Welcome to the Cafe!
Here’s to Tracy, Brinn, Janet, Adastra, Supersoling, and everyone else in Crawford! We are so proud of you!
And without further ado, I bring you pictures from my “field trip” last week (((Thanks for filling in, Damnit Janet!)))
*Isn’t it funny how the view from the Cafe windows keeps changing every day? 🙂
There’s fish in them thar’ waters, too!
And of course, the obligatory Outer Banks beach boy pic:
Please post your vacation pictures here today if you’ve got them!
If you don’t, how about a link to somewhere you’ve been before and want to go back to?
As always, feel free to recommend, unrecommend yesterday’s cafe, click some ads for Boo, and may the 4’s be with you!
But your flag decal won’t get you
Into Heaven any more.
They’re already overcrowded
From your dirty little war.
Now Jesus don’t like killin’
No matter what the reason’s for,
And your flag decal won’t get you
Into Heaven any more.
Soon to be followed by Nickel Creek’s latest CD…
(weep, gnash)
I’m about to pack up the iBook and head for the airport to go to British Columbia. Poor me! All that beautiful scenery. But I really am jealous of adastra that he’s getting to meet supersoling and go up to Crawford.
I’ll check in while I’m gone. Keep up the frog-marching. (You know, Cindy just might be the greatest frog-marcher of all).
Well, you are part of the effort there! Enjoy your trip, and remember to check out the Chihuly if you can! 🙂
Will you check in here at BT while you’re on your trip?
What crystal clear photos! Gorgeous.
Funny you’d dub it Field Trip Friday. About nine months ago two friends and I–two writers, one part-timer, so we can do this–started doing our own Friday Field trips all around the metro area. Friday is our weekend. Every week we spend hours doing something interesting and fun. It is wonderful. Like a mini vacation every week.
Today we’re going to a wrecked neighborhood where a friend of mine runs an organization devoted to rebuilding it. They’re doing fab work with the combined forces of people who live there and people who don’t. We’re going to eat lunch there and then see what’s going on and at least one of us is hoping to be able to pitch in and help somehow.
We’re not always so civic/serious. Last week was the zoo to see a visiting white tiger. (Glad to see animals saved, but there’s that sad feeling, too. . .) Of course the best part of the whole thing has been the joy of the friendship and shared adventure.
So in less than an hour and a half I really am leaving for my own Friday Field Trip!
I love field trip idea…I need to find another writer around here to do something like that with! I’d love to hear more about the neighborhood rebuilding, if you want to swing by the cafe tonight.
It always amazes me how even just a day trip can feel like real vacation, if you pick the right things to do.
I sooo encourage it! You’re completely right about how refreshing even one day can feel if you pick it right. Plus, as a writer, you know that everything is material. 🙂
We’ve. . .gone north to visit river towns, to galleries to see one-time only traveling exhibits, to the newest greatest hot dog stand in town, on a tour of a county crime lab, shopped at four different thrift shops in one afternoon. We got a back stage tour of the new main library. We’ve visited public gardens. We’re going to visit a courthouse and see the state public defender’s office. . .and, always, we eat like pigs.
We’re not able to do vacations these days, but we live in a vacation area so here’s a quick shot from a recent evening’s dog walk at a nearby beach.
You may not see it for a while; image shack is running at full stop this morning.
Another wonderful pic! How is your one-eyed toto doing by now? Adjusted completely?
We be not in Kansas any more, Darrrrrrrrothy!”
He’s back to his 13-year-old chipper self, enforcing house rules about nap times and walks, playing solo catch-the-mouse with his favorite ball just before breakfast each morning, and demanding tummy rubs.
He doesn’t like going out on docks however. Something about walking the plank.
I guess we know what his Halloween costume is…an eye patch!
Happy Friday people!
Just wanted to give you guys a heads-up, I put together a new art blog. The idea is that people can e-mail me images and then I can post them with the idea that people can get feedback about their work.
Thought some people may be interested in that here..(hope that’s true and this isn’t shameless promotion!)
http://www.theartcrit.blogspot.com
Hi Deano, why don’t you post your invitation on my site as well; it is dedicated to mostly non political subjects and would fit in quite well there as well as diaries on the subject..
Link on my tag line.
Ok great. I’m a member there already. :]
There are a lot of great artists here…especially on Saturday mornings. I bet you can get quite a few people who are willing to share!
Just taking a second to stop by the cafe as I am actually leaving my house to day to visit my daughter.
I can’t start the day
without the cafe…
Cabin Girl, your pics are great, looks like you had a good time.
See you all later when I return!!
Have a great day with your daughter! Any special plans?
We had a wonderful trip, btw. Very relaxing, low-key, lots of running, biking, kayaking (you can see my boat in the top pic), swimming and reading at the beach. Totally recharged!
How fun – just yesterday I did an open thread over at MLW about favorite vacation memories. Some good stories there.
http://www.soapblox.net/myleftwing/showDiary.do?diaryId=1328
This year we went to Rocky Mountain National Park (source of many of the photos I’ve posted lately). Love walking the trails – planning to go back next year in fact we enjoyed it so much and found so many things we wanted to do with more time.
We’ve also done family trips to Tucson, Myrtle Beach, Chicago and KC. Great times at each place but….
My favorite all time vacation was last year – Boston/Cooperstown/NYC. BEST Monday of my life was spent on a tour of Fenway – playing pretend catch with my kids while standing on the warning track next to the Green Monster
– then playing real catch with my kids on the ballfields in Central Park and wandering the sheep meadow. PRICELESS.
the kids were JUST a bit worn out after a full day in Central Park – but the frozen gatorade we found at a stand moment’s later perked them right up.
On that trip also visited all the major Boston sights, along with outliers like Walden Pond, Old North Bridge, the Eric Carle Museum of Storybook Art in Amherst (my wife’s favorite part), Dr. Suess sculptures in Springfield, Art museums, Zoos, Ellis Island, walked the Brooklyn Bridge, spent the last day relaxing in Rockefeller Park…. It was a magical trip.
Great pictures! One of my favorite trips was when we went to Cooperstown…loved the Hall of fame, plus we went crystal mining and tadpole-fishing in Herkimer while we were up there.
The Eric Carle museum sounds pretty cool!
I loved dhonig’s…thanks!
I’m from Boston, cool pictures!
Best wishes to all in Crawford, it must be very warm there. Hello to all here. No vacation pics, I’ll be going away soon and hopefully post some. I’m hoping to do some small paintings while away and possibly post those. I must check out the art site.
Hi Boran 2, I want to give the same inviatation to you as Deano, please post your art diaries on my site. I meant to ask you soon, but I apparently forgot…
Thanks…now I am really leaving, doing nothing special Cabin Girl, just visiting and getting a chance to grocery shop, etc.
See y’all later.
Thanks Diane, I’ll do that. Have a good day shopping.
Here’s from a “field trip” I took in June.
My father has lived in Chicagoland for over a dozen years now, and this was the first time we’d done the CAF boat trip. We lucked out with a gorgeous day — apparently their summer has been as brutally hot as a typical summer in DC. This tour is definitely recommended; the docents who run the tour are all retired architects themselves and have some really fascinating commentary.
They also do a great walking tour of the downtown if you haven’t done that yet.
And — this might sound a bit strange — if you haven’t been to the Berghoff and had their creamed spinach, you are missing one of the great culinary treats.
Where I recently spent four giddy days with a group of middle-aged women celebrating a friend’s 50th birthday.
When I turn 50 in a year and a half, I plan to be on a beach swilling boat drinks.
The water is so BLUE!!! Do I have to wait until I turn 50 to go?
Sounds like afun way to celebrate a semi-century!
I’ll invite everyone to come along for my 50th birthday trip. 🙂
the Abbottette and I would come, but apparantly we attract hurricanes like tornadoes to a mobile home…
We sat through Alex last year on our little outer banks island…it had just gone from a tropical storm that morning to a class 2 when it hit the island! About 4-5 feet of water flooded the island, I have pictures of my kids kayaking down the street!
We had the best weather ever this year. Hopefully you’ll have better luck next year, Abbott.
I only get away on long weekends right now…but you’re all invited in for cool evening by the fire and and a cup of hot tea or a glass of wine…
Next vacation isn’t until October whimpers away into the corner… meanwhile the picture is my computer desktop background reminds me why I work
Froggy Bottom Cafe…get away…just don’t sit on the cat…the fireplace end of the sofa is his…
We lived in a mountain hideaway in Strawberry CA one winter-7 miles from the ski lifts! It was so beautiful and quiet there, and the view of Lake Tahoe from the chirlift was unbelievable!
Is your mountain hideaway in that area (if you don’t mind me asking)?
We are about 10 miles north of Mt Lassen park entrance on the north side…
Quiet…we used to do some cross country skiing…now more summer hiking. Not sure if it’s good or bad ~ nearest skiing is about 90 miles away at Mt. Shasta
we went there last year and had a great time hiking. We particularly liked the hike up to the summit of Brokeoff Mountain.
Crimson columbine on the Brokeoff Mountain trail
Three Texas plastic surgeons were playing golf together and discussing surgeries they had performed.
One of them said, “I’m the best plastic surgeon in Texas. A concert pianist lost 7 fingers in an accident. I reattached them, and 8 months later he performed a private concert for the Queen of England.”
One of the others said, “That’s nothing. A young man lost both arms and legs in an accident. I reattached them, and 2 years later he won a gold medal in 5 field events in the Olympics.”
The third surgeon said, “You guys are amateurs. Several years ago a cowboy who was high on cocaine and alcohol rode a horse head-on into a train traveling 80 miles an hour. All I had left to work with was the horse’s ass and a cowboy hat. And now he’s president…!
this evening — planning on attending a San Jose rally in support of Cindy and the Camp Love crew this evening (5pm). The spouse let me sleep in today (though I requested otherwise) knowing I’d need my energy later.
Good thoughts go out to both Suskind and Infidelpig, who are busy working and can’t make it in the Cafe (especially Suskind who is without Internet access…horrors!). Better stick those extra cases of Irish Mist in the warehouse…
Have a great day, folks… 🙂
I can’t wait to see them!
For the past 7 years, I have been taking my vacation at a crazy art festival in the Black Rock Desert in Nevada, called Burning Man (www.burningman.com). I basically created a village for families called KidsVille. My daughter and I can’t go this year because of school, so I invited her best friend from Burning Man to visit us. We are going to Marine World and a water park and taking a few days to go camping in Sonoma at Sugarloaf Ridge State Park. To commemorate my first day of vacation, I had some friends over last night and we had a nice fire in my backyard.
I wish I could post a few pics from past Burning Man events, but sadly, my scanner isn’t working. It’s been a lot of fun and we have seen some amazing works of art there.
and get a beer somewhere? Methinks it’s happy hour time!
How about one of these?
I’m not usually partial to fruity beers, but I’ll give it a go since I’ve been on a peach kick lately…
kinda quiet in here today, eh?
Summer Friday, the big excitement is in Texas…maybe after dinner we’ll see some folks??
someone on Kos just posted that Maxine Waters is headed to Crawford.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/8/12/171125/358
I’m a little perplexed by this. Part of me thinks – good, the more press the better. But the other part of me says, jeez, how come it’s always Waters and Conyers? Don’t get me wrong, they kick ass for standing up all the time, but at some level, they seem to just get lumped in with the rest of us “crazy left wing libruls”. Not to mention, I kinda liked this as a non-partisan, all parents should be upset kinda message.
Am I out of my mind? Ok, wait. Don’t answer that. Of course I am.
I agree 100% with the non-partisan aspect of it just being citizens, not politicians. That said, Conyers and Waters were the only 2 that I thought should go, given that they have been supportive of/worked with Cindy in the past.
I wonder why we don’t have more good representatives looking out for us the way they do…then I read things like Parker’s DLC diary posted today, and know why.
Is it jazz, from over in the lounge?
FBC Friday Night Jazz Jam is now open for your jammin’ pleasure…