Now that we’ve talked about NYE, I’d like to go over the 5 days previous that we spent out at Ocean Haven. Basically, it was great. Soggy and great.
The first day we were there, the sis and I noticed a couple trying to push this thing back into the ocean. It was beautifully futile. The next day, I went and took pictures of it.
Before we left, we decided that we needed to pose with it.
So before the whole Christmas thing got underway, my dad came up to visit. We went to Oak’s Park, which C and I hadn’t been to in ages. By coincidence, they had the organ going. It was totally fantastic.
Here is the locker we kept our stuff in whilst being overcome by insouciance.
(Man, that is so insouciant!)
Here are the beskated feet of me and C.
(Man, those are so beskated!)
We also went to the Portland Art Museum to check out the rather remarkable The Artist’s Touch and the Craftsman’s Hand exhibit. Unfortunately, everything in that exhibit was (understandably) behind glass, so my photos from it are crap. Instead, check out these pictures of “special” babies from the Renaissance.
Now we’re at Ocean Haven again, and I’m sure I’ll have something to say about that soon.
So you may be disappointed to hear this, but the hat and glasses look was not our ultimate intention for the tree. Instead, we did the “normal” thing of putting a bunch of weird trinkets and electric lights on it.
So the cat was pretty interested. . .
Which is how we ended up waking up next morning to the tree having been totally destroyed.
So after waiting like all of a week after Thanksgiving (a record since I moved here) we got a Christmas tree. We decided to get a little living tree that we would be able to enjoy monitoring through the years. We were surprised to also have the opportunity to enjoy his keen fashion sense.
Here’s a picture I took a while ago of Hazel and the cat. If you can’t tell, the book Hazel is reading is “The Fact of a Doorframe” by Adrienne Rich.
