4 Jobs I've had:
Custodian... or how I got through college, truly a philosopher's profession
Custodian again... I had 17 different custodial routes actually... long dark hallways late at night
Tour guide...
Substitute teacher... started me thinking about art for children's books
4 Movies I could watch over and over
Jeeves & Wooster
Amadeus
Sense & Sensibility
Cold Comfort Farm
Or any movie with a pastoral estate basically... for escapism's sake.
4 Places I have lived (apart from where I live now)
Denver... that's where I grew up and it still seems as close to home as anywhere, though I've lived in Seattle longest.
2 Manhattans: Manhattan Kansas where I got a driver's license at age 13... and New York City's Manhattan, where I could lean out my window and see the Museum of Natural History down the street.
Washington D.C... that's where I went to high school. Fabulous museums! I'd bus down to the Mall every weekend...
Salt Lake City... that's where I got my degree in English. A part of the world that seems forgotten, fabulous and forbidding....
4 TV shows I love
The Reclaimers (history, travel, antiques & commerce)
Ask This Old House (useful information!)
Mystery... Morse, Miss Marple... anything tweedy & chintzy & intriguing with crunchy gravel drives
Seinfeld. Seinfeld's TV address (West 81st street) was just 2 blocks from my old NYC address.
4 Places I have been for vacation:
Yellowstone National Park, Glacier National Park,
Banff, Lake Saranac, Arches, Zion, Escalante
Dinosaur National Park (rafting down the Green River)
Olympic National Park
Hmmm.... do I detect a pattern here?
I like wild places? I can't afford Paris?
4 Websites I visit every day:
I visit way more than that!
4 Favorite foods:
Cheerios
Mandarin oranges & green tea
Coffee
Salmonburgers with red onions
Anything easy to fix... preferably with a toaster.
4 Places I would rather be:
In a log cabin in the woods
In a log cabin by a lake or snow capped mountain
I always wanted to try one of those gated suburban Shangri-La's... just out of curiosity... island kitchen... decks galore... gigantic yard... 2 acre cedar roof... woods for my backyard.
A farmhouse in Tuscany or Bordeaux... 18th century preferably
Painting at the top is one I did about 10 years ago...
4 comments:
You are going to have to satisfy that need for the log cabin soon... it is haunting you.
Take some tea and easy food and enjoy just being there.
What is the story behind the red chair in the woods?
I did that painting after coming back from a trip to Yellowstone where I saw the paintings of Monte Dolack. He does wonderful nature surrealist paintings.
http://www.dolack.com/
That's the chair I'd like to be able to go and sit in for an hour every day.
Thanks for the link to Monte Dolack. I had not come across his work before. I loved the 'Bears of the World' piece.
Nice idea about the chair too.
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