I just loved this wall
Category: City
Salem Bicycle Taxi
Did you know that Salem has a bike taxi (2 in fact)?? One is always available around town and Michele can pick you up anytime and take you to your destination without burning any carbon fuel. Call her. Michele Darr, Salem Bicycle Taxi at 503-569-7223. Michele’s husband Mark Babson is developing a bike tour of […]
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 […]
Dean Brooks at 94
Sunday we went to Dean Brooks’ 94th birthday party out at Pentacle theater Dean Brooks was the director of the Oregon State Hospital in the 1970’s and allowed the State Hospital to be the site for filming the milestone movie “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s nest.” Brooks even played a part in the film…that role […]
The 4th Mayor’s Invitational
Salem Conference Center hosts this show for a year. Last year it was work from the City of Salem’s collection, and this year it was an invitational. I fell down on my true reporting because of too much schmoozing (…have I said that before?…) but here are the few pictures I took. The main concourse: […]
Lord & Schryver & the Plane Trees, Chapter 2
Yesterday Sharon and I were doing some preparatory file sifting as we begin the process of mounting a show next year at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art that will feature the drawings of Edith Schryver. Schryver was one half of the landscape design team of Lord & Schryver, active in this region from 1928 […]
The Bees…
After a fun sunny Saturday in Portland we were heading home when we saw a lady standing in the middle of 21st ST NW taking a photo–oblivious of traffic. “What could she be photographing??” said I. Bees. There was a swarm of bees on the telephone pole:
City Moment…
Just into the city for overnight but long enough to visit the home of great coffee…the original Stumptown on Division Even at 7:00 a.m. and in a paper cup they make a beautiful coffee and then I saw a quonset remodel of note. These pictures are both out of focus due to the low lght, […]
Message?
I think I made a post on something like this last year, but they always grab me, these drawings on the street
“The Mountain and the Metropolis”
Zoomed up to Tacoma Friday evening and checked in to the lovely Hotel Murano. Because of the proximity to the Glass Museum and being in Chihuly-land, the museum is filled with glass work of varying kinds: We were there for Roger to give a talk in conjunction with a current show at the Tacoma Art […]
On The Way 