I’ve become a strong supporter of the “CSA” movement over the last couple of years. This year the season was 26 weeks, this week was week 23. Each week a truck parks for a couple of hours across the street from our house, downloading the many boxes for subscribers. Along with the box comes a […]
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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.
THE ARBOR CAFE
In the fall of 1991 my friend Lynne and I opened a restaurant. We sold it in 2004 and since then it has had 3 successive owners. On Halloween the Arbor Cafe closed its doors for good–the end of an era. Goodbye Arbor Cafe. It changed our lives in many ways.
Halloween visit…
Today we went to the Pioneer Cemetary looking for the Bush family grave sites. Asahel Bush died in 1913 after founding newspapers, banks and generally leaving a large imprint on our community and our state. A little band of volunteers–people like me who give time to the beautiful Victorian house museum called Bush House Museum–met […]
LIVING THE CREATIVE LIFE: HARRY WIDMAN II
The book is at the designer, the exhibition layout is planned, and soon the work will be collected for Harry’s retrospective show coming up in January, 2009, at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art. Last Friday we visited the Widmans’ and sorted through Harry’s large studio. Roger put his choices of work for the show […]
The colors…
This weekend around town and in Portland, everywhere the same: you turn the corner and wow…banks of color. Shocking, delightful, spirit raising:
Beach Weekend
Last weekend the clear and cool beach, the beautiful Bay, a good fish dinner:
The Damboo:
I’ve been obsessed with the bamboo (or the “Damboo” as my neighbor calls it) outside the bedroom window. This morning, early, I got to watching it and nocticed it made interesting patterns on the TV–a lot more interesting that when you turn the tv on, for sure.
Reassuring, or not??
I can’t decide:
First Frost Due Tonight…
So we picked all the tomatoes:
On The Way 