Sunday Style!

Here's a stylish tourist enjoying the view from the San Clemente pier on our visit to California last month.

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Just a random building downtown, taken last Sunday, which was a very nice day to be downtown.

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Well the world may be going all to hell but at least we still have this view.

International Women’s Day March

On Sunday we went for brunch downtown. As we were leaving, this large gaggle of protestors came marching down the sidewalk. I didn't even realize that there was a protest planned, otherwise I would have participated!

Now You See It, Now You Don't

This is what the weather looked like on Friday, seen from 8th Street looking toward downtown. Twenty four hours later the snow had completely melted away and the sun was shining.

Sunday Style!

My friend Jenn looked extra extra magnificent in a lavender gown last weekend at my mom's 90th birthday tea party. She even wore matching lavender Doc Martens. Love it! 

Elsie Palmer

Behold seventeen year-old Elsie, one of General Palmer's three daughters, in a portrait painted by none other than the great John Singer Sargent around 1889 or 1890. At the time, Palmer was here in Colorado Springs while his wife and daughters were on an extended stay in England.

Sargent is one of my favorite portraitists. His works are generally quite large, even life sized, and Elsie's portrait is no exception. It's part of the permanent collection of the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center and I've always admired it. What you're looking at here is not the actual painting, it's a copy that hangs on the wall in the Palmers' family home, Glen Eyrie Castle, where my mom's birthday celebration was held last weekend.