Here’s some photos by photographer Bea Rowland of my site project down at Project Space:
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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.
PROJECT SPACE
This summer there’s a new space downtown sponsored by the SAA for professional working artists to show work, make work, collaborate, talk, critique. It’s an interesting experiment including a variety of working artists. There are shows changing about every two weeks, (the first one called “Here and Now”, next week “Transplants”) and I’ve been working […]
Summer in the Valley
And it really is summer. Hot. Sunny. A few breezes. Just before the 4th I went out to a lavender farm (Daffodil Hill) in West Salem with some friends and we sat and sipped iced tea, found a few antiques we might want to buy (I really love Hopalong Cassidy), and checked out the owner’s […]
The Villa
One last blast on Italy, and then it’s time to move on. This year we rented a place in the Umbrian hills east of Cortona. We’ve come to sort of enjoy the touristical one-two punch: first you tour with a group looking at art and Italy, then you repair to the country and relax. We […]
FOOD
We ate out a lot in Italy, and had some memorable and delicious meals. After a lot of heart-stopping prosciutto, these veggies were crisp and yummy on a hot day in Sansepulcro. But perhaps our best meals were the ones we made ourselves in our “villa” in the Umbrian hills after shopping for the ingredients: […]
Italian Coffee: yum
Oh yes. LOTS of coffees (even though in many places they were 2E or even 3E (about $3 or $4.50 each, depending on where you were). And that’s for a single shot of espresso or a very small cappucino–not a big American latte. But, well, it’s ITALY. One reason to go is to sit on […]
Blog collapse…
Well I sort of got side-tracked cleaning up the house and garden when we got back but–okay. A bit more about the trip and then off into the Oregon summer.
Why I Voted for Al Gore
Because in an article in the New Yorker I saw a photo of Al and Tipper in a hotel mirror, which she took. I felt it said a lot about him–more than a year of campaigning in a way. So, here we are in the hall of the Hotel San Luca and I can’t say […]
The Festa
One night in Cortona we followed the crowd and the noise to the main piazza to find a “spectacle” in full swing. The crowd was dense (maybe 7 or 8 deep) and I couldn’t see very much. The man next to me just held his camera up as high as he could, so I did […]
The Whisper
There’s been a new innovation in the touristical world–“The Whisper,” wherein the guides wear a little microphone and talk quietly and the group walks along with little radio set around their necks and earphones. It has relieved the multilingual shouting in most public places, but makes for a weird sight. Group after group, plugged in […]
On The Way 