We arrived at the beach to discover the city had cut down the damaged tree, ravaged in the December storms. Our plain little cottage needs some visual interest so we wandered up and down the edge looking for pergolas. First a review of the cottage: Oh dear. So–pergolas: We’re thinking pergola #3 might be the […]
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.
Watching Sunset
A mussel feed at Dick and Dee’s had us sitting at the big table watching the sunset over good conversation and food and wine. We looked for the green flash and dark was falling fast. My idea of getting one last shot of the phosphorescence in the waves proved optimistic.
A Perfect Spring Day
Yesterday was the first really spring-like day: warm, sunny, blue sky. I took my bike out to Minto and rode the full 7 miles with only a little fanny fatigue. Then off to Kiki’s for a salade nicoise and tales of her trip to France. Surprisingly for me, also a reprise of birthday week with […]
Patience, Dear Readers…
The blog administrators of wordpress.com have changed the interior blog format, the “dashboard” of the blog (the part you don’t see). For some reason as yet totally unknown, I’m having a hard time adding in photos (“uploading” as they say). As this blog is image related, this is a bit of a struggle at the […]
Bread & Ink
Did you ever eat at Bread & Ink on Hawthorne? I love to go there because they have paper on the tables so I can draw while everybody else talks and eats. Recently went there with George and Jennifer (R’s sis and mate) and the adorable Fanny. Fanny and I were sitting across from the […]
“VIEW WEST”
I nearly rear-ended somebody Saturday when I was driving along and saw they’d moved my painting in the Mayor’s Invitational Show at the Conference Center–putting it in the window. It’s not what I’m doing now but it looked sort of sweet with it’s horizon line matched with Paul Strauch’s painting. Check it out, as Randy […]
The Key Coat
We were in the museum this weekend looking at the Piranesi show and peeked at the installation of sculpture by Andries Fourie. One thing in the show is the key coat, pictured here with an additional earlier photo of Roger WEARING the key coat. Andries hails from South Africa and the coat was his grandfather’s. […]
A SAD TREE
I was thinking these blue things looked rather beautiful in the tree until I read the sign that said each blue streamer represents a child abuse case in Oregon in 2006. What is wrong with our world.
Fenestration Disaster
Willamette University thinks of itself as the Harvard of the west but I’m pretty sure Harvard wouldn’t do this to a lovely old historic building–in this case Salem’s old Carnegie Library, now owned by the University. They removed the historic windows–the criss-cross sections were actually glazed in the original version. The beautiful articulated wooden frames […]
CHICAGO
A conversation last night about Chicago reminded me of my visit last May. The city has become so much more beautiful in the years we’ve been away that we were amazed and delighted at every turn. Just the most obvious: “The Bean” The fountain on Michigan Avenue in Millenium Park. Videos of different faces (and […]
On The Way 