Words Of Whimsy

REMINDERS

Monday May 12 the US POSTAL SERVICE adds 1 cent increase to the cost of those sending snail mail.

MAY 20 8pm is the deadline to get your ballots in...just do it!  some people some places DIE trying to vote PLEASE don't waste yours.  Thanks!

Watchdog in Training

somehow  I think it will take A LOT of TREATS... but we are working on it.  Isn't she ADORABLE!!!! 

Senseless...

Last night I was so tired I was in bed by 8:15pm!!!  I had to Tivo CSI and ER.  But then at 11:48pm we were awakened to POUNDING on the front door.  Who the heck knocks on the front door at that time of night with good news?  NOBODY!  It was the Police.  Informing us we our trusty van parked on the street was one of at least 6 hit by VANDALS and our front drivers window had been broken out.  WHY DO PEOPLE DO THESE THINGS????? It really just BITES THE BIG ONE.  so at midnightnight Frankie and I were moving cars and sweeping glass out of the street and shaking our heads in frustration and disgust.  I try too look for the positive and at least it wasn't raining and they didn't spray paint our cars. But still it HURTS.  In so many ways. 

We officially know now our adorable doodle Sophie is pretty much good for 3 things, licking feet, playing fetch and cuddling when SHE deems she wants to .  Apparantly playing WATCH DOG is NOT on her her dandy list of characteristics, she thought the policeman had come to play with her and was quite insulted when he didn't come in.  We didn't hear a thing either.

There is just no place for senseless acts of vandalism, it is one of the things highest on my pet peeves list and having been struck personally again it hurts. Sadly they are out there, be aware of your surroundings and your nighbors and keep your eyes and ears open, you might prevent a senseless act of violence from happening.  I am going to go have a talk with Sophie about this right now too!  Maybe two treats will intice her to be more aware!  Have a happy Friday.  I am despite my interrupted sleep.

Dreams...

I awoke this morning to the pounding snooze alarm, rather to Frankie Pounding the snooze alarm..I just could not get up...I didn't want my dream to end. 

I was having the most beautiful vision and I was so warm.  I was sitting on a beach and there was a volcano erupting very close to me with black and red molten lava pouring down, as if I was on a beach in Hawaii or something.  Then I thought I should be taking a picture of this, but when I looked through my camera there was the most exquisite castle made of colored glass and stone and metal and with the backdrop of the volcano above it looking up you could see sun light shining through the colored part of the glass on the castle.  I woke up to the alarm and Frankie saying "You have got to get UP Becky" just as I was lining up the coolest photo ever.  What a dream.  Now what the heck does it mean????  Any clue????

Aaa-MAY-zing Neighborhood Art show at Touchstone!

Hi Everyone,

If you haven't ventured into the NEW Touchstone Coffee and Tea House (located at 445 NE 70th and South of NE Glisan in the big Gray House behind Dominoes Pizza) then the month of MAY is the time to come in.

They are having an Aaa -MAY-ZING ART SHOW featuring a variety of NEIGHBORHOOD ARTISTS including PHOTOGRAPHY BY ME!!!  Yes, This is my first public showing, other than my cards, and I have four 8 X 10 matted and framed photographs in the show and they are all for sale!!!  So please come and take a look at my photographs and see the other great art as well!

Touchstone is open 7 days a week Mon-Sat 6:30am-7pm and Sundays 8-4 and If you are not a coffee drinker they have a great tea selection from Tao of Tea,Italian sodas and Naked Juices.  They have wheel chair access and wi-fi too.  Please help spread the word!!!

Happy May Day!!!

For all my life this has been my younger sister Amy's most favorite day of the year! It's May day...Beltane, International Worker's Day, so many historical things today.  But many of us associate today today with flowers and leaving flowers on doorsteps for people. I of course always associate it with my sister and her love for today.  Once when I was in college she sent me a fax with a picture of a basket of flowers on it that simply said Happy May Day...I had NO DOUBT who it was from.

Here is a great link for a comical history of May Day http://www.brownielocks.com/mayday.html

SInce I can't make it to all your doorsteps today, imagine if you will, that you have opened your door and these are waiting for you.  Happy May Day and Enjoy.  If you are inclined pass a posie on to another today as well and make their day!

ahhh!!

Finally, the slouds are lifted and I can see the sun in the sky.  oh what a little dadh of Vitamin D does for my spirit mid April in Portland!  Hope you all are fairing well.  I am FINALLY over my Pneumonia I believe, man o my, did that just knock me to my knees! Sometimes I don't realize how much I actually take breathing for granted until it actually seems I can't breath without shoot pain or gasping for air or grabbing for an inhaler...

yes breathing in the fresh scent of all the lilacs in bllom is much nicer.

The magnolias are lovely this spring...

and what is Spring without Tulips around?

Enjoy your beautiful Sunny Saturday! 

When you least expect it..

Well I got blindsided on Tuesday...

I had to go to the ER room last friday night for stomach pains and they took a chest x-ray and stomach x-rays..I went home with nothing but backed up plumbing..

TMI I am sure...Sorry...

so anyway I took care of that and went back to work on Monday, still not 100% but not quite sure what was up. Then the phone rang on Tuesday and it was the Dr.  calling to say even though I hadn't come in for this reason on Friday, my chest X-ray showed I had PNEUMONIA!!!!  Geepers I wasn't expecting THAT!!! So now I am on a doozy of a round of antibiotics and home resting for a few days.  I just wanted to let you all know that if you have ANY symptoms muscle aches, minor cough, chest pain, restless sleep, headaches, intestinal stuff, etc.  BE SURE and have your DR. check your lungs...Pneumonia is going around this year.  I am so thankful they just happened to do a chest X-ray  or I would be really sick by now and not know why.  Be Well.

check this out

one of my favorite places in Portland

diy lounge located in the back on my favorist ART STORE EVER

Collage Art Store On Alberta  finally has a blog and you should check it out. You will also, no doubt, be as thrilled as me, to learn that DIY Lounge and Collage are expanding and will soon be opening location # 2 on SE Woodstock next to Safeway...check out their blogs for more info....

Please come visit ME at COLLAGE  on 17th and NE Alberta the next 2 thursday evenings, I will be filling in and selling you cool art and craft supplies.  If you have never been to Collage or maybe you have just been needing something or want to visit me come see me 5pm to close~ April 3rd and 10th...I'll be there.... :)

Sho For Mayor

Please join me in supporting SHO DOZONO for Portland's Next Mayor. You can learn more about this great candidate at  http://www.shoformayor.com  You can also read what my friend the current Mayor, Tom Potter, has to say in his Official Endorsement of Sho here:  DON'T FORGET TO REGISTER VOTE!!!

Mayor Potter Endorses Sho Dozono

I am here to endorse Sho Dozono for Mayor of Portland because he is

a proven leader, a successful business man with a big heart, and a guy

who loves Portland. I came to know Sho when I asked him two years

ago to find money for Portland's financially strapped schools - and he

did!

He came to Portland as an immigrant and has been a high school

teacher and wrestling coach, a soldier, a business man, father of five,

husband to Loen, served on countless boards and organizations, and

has been called on by Governors and Mayors to move mountains and

solve problems.

He doesn't just talk about education - he knows about the needs of

schools first hand. Sho was a teacher at Grant High; he co-founded

the Portland Schools Foundation, led education marches, and raised

millions for our cash strapped schools.

Sho has heart - he stepped up after 9/11 to lead a delegation of

Portlanders to New York City to show New Yorkers that Oregonians

care, and after Katrina led a delegation to New Orleans with the

Governor and Mayor of Portland. He was honorary co-chair of AIDS

walk, Governors task Force on Equality, Multnomah County Task Force

on Aging, Metropolitan Human relations Commission, Museum at

Warm Springs, Port of Portland Commissioner, Japanese American

Citizens League, Portland State University Foundation, Oregon

International trade Commission, Portland Business Alliance, Mercy

Corp, Portland YMCA, United Methodist Synod National Board member

- to name a few.

Sho is a successful businessman who treats his employees like family,

and has made payroll for over three decades. He gets that people need

family wage jobs and should be treated with dignity and respect.

I respect and trust Sho. He is a quiet man, not given to bragging, but

when you're looking for someone to fix a problem - Sho's the guy.

Portland needs Sho, because Portland needs a mayor who cares about

people and knows the value of a dollar. Sho is mature, calm under

pressure, and a problem-solver. He understands the need for being

inclusive and making sure all voices are heard. I ask Portlander's to

get to know Sho because I think they'll see - He'll be a great mayor.