this is last night’s dinner at home! i cooked the sliced onions in the oven for an hour in olive oil and then john cooked them in butter in a pan and with beef stock, little sage and a bit of port
after slicing fresh baguette into it, he topped it with gruyere and parmesan and broiled it for 5 minutes!, YUM!!!!
onion soup
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john took all these amazing rose photos with his iphone!!!!
pink roses
yellow rose
candy cane rose
baby pink rose
pale pink rose
lacy pink edges
pale honey rose
dark pink
fuchsia rose
violet rose
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Wow today we hunted down over 5 pounds even in rain and fog and a picked over forest floor
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pink roses
a bush we saved from oblivion in a corner of our back yard when we bought the house
grows tall, full of blooms….
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near the marais, this fabulous window appeared on our walk
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three small tables
well my small side tables are going to be at Relish for the first time ever!!!
I am thrilled, especially since it is an amazing store and these are my first furniture pieces! and completely hand made in portland!!!
15.5 in tall and 11 in wide
made of pure mahogany wood, hand finished in either black stain, teak oil (for outdoor use) or raw wood
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about an hour out of portland martie k. took me foraging for plants and moss and mushrooms today, she is after all a well cherished portland topiary designer and hunts down amazing green nature
a stump, well saturated with oregon rains
lush moss abounds everywhere
lichen on old stumps
and my (meager) catch of the day, a single chantarelle mushroom!
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my first one in NYC, acrylic
second one
parrot tulip
third one
fourth one
fifth one
sixth one
seventh one
Ieighth one
my color table
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I went to sherwood orchards today…and took my camera
the sky was amazing today, the rain had stopped
an amazing apple tree, amongst hundreds , it still held on to its fruit
bucket of apples
pinot noir grapes at chehalem
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our sewer line is being replaced! OMG Portland makes you do this if your sewer joins another’s and if you want to either sell your house or add a second bathroom, and at the tune of $6000 or so you are obliged to do it
side view near house
another side view
mud and holes and pipes
john staring down the deep hole
our lovely back yard
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so cool, last night ‘Instrument’, a web developing company in portland threw a moving in party at their new “HUGE” space near Franz bread factory in SE Portland!
koi food truck drove into the space and served delicious tacos (slow on delivery but worth every bite)
teepees built out of recycled wood,very cool
space and truck
new tents by a friend of instrument, set up for sleepy programmers and others
bring your guitar to work, why not!
open space, great lighting
cool ceiling
iinstrument open house party, wall light show
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i ran into steven romero and martie kilmer and they invited me to lunch at kenny and zuke’s
i ordered the very popular sandwich with corned beef for 11.95 and ate half, i brought the other half back to john who commented on it immediately, the foodie that he is
he said :this is very dry, not very moist, not crazy about it!
so there it is! he is the meat expert after all
kenny and zuke's corned beef
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before the renovation:
http://www.thekitchn.com/thekitchn/tours/visnja-and-johns-remodeled-kitchen-kitchen-tour-156818
after:
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not a bad place to take your in-laws especially on a great sunny day in Portland (rare in winter)
the eggs were all cooked wrong and the second time around as well, but we managed to eat them anyway
crab (patty) was a bit fishy but John still ate it, overall the best thing was the tea service!!! and my bibb salad
John orders from the menu in the outdoor garden area
egg, bibb lettuce, bacon, cheese, corn cake
monte christo sandwich
lentil burger on toast
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this is the city of my birth, Zagreb, croatia, a place I left when I was 10 and whenever I visit, every five years or so I am pleasantly surprised by great food and fantastic ambiance!
the cathedral is in the background
zagreb pizza w egg in middle-amazing!
zagreb veal chop, flash grilled and scrumptious french fries
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