Pride and joy

The Sunflower of my life. ❤️

Iconic Canadian artist Emily Carr with her monkey Woo and her dog Billie.

Inside and outside the Royal BC Museum in Victoria BC🇨🇦🍁

Breast cancer strikes men, too. My husband is one of them www.seattletimes.com/opinion/brea...

On your knees!

Sturgeon Moon glade from my Vashon deck.

Fragrant Cloud Rose. First developed in Germany by Mathias Tantau Jr in 1963 in Germany. Introduced in the US in 1968. I wish you could smell it.

Photo from my deck on Vashon Island

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Traditional Vashon power boat race around the island at 5 am on July 4th

Fragrant Cloud roses smell divine!

Hanna Hirsch Paulo at the National Museum of Stockholm.

At the 23rd International Strindberg Conference at Lund University. The house at Grönegatan 8 where August Strindberg wrote his autobiographical novel Inferno May 3 to June 25, 1897.

Art Auction at Bukowskis in Stockholm.

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What Is Swedish Culture? An Attempt to Answer Stirs Debate. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/26/a...

Silver Medal for Thunder (16 yo) at Emerald City Classic Volleyball Tournament! Congrats! 🎊

Emerald City Classic

Just curious, what’s the tariff on a $400 million jet from Qatar?

The new ICE budget proposal is going from 9 billion to 90 billion! Can you say Gestapo boys and girls.

We need more Norwegian engineers in this country www.google.com/gasearch?q=n...

Nordic Goddesses at the Nordic Museum Gala Auction at the Hyatt Regency in Seattle.

Visual delight on Vashon

Bee on my Cosmic Crisp apple blossom! I will get lots of apples in my Vashon orchard this year!

Excited puppy on the ferry to Vashon.

At the National Nordic Museum: The Poetry of Architecture, radical, brutal. Great introductory lecture by UW Architecture Professor Peter Cohan.

Ah! The Impressionists at the Art Institute of Chicago!

“The Bean” (Cloud Gate) by Amish Kapoor in the Millennium Park in Chicago, inspired by liquid mercury.

Marc Chagall’s America Windows, at the Art Institute of Chicago, celebrating the arts: music, literature, theater and dance.

This is big! National Qualifier. Go #31!

Good morning Vashon!

The university refused to make changes it said would "dictate what private universities can teach" and "whom they can admit and hire," among other things.

This. Write your name in the history books on the right side of the ledger.

My favorite eating fresh apple: “Williams Pride” now in bloom. Now I need some bees!

At Seattle Art Museum: Ai Weiwei Rebel. Mini Lego brick recreation of Munch’s The Scream. Creativity to share your voice and inspire change.

Trump didn’t think any of this through and his Advisers are incompetent, they are doing unconscionable damage…

🙌🏼 I’m not sure who had the amazing idea to invite this constitutional lawyer to a senate hearing that *intended* to prove Biden colluded with Meta to censor conservatives. But she took the opportunity to speak truth to power ✊🏼 on the hypocrite 👑 KING OF FREE SPEECH, Donald Trump, himself. 👏🏼 Brava!

HRH Prince Carl-Phillip of Sweden on a tour to Seattle to promote the awareness of dyslexia.

“I could not believe that the national-security leadership of the U.S. would communicate on Signal about imminent war plans. I also could not believe that the national security adviser to the president would be so reckless as to include the editor in chief of The Atlantic in such discussions.”

Spring is late and rainy on Vashon. Hoping for warmth and sunshine.

Proud volleyball grandma!

Grand Opening of Anne-Karin Furunes’ “Illuminating Nordic Archives” at the National Nordic Museum in Seattle. “pixelated political perspectives” (cascadepbs.org by Brandan Davis) on Sami and Svalbard archival photos.