Ellen Stevens and a group of citizens is working on saving the beautiful Church Street Bridge. It was built in 1928 and designed by then Salem bridge engineer R.A.Furrow, one-time colleague of well-known bridge designer Conde McCullough. The bridge is a beauty… spanning Pringle Creek (which is a pretty swollen, roaring body of water today…due […]
From January through March of 2017 the Hallie Ford Museum of Art will present a show surveying the work and career of Portland painter Louis Bunce (1907-1983). The show will be curated by art historian Roger Hull, and there will be a book. You don’t have to mark your calendars yet…I’ll remind you….but this week […]
Well not exactly news actually, but news to me. My friend Karen is an archivist of sorts…she saves, she bundles, she files…then she purges by sending off the myriad clippings and files she has saved to the people she knows are interested. The other day this came in the mail… And she’s right…I love quonset […]
What a nice day today. For one thing, it started out sunny with the light streaming in… …and a few fun things were on the schedule…home things… Back in 2012 at this time, I was getting ready for ankle surgery and being off my feet for three months. R put lights on the trees outside […]
On April 25, 1935, our stately old Capitol building burned, alas. To the ground. A new building was built, a cornerstone was installed in a big ceremony… and a statue of a golden pioneer was placed atop the building… 75 years ago…and this is birthday week. We heard the capitol building was decorated like a […]
A couple of weeks ago we visited my cousin Don who lives in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and his mom, my Auntie Pat. I couldn’t remember visiting Kenosha as a kid, though we often drove from the Chicago suburbs to Wisconsin on one of my Dad’s “drive-abouts”. Well during our visit this month, the history of Kenosha […]
We were gone last week and spent most of the week in Kenosha, Wisconsin…and more about that next time. The last day of the trip though, we headed into Chicago in order to see the new modern wing on the Art Institute, designed by Renzo Piano and built since our last trip…and a timely trip […]
Back in July I wrote about the James Mattingly mural on the rear of the Elsinore Theater, and the efforts of a group of dedicated citizens trying to refurbish it…and, miracle of miracles, the money was raised! So this week… the work begins… as muralist Dan Cohen (just guessing as to which is which…) and […]
Yesterday Scott packed up and left…after almost the whole summer at our house (yep..we’ll miss him, his chirpy “Good morning”‘s and his texts to announce imminent arrival at hours like 7:30 a.m…eek). Bathroom number two upstairs is complete… Yay! To review, as R would say, the first part of the summer produced bathroom #1: which […]
A couple of weeks ago I spent three days in the Gaiety Hollow garden, the home garden of landscape architects Elizabeth Lord and Edith Schryver. The L&S Conservancy asked me to do some drawings for their upcoming fund raising campaign…a campaign to repay the generous donor who bought the house and garden, and is allowing […]
On The Way 