Life of Wry

Art. Yet another thing we — as parents — failed to instill in Peter. We didn’t give him siblings, or a dog… or a pool, or a cul-de-sac!

[Hangs head.]

Jim and I each have our creative pursuits and outlets (such as they are), but we didn’t go very far down the road of encouraging Peter’s artistic development. He was never much interested, frankly, but maybe we could have modeled more, or guided him more? Well… I’ll defend myself by saying he had a full childhood with lots of activities and, in my heart of hearts, I don’t believe he suffered. (And I’m sure, if I tried, I’d find lots of examples of us introducing him to art or music (in which he did partake), or other forms of creative expression (does designing his own bedroom count?).

Well… I can see this could be a long blog post, and it’s late, so I’ll just get to the photo I wanted to post.

This is a picture Maya sent to Jim a couple days ago with the lead in, “Peter does art!”

She’s clearly having some very positive influences on our boy. She’s very arty. She makes time for art in her daily life (she’s been taking ceramic classes lately, she loves fashion, she loves building things, she’s an architect after all). And … it looks like some of that is rubbing off on P.

A sweet development.

I mean…

Diana, who’ll be growing into those shoes in no time.

Ten eggs! And separated, to boot! Special flour, special sugar, and ever so fussy! I won’t know until Thursday — Betsy’s birthday — whether it actually came out, but it was quite an undertaking.

Beat until just stiff peaks form….

Made it into the oven.. in our new tube pan. Must NOT use a bundt pan…

And.. it looks pretty good…

Like I said… fussy!

California was not among those states where one could view the eclipse in person. Glad for Peter and Maya, who had a relatively short drive to Bloomington to view it with Leah and Sara and not sure who all.. but so glad they could see it!

Here in Davis, at its peak, I was in a dentist’s chair. But I streamed coverage of it for most of the morning and a good part of the afternoon. I imagine it was more profound in real life…

Stay tuned!

Attended this today in Berkeley. It was good: inspiring, informative, impressive. Glad to be one of hundreds/thousands of people making a real difference in electoral politics.

Democracy shall prevail.

Take that Magas.

I love a sky like this.

The best thing our backyard neighbors ever did was plant some wisteria along the back edge of their yard, which means it blooms in full view of our backyard-facing windows and cascades gently over our shared fence. Lucky us!

This photo was taken 3 days ago when the sun was shining the temps were in the high 70s! It rained most of today and the high was 49. Yeow!

(And it’s snowing in Burlington VT and it’s flirting with lows in the 20s in Ann Arbor…. so…. not complaining.)

…Drive-In!

Met Sarah today for a late lunch in far east Sac (Fair Oaks) and, at Sarah’s suggestion, ate at this food-truck-before-there-were-foodtrucks place: The Sunflower Drive-In. I don’t know if it was ever an actual drive-in, but it does have walk up window service. They serve vegetarian fare and there were tons of things on the menu I was eager to order (I ended up with an egg salad sandwich and a banana-pineapple smoothie). I can see going again sometime.

Lotta poppies, but never enough for Jim!