They ALMOST have it, but not quite…
Author: bonniehull
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.
Warehouse demolition 2/23
Today after the YWCA luncheon I got a good view of the demolition process. Note the dust rising on the right in the closeup:
Warehouse Fixation….
I know this is getting kind of boring, but I can’t seem to let it go. Today I went down to the Riverfront Park to get a view of the river side of the building, you know, the side where we’d have had a view from our studios…
These Trees
I haven’t always captured photos of these trees, but I have noticed the tendency people have to plant them against walls. Then the trees begin to grow and kind of groan and wail and dance and carry on. Have you seen them around?? They begin to have personalities sort of. The five on the left […]
SUNDAY UPDATE
Here’s the warehouse today: with a detail: It’s going to take a while to get this one down to the ground.
Goodbye to the Frye
This just in from Bruce–one of his gorgeous night images of the Frye warehouse: In a few hours I’ll go get a photo of what’s left of it today.
Dan Frye Warehouse departs
I’ve always loved the Dan Frye warehouse–built in the late 1800’s. I could always imagine it converted to something wonderful (studios came to mind…) but the city has always seen it as an eyesore. It and the White Seed building are the only two remaiining buildings on the riverfront that relate to the way Salem […]
The grocery store saga continues…
I DO live a short walk from two stores and here they are: So move closer to the one nice grocery store??? It’s a peninsula surrounded on three sides by 4 to 6 lane roads: Hmmm. Hmmmm. Move to Portland??
Examining City Lust
In Portland last weekend I began to examine my city lust and in the parking lot of Zupan’s decided maybe part of it was grocery store lust I want to live no more than 5 minutes from this store!!!!!! I don’t of course.
BE MINE
From the valentine archive:
On The Way 