We spent a fine afternoon up at Hosmer Lake with my folks, and just made it back to the cars as the skies opened up and the rain came down in torrents. Happy Father's Day!

A few new pieces up in the Client Work section...

Tumalo Creek has a section above Shevlin park that I'd never seen, so Evad and I hiked up there this morning to check it out. It's a beautiful hike, with fantastic cliffs and rock formations along the canyon walls. We're heading up to Hosmer Lake tomorrow to do some canoeing with my folks. Hopefully this weather will start to feel a bit more like summer soon.

Been working on some pretty fun projects. I have been working with TBD Advertising here in Bend quite a bit, and they offered me the chance to design the Jubelale packaging this year, almost realizing one of my life goals. Unfortunately I didn't get to do the illustration, but there's always next year. I've also been working on some illustrated tee designs for Akadia. I'll post those when they are available.

And now, the weekend warrior update. Brought you by:

Jen and I enjoyed a three day weekend at the beach with our good friends Hillary and Andy. Thanks so much for the hospitality and letting us crash the beach house once again. We fished the Trask river on Saturday, and we all got lucky with the sea-run cutthroats. We enjoyed some hard core Jenga action, and went crabbin' on Sunday. The sun was hot, the bait was ripe, and we had a blast. I got new carpet in the drift boat on Monday, and she's looking good. Just finishing up re-coating the bottom and I think we're going to take her out on Monday.

It's been a whirlwind couple of weeks, to say the least. A heartfelt thanks to all my wonderful clients, for keeping me really busy. Been drawing, designing, building, organizing, and playing. Here's some of the highlights. A few weeks ago I met up with a few good friends and we floated the Deschutes for our sometimes annual salmonfly trip. Three blissful days of watching Eddie catch trout, listening to the river flow, waving at locomotives, scouting for rocks, and ducking poison oak. Photos:

Jen and I also got to take the canoe out the other day for the first time. It was a little tippy with evad. But he soon figured out that he was going to get wet if he moved, and we made the circumnavigation of Sparks Lake without any significant mishaps.

In the meantime, I finished the bathroom and built a workbench in the garage.

Nick and Sally came out to visit this weekend, and Nick and I made an attempt at snowboarding Broken Top. Of course it was sunny and clear for 5 days before our trip, but on our hike in Saturday night, it started to cloud over and we got about an inch of snow in the morning. It was beautiful to see all the fresh snow, but unfortunately, visibility was shot, and we could only climb to the foot of the face we had intended to ride. We still got some nice turns down to camp, but the we'll have to wait for another day to shred the steeper lines. The last picture is of Nick standing right in front of the west face of Broken Top. Not that you can tell.

Well, back at it. Updates of recent work coming soon.