Zoomed up to Tacoma Friday evening and checked in to the lovely Hotel Murano. Because of the proximity to the Glass Museum and being in Chihuly-land, the museum is filled with glass work of varying kinds: We were there for Roger to give a talk in conjunction with a current show at the Tacoma Art […]
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Bonnie Hull is a painter. Transplanted from the urban mid-west, she works in Oregon's capital city living in a mid-19th century house. Studio, garden, quilting, coffee, preservation, the Oregon art world are among her topics.
Home Again…
This is Salem today: but last week it was like this in Arizona where Carol and I stayed with her sister Midge: Went to the Phoenix Art Museum Sedona: Scottsdale art walk: Desert Botanical Garden: Monarchs: Sonoran desert where these cacti are about 50 years old before the produce the “arm” and can live to […]
Aventura…
I’m off to Phoenix tomorrow for a week of adventures. Yesterday “harvested” all the hydrangeas in anticipation of late fall bouquets, took a walk around Deepwood garden and enjoyed the last of the summer bouquets from Sharon’s garden as I tidied for departure and made some lunch: See you next week!!
Cynthia Herron and Sharon Rose: a collaboration
Ten years ago or so Sharon Rose wrote a book about Minto/Brown Island, our local riverside park of many many acres for bikes, runners, dogs. The bike trails alone are more than nine miles of beautiful riding. Last year she put out a revised edition of the book (with a Carl Hall painting on the […]
Trick or Treat!!!
It’s always a aurprise when you go to the door on Halloween… but in this case the giant scary chicken was Mike who came with his son Owen who was dressed as an egg (in this case we know which came first) Trick or Treat!!
The Goodwill Bins
Yesterday three of us went to the Goodwill Bins, an astonishing experience. In a large room there are many many blue bins, all on wheels in rows, all FILLED with junk. Some bins have only books, some have only clothes, some have junk. Mostly (except for books) you pay by the weight. At 4:00 p.m. […]
Living the Creative Life: James Lee Hansen
We went up to Battleground, WA, last week to visit sculptor Jim Hansen and his wife Jane, who had invited us to tour their “compound” and have lunch. They have 13 acres just north of Vancouver and it was a rainy but beautiful fall day. The “front yard” is the perfect place for sculpture, but […]
The New Lawn, finally, complete
Well it just POURED yesterday morning. Torrential. But, in the afternoon the guys arrived to do the final work. Cleaning the walks, patching and trimming the grass, testing the sprinklers. Even if it’s raining the sprinklers will run twice a day for a few weeks. Roger has had a test run on the “system”. By […]
Beam Me Up Scotty…
Just discovered my nephew is an alien…
New Lawn, the Penultimate Day
Considering they laid the sod in the dark, it looks pretty good this morning. They covered the walk in sod as it can’t stayed rolled up another day. Tomorrow, Monday, the LAST day of this process, they will come and use the grass on the sidewalk to fill in little spots, trim, clean up, etc. […]
On The Way 