Leaving downtown Boston we drove back across Massachusetts (with more fall color, but only just beginning) on our way to visit Ellen and Larry in rural Vermont… they live on 20 or so acres near Dummerston, Vermont, which is near Brattleboro…and with good directions we actually found them. The quilts were airing as a welcome… […]
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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 Breaching of the Condit Dam…
Back in August we visited the site of the Condit Dam and reported in on the fact that it was soon to be blown up and the river returned to it’s natural aspect. Well…today was the day. 11:30…BOOM. I couldn’t be there of course, but Jennifer thoughtfully provided me with a live stream link and […]
A Lighting Triumph!
We called in at the State Forester’s office in Salem for a brown bag lunch the other day to check out the triumph in lighting. When we last visited in March we noted that the beautiful period office had horrific florescent lighting added some time in the last few decades: The State Forester (also my […]
iPhone Postscript
I sent this photo of a book on iPhone photos to my brother in Seattle…taken with my iPhone. He said the coolest part was that when he received the photo it said “taken with my iPhone” at the bottom…juxtapositions are all in this funny world…
The trip East…Rochester to Boston…
First stop after leaving Rochester was Germantown, NY, to see Libby and Michael and Kierlan in their wonderful house overlooking the Hudson River…but I lost my camera the next day so, alas, I can’t show you the work they’ve done on the house, the beautiful sweeping views of the Hudson, Libby’s amazing concrete tile floors, […]
A Visit to Rochester….
Since I lost my camera on our trip east, my photo record is incomplete…and, hence, the various posts forming in my head didn’t make sense so…here we go organizing by the venues–place by place…two weeks in the east, 2011. We landed in Rochester and returned to Rochester…former fame was Kodak (which is pretty much gone […]
The Last Few Days…
Crazy days…too full…one day we zoomed to Portland for the dress rehearsal for the Oregon Children’s Theater play “Pinkalicious” (photos strictly forbidden) for which Ashton did the costumes. Before the play we visited a few favorites at the Portland Art Museum…Agnes Martin…too fabulous, and then this plaid panting knocked me out (by??…I forgot to write […]
Hess & McCulloch at Waterstone
Two old friends have a show up this month…sculptor Robert Hess showing new work in bronze, and painter Sue-Del McCulloch with her big exploded landscapes taking the space by storm: Waterstone Gallery, 424 NW 12th, Portland…up until October 30th so there’s still time to take a look…. and Saturday we went out to Sue-Del’s for […]
And now…on to weddings…
Peninsula Park and the North Star Ballroom will be the venues for the August, 2012, wedding of Zach Hull and Ashton Edmonds. Yesterday the “food committee” met to check out the venue… and then repaired to St. Jack to see a little mouse made out of pate an onion tart and a bunch of other […]
Housekeeping…addendum
NOTE on “HOUSEKEEPING”: David Filer contacted me yesterday to say that Finishing Line Press only publishes when it has 55 orders for a book. Should you wish a copy of a book of poems by a Portland author (cover art by a Salem artist…ahem) you can order on line. An interesting sidelight is that all […]
On The Way 