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white girl keep tahoe blues

My mantra yesterday "Dark green, light green, turqoise, bright turqoise, dark blue." The moon, bats, the smell of cedar, the black and white speckled granite rocks and clear, cold water. Oh Tahoe, how I adore you! I have cabin fever--meaning why the haven't we bought a cabin already? How do people do it? It's only money, right? How do you save like, $60,000 for a down payment? Like losing weight, it seems impossible. And yet, I want a cabin! I guess I don't want it bad enough or I would have done it already? Ugh! Light green, dark green, turqoise, bright turqoise, dark blue.

honey run covered bridge on butte creek

Visiting the ancestral homeland.

packing to do's: bake apple turnovers

Get the dog groomed so she's socially acceptable for the lovely people who will pet sit her.
Feed the neighbor's cats.
Find Stefan's passport.
"Mom, how much hair gel can I take?"
Where are we going when we land?
Who is picking us up three days later?
Get Peace Corps project to a point where I can hand off.
Figure out how to get to the airport.
Make two week's worth of dog food.
Clean paint brushes.
Where is my bathing suit?

I don't have enough going on right before we leave the country for five weeks, thought I'd do some baking.

is it or isn't it?

Headed out in the gorgeous sunshine to run errands, stopped by the Peasant Musuem flea market--I bet you can't wait to get an angel icon from me! In a stack of paintings I found this drawing by Tia Peltz. She did a lot of ink on paper and I took the frame apart to make sure it wasn't just a xerox copy. This website has a few similar for sale, framed the same. Maybe someone else draws and signs Tia Peltz's name? She died in '99 and recently Cotrocen Palace hosted an solo exhibition. I only know about her because of the show we did at the Embassy about women Jewish artists. Romanians love her because she illustrated many of the childrens books they grew up with.

This is her line quality and her subject matter--maybe the guy at the flea market will really start cranking them out now that he found an easy mark. He wanted 150 RON, pointing out that the frame was very clean and nice, and that there is a numbered sticker on the back, and you know how important that is. (?) I said 50, and we agreed on 100. Tia Peltz or not, I like it, it reminds me a little of Camille, and it didn't cost a lot. There was an old angel painting with a really pretty blue background that cost more than the Tia Peltz. But you know how Peter feels about religious art.