We stopped in Philomath the other day to check in with Irene Zenev at the Benton County Historical Society Museum. There they also house the Horner Collection, formerly at OSU but transferred in 2008 to Benton County. On the Horner Colection website is a nice slide show of the moving of this collection…the result of […]
Since 1992 we’ve spent the first week of most years at the beach, where often it is sunny and bright. We slow down after the holiday rush, sleep in, walk the beach and plan the year ahead. This year the first day of the new year looked like this…
Last weekend we stayed at the wonderful Wave Crest in Cannon Beach, being lovers of the authentic Oregon experience, and it was fun. When owner (Daryl)Hank Johnson was a Portlander (curator at the Washington Park Rose Garden) he often stayed at the Wave Crest, and then just up and bought it from his retiring friends […]
Kate and I agreed to do the Moda block-a-month challenge mostly as a way to see each other at least once a month and have a coffee! We picked up our first block pattern and fabric Friday and then sat in the sun a drank coffee…and then R and I came away to the beach […]
Okay, maybe you’ve had enough of Cutler City…but if not, here’s a little more….the Bay House Restaurant is the structure at the far right…Cutler City Cafe in those days… Here’s the original Crab Pot under construction… and we used to have a dock back in the day…(Tyko once told me it was to load timber…but […]
Let’s back track a little. Cutler City, site of our aforementioned beach house, is at the far south end of the “Ten Miracles Miles” known as “Lincoln City” (a made-up name used to designate the small towns of Ocean Lake, Delake, Nelscott, Taft and Cutler City, which became as one in March of 1965). Historically […]
I’m sort of mad today. Our beach time in this house dates from 1992. Our neighborhood is adorable… Rugosas and their rose hips line the path to the beach… the view of the Bay constantly changes and always enchants… …but there is a fly in the ointment. Tim. He owns the house next door […]
The Crab Pot was an institution in Lincoln City…most especially in Cutler City. The original business dates way back to the 1920’s… For 39 years it has been owned and operated by Allen Black, who lived above the storefront. R and I have been buying fish there since 1992 and have had many a good […]
Oh bliss…this is it, don’t you think? Berries… pie and birthdays dinners with neighbors (and here R had to borrow Evan’s garden gloves to open the champagne…) drives to the beach… More dinners… Thanks for the evening, you guys! heading home with a view of the Bay… …and GUYS…it isn’t even the 4th yet!
There is nothing more numbing than a long narrative of what somebody else has been doing…sort of like an over-long Christmas letter…but images, well, always good for some of us. So, images only, this is what my week has held…
On The Way 