Our few days at the beach started with Jim’s birthday and the next morning we headed north toward Cannon Beach: stopping for lunch at Wanda’s …where we were shown to the fireside table and as we settled in, we took notice of exactly where we were. Wall decorations included a reminder of RPH as a […]
Category: Celebrations
HENK PANDER/Opening, Lecture…
Two years of interviews, writing, thinking…and a lifetime of art making….all conjoined into one evening, one wonderful and interesting evening: Tulips everywhere in preparation for Henk’s arrival: But first: …and we’re off and running… …and a little bit of a family occasion for us with our son and his partner and two of my brothers […]
Happy New Year!!
Yesterday we caught up with Jess for breakfast, and she brought along a present of the warm days of the old year magically transposed into something yummy for the new year: Toast? Muffins?? Ice cream??? YUM!
New Year, New Decade….
Starting both “on the edge”…a twenty year tradition. After the New Year’s Eve revelry at the beach…(we stayed up til 3:00 a.m.!) we had a quiet day today, with a view of the bay: a coffee with Hans’ SUPERIOR foam: a view of the bay from a different vantage point: a stop at the fish […]
Presentation is all…
Every year R goes to the beach for a week before Christmas for his “winter retreat” which includes reading books, taking beach walks, drinking some scotch and…putting together some wacky and wonderful Christmas gifts. His wrappings sometimes include plastic vegetable bags, shells, unidentifiable items that are familiar yet not…boxes, tins, plastic containers. These are imaginative […]
Christmas Car Wash
Busy, too much to do, in need of fun??? grab a coffee and head to the Christmas car wash!
Birthday Week, Day 2
The fun goes on. A couple of days in the city with the first event being DE May’s opening at PDX Gallery. An elegant strong show of beautiful work, sort of holds the gallery up to the light. The show combines 2-d “template drawings” with 3-d constructions…some using found objects some constructions..both with Dan’s mastery […]
Happy Birthday!!!
Today was R’s birthday and we managed to pack in QUITE a bit. We left the beach early in a downpour and grabbed a quick bite at Starbbucks where we discovered the answer to the question “Where does Santa Claus really live…” Answer: Lincoln City…and he has coffee at Starbucks Zoomed back to Salem to […]
Happy Birthday Lynn!!!
This is me (Goldie) and Lynn Shoenut Yaney (Dusty), the gold dust twins, in the Detroit, Michigan bus station in the middle of the night sometime about 1967. We were roommates. This was before husbands, babies, careers, restaurants and ad agencies, before writing and painting and gardening. Before travel. Before love and deaths. September 12th […]
What a weekend…
Up to Portland for another celebratory retirement dinner for R…this one all wonderful Indian food made by Marie. Yum. After a sleep-over Roger, Doug and Emma got up early to ride the Portland Bridge Pedal…5 bridges, 11.5 miles. Of course they took off from home so the whole event round trip was 21 miles!! Doug […]
On The Way 