My New Years Trip Mt Rainier, Mt Baker, Kingston Ferry

Hurricane Ridge

Mt. Rainier

I'm cultivating chrysanthemums

Here is a mum I'm  growing.

I have other mums too..

If you're interested, write to me

jerez598atgmaildot.com

You must think I live on a ferry...,-)

White Wisteria in Mukilteo

Today's trip to Leavenworth via Stevens Pass

And a river stop.

Harem, The Harvard Exit Theatre, The Deluxe Bar and Grill, Kobo Gallery, Adventure Travel, Quest Books, and Roy Street Coffee and Tea.

Opening tonight at Harem in Seattle on Capitol Hill.

If you need a cool special gift for Christmas, be sure to go to Harem.

Victoria knows 'just what I like!" hint hint..

If you do, I promise I'll be a good girl next year! '-)

I promise!




That cut work bedspread with mirrors from India.. I love love!!

And some Moroccan lamps and Tagines are great too..I want the tagine designed for soups,, it;s very rounded.

Dar Salam has some stuff on consignment here. He closed up, was at Pike Place!

Sylvia Beach Hotel

Just back from Oregon, Newport, and kickin around Nye Beach..
My Favorite place to go and write and be inspired is the Sylvia Beach Hotel, each of 20 rooms designed to fit a famous author to a T.. with so much charm it oozes inspiration all over the Pacific Coast..

I ran out of charge on my phone, so only got two rooms, here's a preview.. I hope to go back asap to write for a few weeks, Universe willing..

This is Colettes Room, She wrote Gigi, there are rooms for Twain, and Thoreau, and Shakespeare, and so many wonderful authors..Colette is 193.00 a night. I only need 2 weeks..:)

Collection continued....

The beautiful bowl from Morocco. I just have to go to Morocco..isn't this bowl just beautiful?

And it's huge!

Peony's, my garden

Stained Glass, Jim Wittstruck, shells from Gulf Coast..

Bier Horn, Finland

Tablecloth, Goodwill..

My collections include buttons, not just these in jars, but I have a case of them, and a display case as well.

These others jars are called , A Walk down so and so Beach,

Here I have; a walk down the Sea Of Japan, Half Moon Bay, Gulf Of Mexico, Rialto Beach, Ruby Beach, 1 St Beach, etc etc.

I have half a purple spaceman from the sea of Japan mixed with it's black sand and some sea shells...I love the space man, a real find. Halfmoon Bay has a Mattel car in it.

Kim gave that to me when I visited her in San Francisco, eons back.

I'm the one who insisted she go interview for that job in SF. I remember she didn't want to move again, but now, she has a great career here in Washington, and lives one town away.

The B&W bowl was made by my friend Martha, (Minnesota) and the plate is Mexican Folk art.

The other two are shells. I do have a small rare shell collection.

A Mexican doll, and a couch from Goodwill for her to sit upon..

Gold Lotus Pods in a beautiful Japanese bowl from Yumiko.

This folklore Angel is by an American artist, I'd have to look up his name, well, it's on her boot I think.

I just love it.. Dorothy gave this to me.

See her cowboy boots? She has a stringer of fish.