I’m cleaning the dining room chairs in advance of the new table that is coming in December. What seemed a chore yesterday, today became a meditation on old family things, the patina of age, and my mother-in-law. The chairs have been at our house for 20 years, since Mo died. As the eldest child, R […]
Annually, in the fall when the geese start south, we start thinking of doing something “new” in the house. “The Fall Fix-up” we call it. This year the project is growing like topsy…it began with just painting the trim around the upstairs windows after they were repaired, and then we decided to switch rooms on […]
The lost is found…in this case photos. Saturday, after listening to George speak at Augen Gallery, we went next door to the Froelick Gallery to see Barry Pelzner’s knockout pieces…ball point pen on a good piece of paper: dense, visceral, wonderful…simple and complex together. Katherine Ace uses pattern and texture to great advantage… …and then […]
This post is probably going to be in the “too much information” category for most of you…but I HAVE to do it. It does, however, explain why it has been so quiet from these parts for awhile. We’ve been hunkering down while this very old house has been thoroughly gone over, repaired and painted in […]
If you are looking for a memorable dinner in Seattle, off the beaten path, exquisite, attention to detail, carefully sourced food…I’ve got just the place…The Corson Building…(5609 Corson Avenue, S…Seattle) The building was at one time a family home and business that sold statuary, and is located in an industrial area south of Seattle, called […]
In July I dashed to New Mexico for a luxurious and fun week with Mary, a friend from the Chicago days (we go wayyy back…). I flew in from Portland and she from Chicago… and we met at the airport. After a great dinner and proper toast we headed out of Albuquerque for Mary’s house… […]
This month the Tuesday quilt group met at Olga’s and she had a few quilts thrown over the railing like a medieval castle… Her house is comfy and fun…here’s something I spied… Linda and Kathleen had shared a piece of fabric in the mystery quilt challenge, and this was the reveal…here’s Linda’s version (front and […]
So after the Umbrian idyll and saying good bye to loved ones we headed… yep…back to Florence for two lovely days. We found the restaurant Garga right near our hotel…I’d taken a cooking class from Sharon back in 2001 when the restaurant Garga was on Via del Moro…and we had a fabulous dinner… ending with […]
I was reading in the New York Times about the current controversy between Peggy Guggenheim’s heirs, and the Guggenheim Museum’s administration of the Peggy Guggenheim Museum in Venice http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/08/arts/design/fight-over-guggenheims-legacy-roils-her-palazzo.html?smid=fb-share&smv1&_r=0, and I feel like making a brief comment about a place I really loved. The museum is in the beautiful palazzo Guggenheim had built on the […]
An exciting day this week when Eunice Parsons brought her papers to the PNAA (Pacific Northwest Artists Archive) at the Willamette University Library. Roger Hull and archivist Mary McRobinson have been actively collecting the “papers” (correspondence, drawing books, clippings, photographs, exhibition announcements, cassette interviews) of Oregon artists since 1997…an invaluable resource for researchers working on […]
On The Way 