The Catalpas are covered with patches lovely moss and in some places ferns are growing. These are some of the heavy/dead wood portions. I see a new terrarium in the near future.

Yesterday, I arrived downtown 40 minutes before I had to start my day gig (I tend to get paranoid about being tardy).  A nice soy cap and a Voodoo doughnut from Stumptown sounded like a nice way to pass the time. When we lived downtown we used to take coffee and sweet treat “breaks”. We would always leave Stumptown with our clothes smelling like coffee and our minds and bodies feeling a little cray-cray.  It was nice. On my lunch break I ran a few errands and stopped in to Anthropologie to do a little window shopping, perhaps find a cute dress and some house-ware goodness.  As soon as I walked in I fell in LOVE with the Ostrage display. I couldn’t get over how large and cool it looked up close.  Anthropologie has pretty fantastic windows and visual.

The day before yesterday, we had the pine tree worked on. Deadwood, broken branches and annoying limbs where removed. Although, this tree provides us with great shade in the summer and huge pine cones, it dumps pounds and pounds of never ending needles…and is destroying the retaining wall, sidewalk, walkway…just saying 

Yesterday the power went out in parts of downtown Portland, my day gig being one of them. Some of the crew was sent home early and I got to enjoy a chilly afternoon by hitting up some thrift shops in NW and in St. John’s.  I have master plans for these goodies, stay tuned.