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Thursday, February 14th, 2008
Valentine Red Room
• HAPPY VALENTINES DAY •
• Here’s a very red room we stayed in last August at The Madonna Inn in San Luis Obispo, California. They named it the Tack Room. I had red leather wall covering, red leather bedspreads, red stained wood walls, pink marble pedestal sinks, and lots more red stuff.
I wonder […]
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Thursday, April 19th, 2007
Marion Peck Opening Preview at Billy Shire Gallery
• Soft Paintings for Gentle People •
Marion Peck’s opening at The Billy Shire Fine Arts Gallery
on April 13, 2007 featured this fantastic painting…
Young Lord Oliver - Marion Peck - 2007 - Oil on canvas - 67″ x 97″ framed
T0 SEE LOTS MORE PHOTOS we took […]
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Wednesday, April 4th, 2007
Pimp My Crib! Russian Gangster Builds World’s Tallest Log Cabin ?
One-time Russian gangster Nikolai Sutyagin’s home is certainly unusual. The eccentric former convict’s seemingly accidental 15-year project begun in 1992 stands 13 floors, 144 feet high. He claims he was only intending to build a two-story house - larger than those of his neighbours to reflect his position as the city’s richest man.
Read […]
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Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007
Travel Photos and Capturing a Personal Vision
I’m a sucker for travel slideshows and creative documentation of people and places. Stephen Cysewski has created an intriguing personal vision in his “Wandering” travelogs. When viewing in particular his “Wandering in Seattle” I feel like a fly on the wall viewing photos taken years ago in Seattle giving it a unique historic […]
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Sunday, March 18th, 2007
Desdemona’s Rocket Ship / The Cosmic Muffin
This boat, made from a plane, reminiscent of a mobile home gone houseboat, has a rich history as a Boeing 307 Stratoliner from the 1930’s and historic connections to an unlikely pair of characters, Howard Hughes and Jimmy Buffett. Read more about Desdemona’s Rocket Ship / The Cosmic Muffin here.
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