Archive for April, 2008
Thursday, April 10th, 2008
Dressed Up
Virginia Karpinski (Warner) and Viola Karpinski, in
back yard of St. Joseph’s Ave. house
When I was growing up I aways heard from my mother that her family was very poor. But for being so poor, they were very well dressed. This pic dates from the late1940s or early 1950s. Grandmom Karpinski has on a fussy round hat with [...]
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
Local Art: Roadrunners, Spacemen, and Sgt. Pepper
For being a city with such inclement weather much of the time, Seattle has a lot of outdoor art. Not only in public spaces, but also on private property. The owner of this car repair shop in the Northgate neighborhood has used discarded car parts to create original sculptures. The first one reminds me of the Roadrunner from the [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in Art, Personal news by Tracy
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
Our States of Life
Over the years, I’ve visited almost half of the 50 states. (Driving through counts, airport transfers do not. So says I, in an arbitrary decision. If airports were valid, I’d add Texas, Michigan, and Colorado.) Most of them are in the north, curving around to the west and southwest.
This site lets you create your own. I have [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in Amusing timewaster by Tracy
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
Dragon Girl
For a time in 6th and 7th grades I was obsessed with drawing dragons. Not the fire-breathing ones of yore, but young, svelte, sexy dragon girls wearing red-hot outfits that would put Cher to shame. I drew these obsessively, filling hundreds of notebook pages. Showgirl headpieces, platform shoes, long sweeping skirts, feathers, bracelets, bangles, beads, [...]
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
First Communion
Being from a Catholic family, April was a most momentous month for us young ones reaching the age of 6 or so. Because that meant it was time for that most holy and solemn of ceremonies… First Communion! The timing always seemed to coincide with the cherry blossoms.
Janine DeBolt (Warner) in communion dress,
in Stacy Park in Trenton, 1954
I don’t remember [...]
