We arrived in this beautiful place after an airline adventure I hope to never repeat but with plenty of help from “home base” (thank you Cheryl and Ashton for reeling us in). Before swimming there’s coffee, smoothies and drawing After swimming and drawing…an adventure…
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Travel Notes…
Goodbye house Goodbye Louis Hello Dallas/Fort Worth Oops…begin our new life in the Miami airport… Where we do not have a room with a view… But the coffee is terrific… Now…where shall we go? San Juan??
Oakland!
Last weekend we dashed to Oakland with Jennifer and George to see Fanny…their daughter and our niece. Fanny has lived in the east bay area for about 5 years but R and I haven’t been to visit..so we had a long sunny weekend of good fun, good food and lots of art. Fanny made all […]
Disjecta/Burrasca
We headed north today to drop off a piece of mine as donation to the silent auction at Disjecta (November 16th)… and to see the current Biennial on view at Disjecta Contemporary Art Center (8371 N. Interstate). From 1949 to 2010 the Biennial was at the Portland Art Museum, but more recently has been on […]
Fifty
It absolutely is true…50 years ago on September 20, 1969, Roger Hull and Bonnie Decker got married in Wilmette, Illinois… and I can’t find the wedding pictures anywhere…so I started looking at other photos of us through the years. We’ve always had fun. We have had somber and sad moments like all lives have, but […]
Visiting
These last few weeks I’ve been dropping in. Sometimes I was delivering dishes from my “transfer ware give-away,” or checking in to see how the dishes look in place, maybe seeing an art exhibit or looking at beautiful Japanese fabric…various. This has meant some pleasant conversation and lots of great visuals. Instead of a tight […]
The Dinner Challenge
Again this year a Portland friend sent out this fun dinner challenge invitation… “You have been randomly selected to participate in my summer dinner challenge. I will cook for 5 nights in a row…Tuesday August 27-Saturday August 31 for any number of people as long as they RSVP . My Rules: 1. I will not go to […]
A Weekend Out
Last weekend was a trip off our usual path (home/beach/city). We combined a visit with friends, a civic event, and some imaginative sight-seeing with Doug and Marie as our guides, in a place we never go (though we had been once years ago) but will go again, I’m pretty sure. Joseph, Oregon, is in the […]
The Floors!
Our house is old for this part of the world…1849. It’s been moved twice, and the current fir floors probably date from the first move in 1893. Aaron and Boyd from Bear Ridge Designs didn’t think they’d ever been refinished. They were not worn to a lovely patina, they were just worn. It was time, […]
Summer 2019
Whaat? It’s August 1st? Hi…it’s been a while. My exhibit is over and I’ve navigated the often-post-show let-down…and in checking my photo file I see a lot has happened but I’m speechless on this subject so I’ll just roll out some images thereby proving summer is summer, mine not too different from yours…beach, garden, family…occasional […]
