A taste of Massachusetts

It was fun for me to soak up New England and remember the things I love about it.

Harvard and Halloween

I find it powerful that such beauty is created and then destroyed weeks, or even days later, when the artists come back to paint something new.

Too long away from Boston

My friends have been begging for a visit since 2008.

A good place to call home

The country here is so beautiful it’s park-like.

Sunshine for a rainy day

On this rainy October morning, a sunshine blog post is the perfect choice.

Sauvie Island Pumpkin Patch

Sauvie Island is a wide, flat island created because the Willamette River splits just before it empties into the Columbia River.

#sketch of the day no 411 in my #moleskine sketchbook: Wherever we are, it is our friends that make our world #ff

Originally posted on BulanLifestyle.com:
botanical illustration This one is for Crystal, my blogger friend who posted a flower a few days ago for me on her blog. Thank you and have a weekend filled with pretty things xoxo Wherever we are, it is our friends that make our world ?

Connections

My world is larger because of blogging.

Scenes from the Willamette

I was saved from the creepy people!

Bird Cache

I should have been focusing on my work, I know. But sometimes it’s much more interesting to gaze through the window at the backyard. One of the ubiquitous Western Scrub-Jays was digging with its beak. He must have been hitting a small rock in the soil, because it went “tink, tink, tink,” as the bird […]