http://www.caitlinburke.com Thu, 01 Jan 2009 19:43:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en   At the Copper Vine, on Capitol Hill in Seattle. http://www.caitlinburke.com/2009/01/01/contemplating-the-future/ http://www.caitlinburke.com/2008/12/31/happy-new-year/ My stepfather started raising chickens and ducks in the yard a few years ago, and now he has a lively and growing poultry operation offsite. He added turkeys this year - we ate 2 at Thanksgiving, also a duck. (They were delicious!) My stepfather has always loved eggs as ... http://www.caitlinburke.com/2008/12/29/poulterers-dozen/   Snow in Seattle is fun and everything, but not if you have to go anywhere or do anything. http://www.caitlinburke.com/2008/12/28/getting-back-to-normal/ Seattle usually gets a snowstorm that washes away in a couple of days, maybe once or twice in a winter. Occasionally, it's a lot of snow + a cold system that keeps it on the ground for a week. This year it was multiple storms in quick succession with occasional, ... http://www.caitlinburke.com/2008/12/27/snowed-in/ http://www.caitlinburke.com/2008/12/26/happy-holidays/ ... we don't get autumn leaves in San Francisco Mind you, there's another tree in flower about 30 feet from this one. http://www.caitlinburke.com/2008/12/16/and-people-say/ http://www.caitlinburke.com/2008/12/15/gate-and-lamp/ Looking through the photo gallery on my phone last night, I came across this picture I took on Halloween. http://www.caitlinburke.com/2008/12/02/full-house/ It's getting to be winter-festival time, whether that means celebrating a few more minutes of sun or a special birthday, or just the transition from one major calendar period to another. And for some reason, I'm thinking about summertime. http://www.caitlinburke.com/2008/11/30/winter-festival/ I've been more watching than doing lately. Little by little I'll get back to some doing, though. http://www.caitlinburke.com/2008/11/29/spectating/ One turkey in the oven, another headed for the deep fryer, about to start the potatoes http://www.caitlinburke.com/2008/11/27/thanksgiving-begins/ I have mixed feelings about hairless cats. The result of careful breeding of cats that were hairless as result of a spontaneous mutation, the breed itself strikes me as a demonstration of man's willingness to sustain something that should not be. Fans of the breed tout its "natural mutation" ... http://www.caitlinburke.com/2008/11/25/hairless/ http://www.caitlinburke.com/2008/11/24/new-hat/ Bobby Chui is an illustrator with an adorable worldview: As a person who has grown up being presented with skeptical, intellectual owls, it's that wide-eyed raptor's deep lean (with careful tail counterbalance) that charms me most in this illustration. But Chui isn't limited by sentimentality. I actually dislike this Yeti-Bunny picture, which ... http://www.caitlinburke.com/2008/11/22/cute-saturday/ "Ever since I can remember, I've been troubled by the state of things." That's how Mark Bryan begins his artist statement. I read it after looking through a couple dozen images of his work, and it tied some things together for me. Bryan's work spans politics, popular culture, social commentary, ... http://www.caitlinburke.com/2008/11/19/mark-bryan/ Google has just launched a service hosting images from LIFE magazine, back to about ... forever! "Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and ... http://www.caitlinburke.com/2008/11/18/resurrections/ The incomparable Goopy is beginning a new Flickr feature: Monkey Monday! Lucky for us, he's starting early! See more wonderful illustrations of animals and their kin, the simple pleasures of life, strange new characters, and food for thought - and more at the Goopymart Flickr stream. http://www.caitlinburke.com/2008/11/16/monkey-mondays/ Flickr is having load problems - which means that just about all the images on my blog are inaccessible. They hope to have things smoothed out soon. I hope they do, too! Update: Yay! They did! http://www.caitlinburke.com/2008/11/07/flickr-problems/ The other day I overheard someone quoting "really like your peaches, wanna shake your tree," and it's been going through my head ever since. Really just because it's funny. Then I saw this article in the New York Times about William Eggleston's work, illustrated with the photo above, which now ... http://www.caitlinburke.com/2008/11/06/peaches/ I've been taking a lot of bike rides at lunchtime this year. I nip out to Fort Point and back - about 10 miles round trip. Sometimes I bring a camera, because there are lots of birds on that route, but sometimes all I have is my phone - which ... http://www.caitlinburke.com/2008/11/05/bay-rainbow/ Congratulations to Senator - President-elect - Obama! http://www.caitlinburke.com/2008/11/04/congratulations/ I am at an old boyfriend's parents' place. They've died, and I've inherited everything. He and I are no longer speaking - we were never all that close, and we don't have anything to say. As I walk through the house, I can't think why I've inherited. The house is ... http://www.caitlinburke.com/2008/11/03/last-dream-of-the-night/ Several years ago, I found a portfolio of work by Bri Hermanson and fell in love with her viscerally effective work. Political, social, literary, epic, she's used her woodcut-like technique and wonderful sense of muted, blocky color to tackle the World Trade Center bombing, the phenomenon of McDonald's, and, recently ... http://www.caitlinburke.com/2008/11/02/bri-hermanson/ The city calls for green. The green calls for civilization. I have been pretty tired this week, getting back to work and finishing processing my pictures, so I'm really only halfway through the last batch. My last full day in China involved a stop in SuZhou, a beautiful little town with ... http://www.caitlinburke.com/2008/10/30/nature-and-civilization/