We Interrupt Our Regularly Scheduled Programming

I'm a bit wrapped up in the Olympics! It's causing a general lack of... well, anything else, really. Is that happening to you too?

I do hope you're enjoying the games. Happy weekend to you!

Poster by Andrew Maunders on Behance.

Some 1st Dibs Love

Hi and I hope you're having a happy Friday. I'm gazing at just a few things that caught my eye on 1st Dibs this week...

I hope you have a beautiful weekend.
On a heavier note, please keep the people of Colorado in your thoughts. Our state is having a rough summer. First so many fires, and now an awful shooting. It's so sad.

All photos from 1st Dibs.

Wedding

Hi. Have I told you my little sister will be married next week in Maine?

I know there will be love and happiness...and lace, lobsters and hydrangea. We'll be at the shore. She'll be married in a lovely old stone church. My whole family will be there of course, and we are so happy for her and her marvelous future husband. We leave Sunday for the week, and I'm very excited!
Photos: mine, Style Me Pretty, Polkadots and Plaid, The Knotty Bride, hydrangea on Pinterest, St. Ann's.

Camping

I love camping. These first pics are not mine, but I've been staring at them longingly since we arrived home and packed away our gear...

And that's how our trip felt to me. Those photos capture it. Plus a few of mine...

It's apparent that I love the idea of sitting by the fire with warm things to drink and eat. Eddie and Doug whittled and I watched. We had s'mores of course and played by the river. They rode bikes. It was simple and great.
I came home from our this little trip in the best mood, wanting to go right out again. We will do it again in less than two weeks and I am planning already. Can't wait.
Top group of photos found here.

Hemingway and all

Hi. Well, that was an awful weekend. Sickness, irritability, bad weather... oooof. OK, done with the rant. I hope yours was much better! I did read two wonderful (though disturbing and morbid) Hemingway stories. I'd have read more, but these needed to sink in a bit. He tells a great story. The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber meant a whole lot more this time around (read it 20+ years ago??). I also finished the The Capital of the World. Marvelous but very sad. I highly recommend a Hemingway fix every once in a while. I'll be with him for a while, with forty seven more stories to read in the volume we had hanging around.
Since Hemingway's on my mind and he loved the bull fights, I smiled when I saw this sweet little painting by William Posey Silva... Reminds me of Hemingway. To be auctioned tomorrow at John Moran.
Bull Fight - Madrid by William Posey Silva.

Cowan's "American Indian Art"

Happy Thursday. We've been busy and my boy is under the weather, so not much blogging! I did browse a bit yesterday, and saw these Native American pieces to be auctioned today at Cowan's. The beadwork, weaving, sewing and carving are wonderful. But while gazing at these pieces is exciting, I do not like seeing these at auction. The loss they represent is too depressing and discouraging to get into here; suffice it to say I wish they could go back to their people.
A Northern Plains beaded and quilled token pouch, a pair of Cree beaded high-top moccasins, three Paiute beaded baskets, an Eskimo carved wooden seal rattle, an Attu Eskimo lidded basket, and a pair of Sioux beaded hide moccasins.

Printemps

I'm feeling the strong urge to be in Paris, in couture pink (quite apparently) today (ha! I'm just reading that over and it sounds so incredibly pretentious! Well, why not?-we never get citified here, so I can dream once in a while!) ...Cafe at Angelina from the always lovely Little Brown Pen; No. 5; delicate cherry blossoms in the Chanel and Japan Haute Couture Show; wondering who will have this vintage Hermes rose Birkin; Chanel S/S 2012 ready-to-wear; and A&B Kasha found the sweetest pink Fiat, parked on rue Paul-Louis Courier.

Seven

My baby is seven! Not so much a baby anymore, I guess, but it's very hard to believe. I love that he is still such a sweet soul, and has a lot of his little boy innocence. He's had a very happy birthday weekend -- the robot-making party was a great success, he's enjoyed skiing both days, there are lots of presents, and grandma and grandpa are visiting tonight. He may need a recovery day!I hope your weekend is going well too! This beautiful photograph is by Elgarbo Art on Etsy.

It'll Be A Robot Birthday

Happy Friday! Eddie's birthday party is tonight. I can't believe he's turning seven tomorrow. Wow. The boys will be tearing apart old radios and things, then building robots with the parts and other weird pieces we've collected. We're drawing our inspiration from these goofy amazing guys on Etsy. My sister even found lots of old binoculars and opera glasses on ebay... Eddie has been planning this party in his mind for months, so I hope it's a success. I'll try to snap photos between helping to screw on arms and wheels. Happy weekend to you and thanks so much for visiting!
1,2,4,and 7 by Reclaim2Fame; 3,8, and 9 by StangMont; 5,10 and 11 by Sally Colby; 6 by Jones RoboWorks.

Weekend Views

There was a marvelous purple light out our back door last night...and we enjoyed lovely views on our snowshoe yesterday...It has been a rough week in our valley. A young boy, a student in Eddie's small school, died in an avalanche while he skied at Vail last Sunday. My heart aches for his family. Our community feels the loss deeply and over 1000 people attended the service to celebrate his happy life Friday. We go on, reminded to live life as fully as this boy did. And we hug our little ones...as often as we can!