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Yesterday's last lecture of the day was by Jeff Hummel, MD, who had been the medical director of Medex when I was there in 1977/78. He was talking about patient medical Qualis, including training physicians in the model. It was good to see him and he really looks the same age that he did thirty years ago.

So, on my recent forays to Whole Foods up the street from Ruth, I found a fruit that I had never seen before...blue velvet apricots. They taste just like regular apricots but they are a muted grey blue on the outside with a rich golden fruit whith red overtones on the inside.

I had a wonderful visit with Katie and Ray Honerlah on Monday evening. They purchased another one of their famous fixer uppers on Magnolia with a sliver view of the sound. When they bought the house there was only one tree in the front yard and nothing in the back. It is now a gradener's paradise filled with, among other things, the most interesting Jdifferent varieties of Japanese maples. They have created three different sitting areas in their back yard. The inside of the house has Katie's signature touches. The colors are soothing shades of green. The art is wonderful and her needlepoint is scattered throughout the house...those pieces were like visiting old friends.

Ray prepared dinner...a shrimp stirfry with basmati rice and fresh pineapple for desert. I had a wonderful time. They are going to be in Portland for the next few days and will be joining me at the riverhouse for brunch on Saturday.

It was so exciting to see them that I forgot to take any pictures.

This morning I was reading an article on the Andy Warhol show at the Brooklyn Museum. It covers the last ten years of his life as an artist. It is thought that he produced over 3500 works during this period of time. It is hard for me to imagine that level of productivity! He moved away from much of the pop art that had brought him fame in the 60's and 70's and went back to his earlier roots. It is felt that some of his best work was produced during this period of time but most of it relatively unknown.

Although if I am being honest, here is the full picture.

And here is my 7:00AM arrival in one of my favorite cities.

Here is the leaving part.

I have an hour until my next class so thought I would catch up here. I had a wonderful time with Becca and Gail in Seabeck. We ate well. I won at cards...really, how much better can it get, you ask? Well, I personally love to take the ferry more than almost anyone that I know. Yeah, yeah, yeah...you have to wait in long lines, sometimes for two or more ferries and it costs a bucketload. But really, there is something about that transition across life's continuum from work to home and back again that I love. The cats were not at all impressed that I was leaving.

There were a half dozen photographers with HUGE lenses getting remarkable pictures. The one that got away wqs an eagle that all of a suddengot territorial and took off after a great blue heron right in front of us but I missed the shot.

I brought the wrong camera to capture these scenes the best.