Raving Amicks

Neal Creek is almost frozen over and Hood River is like 99% frozen over. My grapefruit trees are in the garage loving the space heater. When it’s the coldest, it’s probably like 35 degrees aroud the trees.

I had the opportunity to design the poster for a show my painting class is putting on called “LOW DEFINITION”. Our paintings reference the Chuck Close style (abstraction via pixelation).

On Tues. am (10/13) it snowed and stuck here at the house. Melted after about an hour, but it’s a harbinger of winter. (Harbinger was a character in what movie)?

A couple weekends ago I was scheduled to participate in a triathlon with Tatsuya Kee a long time friend, team-mate, and fellow lifeguard and another friend. The person doing the running leg backed out and then Trevor Whittle said he would do it. After a second fall out with Trevor backing out as well I said to hell with it I’ll do it if no one else. But then I realized, I know a great runner that would love to do this, since he hasn’t ran competively in some years now, who else than Hughie my dad. So I called dad and sure enough he was on board.
All said and done it was a great race!

My apple trees are full of apples. Most are blemish and bug free, even though they are organic. One is a Braeburn and the other is a Fuji (although I can’t tell which is which).

Not a great picture (I was in the car driving) of a dawn rainbow south of Portland . Never seen anything like this (of course, I’m not up at dawn very often). It was just beginning to get light (6:32 am) and the sun wasn’t even visible. What you don’t see is that the rainbow was complete. Amazing!