summer at a glance

This entire summer has been a whirl wind. I was lucky enough to travel to NYC in April Cape Cod in June and NYC a few times after that. I was also surprised to see parts of California that I hadn't seen before. In this post I am just showing photographs of the summer with a small bit of info. There is no particular order to things just an at a glance view before I have to admit that fall is here and winter is on the way

drinks with the girls at The Ramp by moonlight

fabulous olive wing back in Hudson NY at Arenskjold

fabulous love seat in Hudson NY at Arenskjold

the best set of chairs in Hudson NY at Arenskjold

the sectional in the basement of Arenskjold in Hudson NY

movie being filmed at night in the LES

Harlem garden

Aspen NY

a view of the Standard from the High Line

a view of Chelsea from the High Line

Fresno figs from my parents tree

Hudson NY at dusk

Carter's studio in Hudson NY

Hudson bouquet

coolest woman in southern California

Palm Springs

photo safari with Cole

Cape Cod view

"Sound Suits" from the Nick Cave exhibit at Yerba Buena

Charlie working on a landscape

Carter in Red Hook studio

Connecticut from the train

Richard on the beach in Cape Cod

window sill in Harlem

Bay to Breakers aftermath

Wolfgang in downtown LA

New Work from Todd Hido in NYC at Bruce Silverstein

detail from Tom Sachs studio tour

Castaneda/Reiman installation at DCKT NYC

David Byrne showed up to Carter's opening at Salon 94

photo I found at a family reunion this summer

fun in the sun with Jason and Cole

flying

windows at Prada NYC

delicious lunch in Brooklyn with Miss Emily

chunk of "iceberg" at the Titanic exhibit in NYC
Limentaur Beach fun


Cole perfecting Ninja moves for Halloween

last beach day of the summer

socal

This is a photo of a woman that I took in HB. You can't tell from this photo but she was perhaps the coolest person I have ever seen. She was taking photographs of surfers the day before the US Open of Surfing started. Perfect jeans, striped shirt and hat. I really wanted to know who she was but chickened out when my chance came to chat her up. I kept wondering if she had ever made an appearance on The Sartorialist blog.

I am back tracking a little today. I am finally publishing a post about a trip to SOCAL that we took at the beginning of the summer. Richard had some work to do down in Huntington Beach and we both had people we wanted to visit in Palm Springs and LA so we took about 5 days and headed out.

dessert before Palm Springs

cabazon dinosaur

My friend Kelsey was in Palm Springs for the weekend so we drove down for the night to join him. We decided to drive through the dessert. I ended up getting caught in a CHP speed trap and now have to pay a $332. fine. The scenary was gorgeous though. I am trying to remember how beautiful it was and not how irritated I was at getting the ticket.

The photos above are from the lobby at our friend Roger's office. We went to see him once we got into LA. I just love how the spirit of old Hollywood glamour pops up in the most unexpected places.

Chicken Boy

While in LA we had dinner in Highland Park. I was a little scared by the landmark over the restaurant but learned later that Chicken Boy is a benevolent landmark. You can read all about it here.

I have quite a few photos of our trip that I uploaded to flickr that you can view if you want more but for now I close with some of the gorgeous flowers that fill up most of Los Angeles in the summer. Anything will grow there and the weather keeps everything thriving.

Thanks for looking!

stephanie's garden wall phase 2

Today we started really digging into the Stephanie wall project. I pulled out my bag of pigments and opened the cans of simulated milk paint that we bought from Olde Century Simulated Milk Paint and we started mixing plaster and paint colors.

The first step was to lay down two distinct layers of plaster. One in a pale gold tone and the other, a dark earth color. Then we outlined a few prominent areas where trees would go.

Richard painted in a light mountain range across the wall and I painted in a nice beeswax color to give the wall some warmth.

We then washed over the bottom brown layer with a darker brown color and started painting in the first layer of trees and bushes.


Towards the end of the day we went back over a few of the darker painted areas with plaster that we will then paint over with lighter bushes and reeds. Above is the last picture of the day. We won't be picking it up again for at least a week as I am off to NYC in the morning.

I hope to be mobile blogging about my trip while I'm away. I am really looking forward to seeing the High Line and spending some time in Hudson. More soon!

Thanks for looking!