More photos from Simon & a road trip with Paolo.

Super smart Auntie Liz brought her little digital with us to dinner Friday night at Anthony's.  Simon assumed the photographer duties with his wonderful artistic eye. I love watching him with the camera. He is so very serious.

And it totally kept him busy while waiting for our dinner. That was key.

I drove home early yesterday morning with one of my best lifetime buddies Paolo. He had come with Mom, Simon and I to the zoo and museum on Friday and had the brilliant idea to drive down to Eugene with me and then fly home. He works for Alaska Airlines so he can do that sort of thing on a whim (nice, huh?). It was awesome. We caught up, chatted about life & creativity & writing and just basically had the best time. Made a little detour trip to Target (video iPod purchsed), drank BLACK coffee, and then visited the Lane County Farmer's Market (quintessential Eugene) when we got into town. If that's not an artist's date I don't know what is...

Farmer's Markets are such a cool place to observe stuff. The colors and the colorful people make great subjects. We walked around, ate some pizza, and headed back to my place before going to the airport.

Such a wonderful, refreshing few days. Tomorrow morning I head to Salt Lake for a couple days of meetings and then on to Houston for Carrie's wedding. Can't wait for that!

Hoping to get through a bunch of emails today too - so if you contacted me recently I will be in touch.