a quiet thanksgiving

with our families spread out across the country and no money for travel, we opted for a quiet thanksgiving together this year. if the point was to be overstuffed, we certainly succeeded, even without the traditional turkey: appetizers, us eating our appetizers all gone, a bacon wrapped fig, half eaten, is really quite beautiful (unfortunately our recipe was not as amazing as our inspiration from Julia's thanksgiving last year), thanksgiving dinner: butternut squash soup, roasted cauliflower and polenta vegetable bake. overall, a quiet relaxing day full of napping, reading and netflix. 

day in claremont

we went to claremont together on tuesday because tina's usual tuesday classes were cancelled this week. the first two images are of joe's paintings in the administration offices of CGU (a year long show curated by David Pagel of CGU students and staff), then joe in his studio, and finally an image lifted from the restaurant website where we had lunch, a place called the back abbey where they serve burgers and beer from around the world. 

3rd anniversary

3 years. 3 pictures. 3 places. 

lately

a few highlights of our life lately: Joe is leading a graduate discussion group at Claremont, by far the most popular of available groups, on the death of painting...heres the sign up sheet as evidence of his popularity, an image from tina's collaborative art exhibition called 'pataphor (you can see a video of the show on her blog here), a quick shot of Tina's work from the advancement show earlier in October, Joe's studio, we had the opportunity to see Lisa and Osha briefly, a few weeks back, when they were visiting Long Beach. This is Osha, a bit bored, in Tina's studio.