Chrissy's Photo A Day

  The Bill Baggett painting my mother gave me, now hanging over my bed. Isn't it lovely? I grew up with this painting in our house, an...

  Sophie and Nala. xxxooo Aza is in Va Beach today with Dan to give the kitties to Tom and retrieve all of Aza's stuff and bring it ho...

Yes, this is my son vacuuming my bedroom floor while I lay sick in bed. I got me some good kids.

    I felt SO sick today. Head colds are just the worst! Today Aza repaired the barn-look (if you look carefully you can see the rough loo...

    Friday. Busy day, at work until 6:30 with a graduate student-meets-faculty thing. Started getting a cold. Aza and I worked on "gl...

  I taught my first classes of the semester today: a section of elementary science methods and a section of middle school science methods. ...

  Aza surprised me after a very hard day of work- she is painting my bedroom! She is such a sweetie. And the wooden wall you see here is go...

  Squirt and Nala chillin' together... Photo credit: Aza

      Sophie and Nala, photo credits: Aza

    Horses in town, Dominoes this evening.

  What a way to welcome me back to work!

  Mt. St. Helens... view from the air   Mt. Hood... view from the air A morning spent dealing with a bike in a box, and then a long day...

  View of the ocean from our hotel.   This is the boardwalk in Seaside. Our hotel is on the right.   The kids all together after dinner ...

Spent all day inside. Skipped a session so I could actually SEE Seaside. Beautiful! I walked south along the boardwalk. Dinner tonight was a...

We packed up and cleaned up and left Yachats today around noon. Stopped at the Oregon State marine science center for a couple hours on our ...

Jes is such an amazing cook. She offered to cook dinner and insisted on making two quiches - one cheeseless for me. This is it- tomatoes, sa...

        A view of our house- the brown one next to the amazing garden... We got up at sunrise to go see the tide pools at VERY low tide...

        We took a ride up the coast to see a few things- the Sea Lion Caves (which contained four sea lions) and a few other interesting...

      Aza and I went for a walk along the beach together this morning. We discovered some tide pools and saw sea stars, sea anenomes, and...

    This evening the sunset was beautiful. We cooked dinner at the house- grilled out- and then played a hilarious game of Apples to Apple...

View from our beach house in Yachats, Oregon!

All my children! In one place! This taken just after a trip to Powell Bookstore.

We went to the Japanese garden in Portland today. Everything was so pretty and refined.

Turbulent flight into Salt Lake City, so much so that I cried when we landed. This is the sky. Oh, and I'm not in the south anymore. Ins...

    The sunroom is done. Note the painted ceiling and how it mirrors the dark slate of the floor. The brick wall is no longer pink, but ...

    Busy week accomplishing so many things before our big trip to Oregon. What's a week without a little painting project? Aza painted...

    Wonderful visit today with my friend Moonie and her husband and little girl. Their daughter played with my niece, my dog, and a frog! ...

On our way out into the countryside for a wedding of Dan's cousin.  Dan gives me a funny look outside the reception hall. Hmmmm......