I thought spring was just around the corner.

Our local Ace Hardware is stocking up on plastic lawnchairs.

The primroses, without any help from us, are starting to blossom. But, as I write this, it is snowing.

I've been absent from this blog because I've been way too busy. A lot of that is because my camera strap sales keep going up. Given this economic environment it's a good problem to have. A very good problem. And then the Epson 3800 17" wide printer has returned. I was doing prints for Don last year but he wasn't able to sell them and he took the printer back. Recently he has hooked up with a gallery in Los Angeles that wants them. These are prints of negatives of Hollywood stars taken mostly in the 1950s. He found them in a studio space he took over in the the early 1970s. They were in a trash bag. He has been trying to find a market for them ever since. It looks like he may have found it and I will be printing them. I've been having to clear out room in the basement for it. That means moving stuff (valuable artifacts all) into a storage unit. This will also give me more room for my straps and my own printing. And then we have been going down to Tacoma weekly to visit Zoe's mom at Western State Hospital. Mostly weekly. Eventually we get to burned out and it slides to a week and a half or two. Western State is trying to get rid of her but she isn't really ready. Zoe has a couple of posts here and here. And tomorrow I pick up several guitars for product photography for a customer. I will try to make posting more regular.