every post.
Weekend WIPs
Crocus blooms : : A big pancake : : A bosom friend : : Yarn I don't like : : Taking the chair cushions in : : Making garden plans : : My Aestlight, finished a year ago, well-worn, just photographed : : Late nights up talking : : Watching American Pickers : : Pretty plant names : : ...
A Sunday post - what a treat for your readers. Lovely!
In the Woods
A night, a morning, a day, a night, and a morning at a little cabin in the woods.
Great story. I love your house.
Winter Spring
Thank you for all the nice house tour comments! You guys are all so sweet. So sweet. Thank you. I guess our house has changed quite a bit since we started redoing things last year. Redoing the windows and then the bathrooms was a pretty major event for us. We were not redoing-type peop...
Have a wonderful birthday weekend!
Very, very excited about all of the sampler...
Very, very excited about all of the sampler enthusiasm — thank you so much! I am thrilled. We will talk! It's my birthday tomorrow, so I made myself a wee little birthday cake. And took a big huge picture of it. :-)
You are such a generous person. You offer more to your readers than you may know. I wish you and your family a good new year.
When I was little, I used to like New Year's Eve....
When I was little, I used to like New Year's Eve. My dad was a musician and usually worked that night, and my mom would go to wherever he was playing. We three girls would spend the night at our grandma and grandpa's, and that was my happy place: The house was overly warm and almost new. E...
Merry Christmas. Thank you for all the brightness you bring into the world!
Merry and Bright
We wish you a truly happy Christmas, filled with love, hope, warmth, good food, gentle times, and quiet joys. Thank you for being a such a sweet part of our days, and our lives. We love you guys. Love always, ...
You make us all feel warm and cozy. May you have a good Christmas.
Warm and Cozy
We got a new table and haven't stopped talking about it. It's a big old oak rectangle. I was wondering if it had been in a school — when we got it home and turned it over we found ancient chewing gum on its underside, so probably. I think it's the table of a lifetime — I've been waiting fo...
I am sure that they appreciate the wonderful quilt provided to them by their "staff." I hope that they let Clover Meadow have a turn.
Kitters Cozy
I'd love to show you the quilt, but now the kitters has claimed it. I'll see what I can do.
Clover Meadow certainly knows how to make us smile. I know that she will get plenty of time on and under the finished quilt.
I explained that it was time to make the quilt...
I explained that it was time to make the quilt sandwich, and she wasn't allowed to get on the quilt yet. She explained to me that she wasn't actually on the quilt. . . . No, not actually. Kind of a literalist. Mwah. Right on your big ol' nose, you. Precious love.
Very cozy.
Late Afternoon
Just peppermint tea and a gingersnap.
Thank you for sharing with us the beauty of every day life.
December
Lovely, dark fog this morning in the yard. Frost on the rooftops, on the dried leaves in the yard and the grass. I can hardly see the tree just down the street; it's muffled in its cloud, and I like it. I'm in a nightgown and kneesocks, thinking we should go o...
Alicia - you truly are a beautiful person. As for the clementines it is really hard to eat just one or two or three!
Logs Around a Hearth
Logs around a hearth. I haven't stacked them right. I think you're supposed to do them in some kind of order. I always forget. I think I might use wool batting instead of cotton. More on that later. I've got some Liberty lawn in these squares. Probably a mistake to use different fabric weights...
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