An American bulldog, being a terrier breed, can never resist the temptation to dig. Especially when there are gophers about, which is frequently, in our yard.
Ripley throws her whole body into the action, growling, snapping and furiously digging with both forepaws. The gopher, by this time, is several football fields away, dragging a rosebush down […]

Embroidered silks, shot at a swap meet a little while ago.
I wish I had some sort of exotic story to go along with it, but it was just a grab shot as I was attracted by the filminess.

A view of downtown Los Angeles, midmorning.
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Sadly, this isn’t a world class metropolitan area. It doesn’t compare to San Francisco or New York as a downtown you can live in and walk around in. Mostly it’s a place where people go to work in high rises and then leave to drive an […]

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We have been having a discussion about the thin Moleskine paper in the newer sketchbooks vs. the heavier weight paper over in the Everyday Matters yahoo group. I’m pretty disappointed with my purchase and the only way I can salvage a drawing on this “tissue paper” […]

Day 10. While I’ve been working, bean has been busy making chlorophyll and looking for sunshine. She lives outside now and gets watered daily. Any day now she’ll be moving out into her own place - a high rise for the upwardly mobile. The cotyledon is not visible from this side, but it’s shriveling, […]

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We have been having a discussion about the cheesy Moleskine paper in the newer sketchbooks vs. the heavier weight paper over in the Everyday Matters yahoo group. I’m pretty disappointed with my purchase and the only way I can salvage a drawing on this “tissue paper” […]

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This isn’t a new picture but it’s one of my favorite candids, taken last year at a dog adoption day in Burbank, California. I often wondered later if his family let him take that dog home.

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One of the great things about Los Angeles (and other big cities) is the wealth of summer festivals held every weekend. This weekend was the annual Lotus Festival at Echo Park, home of the largest lotus bed in the United States. I photographed and drew for several hours […]

Marbled rye for brunch, to be precise. I’m not sure how they get those swirled patterns in there. My guess is that they take some pumpernickel dough and some light rye dough and smush them together before they put it in the pan for the final rising. I’d like to try that but it […]

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When I posted the topic “Draw something Dad” for the Everyday Matters challenge, I had no idea how difficult it would be for me to pick an object to illustrate. I had already written about the dustpan he made for us many years ago. And it occurred to me to draw one of […]