From our family to yours, Happy New Year and bonne année!

For the last few weeks, my oldest son, Jacques-Charles, has been capturing images of Winnetka in preparation for the Winnetka Sidewalk Sale on Friday, July 16th and Saturday July 17th. He will be selling his 11″x14″, 8″x10″, 8″x8″, 6″x8″, 5″x7″, and 4″x6″ images mounted in 10″x10″, 11″x14″, and 16″x20″ Archival Museum Quality Mats ready to put in a frame.

Below are some of the images available for purchase at the Sidewalk Sale. If you are interested in viewing Jacques-Charles’ work or purchasing a print (or two), please come early as quantities are limited.

I said a lot of things were brewing for 2010… Well… Our fourth little one as been brewing for a while and will join us at the beginning of March (or sooner…).

We know he’s a little boy and are looking for a name so feel free to help us out with suggestions. We have three criteria:

1) the name has to be comprised of “two names” separated by a hyphen (just like mine, Jean-Rene, and that of my three other little ones: Jacques-Charles, Natalie-Soleil, and Pierre-Andre);
2) the name obviously has to have a French ring to it;
3) the name should not easily be “butcherable” (a new word I just made up) in most Latin-based and Germanic-based languages;

Thanks to all my family, friends, clients, client who became friends — past, present, and future — for making the last year, and the last decade, spectacular.