The garden is looking good!

It's not even June yet but the garden is looking good. The front yard just went kind of crazy this year....everything seems to have jumped up several feet in size. The radishes are some of our first crop from the vegetable garden. I'll post pictures again mid-summer so you can see how my garden grows!

Pug crawl

I'm actually repeating a picture! Bad form for a photography blog....but we went to the local "Pug Crawl" today and I forgot to take a camera. Here's a link to last year's event if you want to see a few pics. Just dealing with Daisy takes enough of my attention.

Anyway, the Crawl was held at a local brewery (good thing since at least this pug loves beer!). I've never seen so many pugs in one place in my life! Of course it had to be a hot day for this....dragging a dog to this event would be a circumstance any good pug owner would have known to avoid. Pugs don't do well in heat since their breathing passages are so constricted. Daisy is one I can't walk if it's anything over about 70 degrees. 

Anyway, I must say, this is a really good breed of dog. All of them were either concentrating on getting a breath or getting the attention of their people. It was amazing seeing that many dogs in one place that were basically ignoring each other. I would have been shocked if a fight had broken out....it would have been so out of character. Anyway, we didn't stay long but that's what happened in Daisy's day. Not that she remembers (or cares).

Laurelhurst Art Walk

So it's art show season around here again. I've scaled back considerably this year....my sales were not good last year and with the economy so bad this year I didn't do anything new. But when the world starts improving again, I'll get back into it. I'm more interested in doing travel photography, maybe hanging shows in local cafe's or photography galleries. We'll see how it goes.

Meanwhile, Charles had a table of guitars set up this year and I hosted the painter, Mandy Main, a good friend of ours...the jewelry maker, Cheryl Cook and Elizabeth Bachman who makes decorative travel-themed boxes. Mandy sold a painting and a few small reproductions, I sold one print and Cheryl Cook sold a few pair of earrings (mostly to me!) so the economy continues to take a toll on local artists. *Sigh*

It's art show season

Heeeeeere's Charles! Doesn't he look coy? He participated in the Marylhurst Musical Instrument Show last weekend and showed a few of his guitars. The guitars in themselves are a work of art but it's the pickguards (that I make) that really draw people in. So it's my job to catch the eye and Charles job to get the prospective buyer to sit down and play.

I really like this leopard print design....if you see it up close it even looks like fur. Crazy!

Next weekend Charles and I and three other artists are participating in the Laurelhurst Art Walk here at the house. We usually get in quite a crowd. I'll post pics from that show later.