Thanksgiving in New York this year. Leaving tomorrow. Hoping to see...well, so much!

Happy Thanksgiving week to all~
and thanks to everyone who stops by here and encourages the little Raccoon&Rain endeavor.

Can't wait for Camilla Engman's 2010 Calendar (above)...and then there's Ilee's too.

ViDeO from last night's show...it kicked

shameless plug time: Seattle Rock Orchestra's Arcade Fire/Exohxo show tonight at the Fremont Abbey. Click to read what the paper says. It's gonna be good.

photo of Exohxo via Cake Spy

top, bashful blooming cactus from willynillywaterlilly
bottom, wee terrariums from TortoiseLovesDonkey


and then...run don't walk [in the figurative sense] to McSweeney's Miles Davis's Container Gardening Tips.

Knocked my socks off.

I stumbled across My Parents Were Awesome. The thing is...these people really do seem awesome. There's a magnetism in these pictures of couples or just a mom or dad, they're the most important people in the lives of someone.