Misc.

The new neighbors- Jon and Emma, meet some of the old neighbors at a get-together at the Cardamons'.

Cat? What cat?

After the rain the mist painted a Christmas tree picture on the patio screen.

The tree in the driveway puts on it's Fall costume.

The hawks nest in the eucalyptus tree. (look hard!)

Just waiting to have their picture painted.

Chloe always sneaks into the picture.


Nancy, Bob and I had such a wonderful Thanksgiving at our friends- the Millers- in Palos Verdes that I forgot to take any pictures. 

On the road

Notice the passenger!

Seen on the way to the film club last month.

Zendala # 80

Template from thebrightowl.blogspot.com

zendala # 79

Thanks to Erin atthebrightowl.com  for the template.
And an extra special thanks to Rick and Maria for developing Zentangles.
I don't what I'd do without them.
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Teaching a children's art class at the library

The classes are sponsored by the Fallbrook Art Assoc.

Sometimes as many as 15 kids attend, so I was ready...and only 2 showed up.

But they sure had a good time. They made trick- or- treat bags. 

Elisha started 15 minutes early and didn't want to stop. But finally got tired of it and started making paper airplanes from the fancy papers which he had fun flying all over the place. He had a ball!

Christina is a budding dress designer. She really enjoyed the patterned paper and the trims, and was very creative with it.

Here's one of her creations.

Here's all three of hers.

Elisha added a lot of drawings to his bag... spider, bats, a moon and pumpkins. 

His mother told me how proud she was of him.

No Trailer (Gael García Bernal - 2013)

This is the trailer for this Sunday's film at the North County Film Club.

Another great weekend

Didn't think I was going to like it but it was thoroughly enjoyable!

Leon Russell - A Song For You (1970)

Leon Russell at the Belly Up last night

Leon Russell is one of my very favorites. He had kind of disappeared from the scene for the last few years but thanks to Elton John he's back touring and recording. Nancy and I went to the concert last night and had a fantastic time. Maybe even (as the guy next to me commented "the time of our lives"). 

It was such a fantastic crowd. In the midst of all the loud music, people actually struck up conversations with us. We heard their whole life stories. I even got asked out, but since it was for a motorcycle ride, I declined.( I really hate motorcycles!) I can't tell you how young all this made me feel. As another guy in the crowd said to me "I feel about 20 years old!". Of course, as you might expect, it was mostly a pretty old crowd. There were a lot of young people there, though. You wouldn't think they would have heard of Leon Russell but they were enjoying it just as much as we were. 

I forgot to mention another nice thing. As we were about to pay to get in a very nice man came up and gave us two tickets. So not only was it fantastic, it was FREE!

Kathy Morgan's art show and new Zendala

Kathy's art was shown at the Brandon Gallery. There was a wonderful turn-out for the opening.
Everybody from our book club was there, except Helen who was on a cruise. A lot of friends I hadn't seen in a long time were also there. I must have been having a good time because I sure didn't take very many pictures.

 

Two of the girls from our book club wanted to buy this one. I don't know who finally won. But one of them bought it. I wouldn't mind having it myself.

I made Kathy work when she should have just been enjoying the adulation. I bought a $2.50 pen instead one of the pieces of art. What a skinflint!

Esther and Lynne having fun!

Zendala Dare # 72

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Zendala Dare #71

The template-

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Art Walk San Diego

Sarah Bates invited us to see Jim's (her husband's) art work at Art Walk San Diego last week. Here's one of my favorites of Jim's paintings...

One of the booths.

Great food from a Deborah Scott's food truck. She's a chef for the wonderful Cohn Restaurant group.
We didn't choose a patty melt, but some of the more exotic fare.

 

Even Michael was there chatting with some of the fairgoers.

One of the beautiful houses in the neighborhood- with a fantastic wreath in the window...

and an interesting fence.

A real entrepreneur lives in the neighborhood!

Zendala Dare #70

Something about this reminds me of a Mariachi sombrero.

Here's the template from The Bright Owl

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Sepia Saturday- Hats, Picnics

My Sepia Saturday post this week isn't exactly about hats---it's about a wig-- and it was no picnic!

http://banardesigns.blogspot.com/2010/02/embarrassing-travel-moments-china-1985.html

To see more hats and picnic stories go to sepiasaturday.blogspot.com

TanglePatterns strings #64 & #65

Diva challenge #131 Dex monotangle

Dex is my favorite tangle but I've never used it all by itself before.

It was a challenge!

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A new way to fight tooth decay?

I drove past this sign three times, thinking "what are they going to promise next?"

Then I got a better look.

What a disappointment!

I was ready to cancel all my dental appointments and buy a bible.

Sunday with Robert Reich

Robert Reich was Secretary of Labor in the Clinton administration. He gave a talk at Mira Costa College last Sunday. He teaches at Berkeley now.

He's really intelligent, logical, very funny and very short. He makes a lot of jokes about his short stature which was very endearing, especially thrown into the middle of some very heavy subjects.

I left the talk feeling as if I knew him personally. He's one of my heroes. Here's his blog: http://robertreich.org/

Diva challenge #123 and Zendala #66

Diva challenge # 123
 This challenge was a 2 pencil string. Draw your string with two pencils tied together.
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 Zendala # 66
Here's the template:




I tried an experiment. I did a collage of colored tissue paper and tangled over it.
I'm not happy with it. Too many colors.
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Critters I have known

I'm not very squeamish about bugs, but finding this on my kitchen counter last night gave me quite a scare.

Not so much that I wasn't able to deal with it, though. I got a box, scooped it up, closed the lid and took it outside as far from the house as I could go while barefoot. I hope it was far enough away that there won't be a homecoming.  Does this say something about my housekeeping abilities?

Here's a beautiful bug that rode on my windshield one day while I did errands- for at least an hour. Stayed with me the whole time and came all the way home before he left the windshield. I was glad because I didn't want him to hop off far from home and be lost. He looks like a fish with legs.

  Here's a few more: (maybe I should have been an entomologist)

The scorpion is my least favorite. I've found several in my house.

All the others are kind of cute and don't bite (except the tarantula, which also isn't cute.)

Time to call the exterminator- except I really don't want to kill them- just scare them away.

Maybe it's time to call the psychologist!

Here's a critter we all can like, except maybe if you're the prey.

This one was perched on my friend, Kathy's deck. It stayed quite awhile. I have a couple of hawks living in my eucalyptus trees. There's a nest and, I assume eggs, but they're too high up to see what's going on. I enjoy the hawks but I miss the peacocks that lived at my Tumble Creek house.