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Posts from the “design” Category

Tonight I’ll sing my songs again, I’ll play the game and pretend . . .

Posted on May 29, 2026

The impetus for this trip was because of an off-handed comment I made to my friend Kurt. I said that I’d sure like to see Paul Simon someday, but that I knew he was getting older, too. I figured that it likely would not happen. Well, Kurt offered to take me to see him. In Copenhagen, Denmark. I just had to get there. So I went. This is the final post of the trip. It was a lovely 9 days in Scandinavia and hopefully not my last trip there. Taking the “bridge” & tunnel from Malmo to Copenhagen. Some good old “leading lines,” as my high-school photography teacher would have said. I always find it strange to drive under the water. After we arrived…

I’ve reason to believe we both will be received in Graceland . . .

Posted on May 3, 2026

More images and thoughts on Sweden . . . . There were many of these EV Volkswagen vans throughout Stockholm . . .. One more! This is one of the food trucks in action from the earlier post. There is something efficient about these vehicles when they are out and about doing their “job.” And of course the Abba Museum. There was also an IKEA museum in another part of Sweden that we unfortunately did not make it to (I would have enjoyed that). This is the Vassa ship at the Vassa Museum. It’s a bit of a long story, but the Cliff’s Notes version is that it sank in the harbor and they pulled it up and have been “restoring” (my word) it…

Basketball & Structures

Posted on October 31, 2025

UO Women’s Basketball is back! We headed to the arena last night for the first game. What I noticed? There are several solid long-range shooters it seems. Should be a fun season. Also, models on the wall in Lawrence Hall for the Structures class. The light and shadows are wonderful. Pre-game warm-ups. Empty arena, new floor with much better contrast than the old one. Structures. Hours of work, and cool designs. The whole wall of ’em.

A weekend in mid-June

Posted on June 16, 2025

It was a whirlwind of a weekend getting Nora to her cousin’s place and Jonah on a flight to Pennsylvania. First, though, was baseball and a walk through the Bellevue Botanical Gardens (a gem of a place where I must spend more time). We arrived early enough to watch batting practice through the fence. Upper deck seats in the outfield show the ballpark’s symmetry. The Mariners played the Cleveland Guardians and the game we went to ended up with a Mariner’s win in the bottom of the 9th with “walk-off” dramatics. My brother came along which made for a lovely evening. The next morning before meeting up with my stepmom, I had some time so I stopped at the Bellevue Botanical Gardens where I…

All the things . . .

Posted on February 13, 2025

Well, not really, but close! My site was corrupted for a bit but is now OK, spent a whole night in the ER with Sara (all is OK), ran some, got some snow and ice and freezing rain, testing out new papers for the large format printers at work, a few ants in the place, plus the worries and worries and worries of so much and many . . . . Ants. They erupted from a wall which is unusual for winter time, here. Normally they are a summer season event in our place and even though with the cold I sure wish it could be a bit of summer, these critters were not really welcome. This is a beautiful story of grief, written…