Beautiful conversations, people, places, design+photography
“Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing.
Making your unknown known is the important thing.” – Georgia O’Keeffe
Make the art your heart tells you.
Georgia O’Keeffe, 1887-1986
Photography by Alfred Stieglitz
Horses Skull with Pink Rose, 1931
Georgia O’Keeffe
Just when you think there is nothing new under the sun, discoveries come out of the blue. This was literally the case for scientists who discovered a new blue pigment. Researchers at Oregon State University have patented a blue pigment that is environmentally friendly and nontoxic. This is good news, because many inorganic blues are toxic or cause cancer, such as Prussian blue, cobalt blue, or ultramarine blue.
Read more about here.
Parrot (yes it’s real) spied in the Portland Saturday Market.
Beautiful creature in stunning blue
Blue Painting, Wassily Kandinsky
Il Riccio Restaurant, Island of Capri, Italy
A website for forward thinking creative artists.
Eternal Elegance, Photography Andrew Chan
One of the plights of urban neighborhoods is change
which means some businesses survive and some die.
Especially when it comes to old cafes. The scruffier
version of the B&O is MIA on Capitol Hill and before
that was the Still Life Cafe in Fremont. Many moons
ago it was my favorite haunt along with the B&O but
alas it no longer exists. But I did capture this
wonderful mural as a tribute and it’s nice to know
I wasn’t the only one missing it. It reflected the older.
grungier, friendlier, and cheaper side of Fremont.
Still Life Cafe Mural
More images from the Fremont Fair.
Couldn’t have said it better myself.
HAPPY SUMMER SOLSTICE, may all days
be sunny, happy, and long…
And of course the famous (or perhaps infamous) Fremont Troll….
As mentioned in a previous post, Cascade Neighborhood also
has some celebrated new additions along with some gems.
Sandwiched between the sleek new Amazon.com buildings
and the Cascade Park is a new building with some wonderful
sculptures reminiscent of logs. I don’t know the official
name of the sculptures but I like to call them the
Rainbow Logs.
Very cool industrial style bench made with recycled materials.
Simply beautiful.
I think I might need one of these…very cool.
Joyful paintings by Amsterdam-based artist and designer, Mariska Meijers.
Her love of color and pattern with interior vignettes is wonderful.
Her blog is delightful as well.
Beautiful Musings 