Two old friends have a show up this month…sculptor Robert Hess showing new work in bronze, and painter Sue-Del McCulloch with her big exploded landscapes taking the space by storm: Waterstone Gallery, 424 NW 12th, Portland…up until October 30th so there’s still time to take a look…. and Saturday we went out to Sue-Del’s for […]
Category: Coffee art
Making Things…
I went out to coffee with a bunch of artists the other day… and among the topics we talked about was the need to make things…a feeling I can identify from my earliest years. Today I sat in the back garden avoiding the heat and finishing the red and white quilt while also looking at […]
Italy 2011…The Villa
I promise this is the last chapter of our Italian adventure…for this year anyway! Well after our fabulous “groupo” took off, we had a brief but lovely four days in Florence (here a view from the roof garden atop the Hotel Grand Baglioni), with our beautiful niece Fanny wherein Roger toured her through streets and […]
Lord & Schryver
Saturday there was a tour of Lord & Schryver gardens and it was the PERFECT day…sunny and warm (but not too warm). We went first to Gaiety Hollow…Lord and Schryver’s home garden…the allee with the 300 year old oak tree was cool and inviting (though in spring it’s a riot of color), the brick paths […]
4th of July Fish…etc.
A great beach weekend and here’s a good recipe for grilling a whole Chinook salmon Take the whole fish…rub with olive oil and then make slits in the fish into which you put thin slices of butter. Get the corn ready Heat the grill… set the table Cook the fish 11 minuntes on a side…it […]
Pienza
We had never been to Pienza…a lovely little hill town with a GORGEOUS small renaissance piazza built by Piccolomini…who later became Pope Pius the second in 1458. Designed by Bernardo Rossellino…student of Alberti…it was envisioned as the “ideal city” and in many ways, it is… and not only did we touristical types like it, it […]
Italia 2011
Amici! Home at last with a few tales to tell…guess maybe I’ll drag it out… in installments? Leaving Portland at the end of May we checked the Louis Bunce mural of 1956 in the airport, once so controversial…now just plain beautiful… had our last American coffee and then jumped onto the plane where we were […]
Car Moment…
While I like to keep the blog non-commercial (except for coffee…), I have to report on our latest consumer moment. We got a new car. We had a 17 year old car and an 18 year old car and we were feeling the need for more reliable transportation. In our long lives together we had […]
High Brow/Low Brow
The art world, like the middle east, is under going a major, youth-driven, change…though luckily not so violent. Along with the established galleries and the established art scene, the 20-somethings are seeking out other venues…or really ANY venues…to show their work. Point of pride is to be in a coffee shop, a bar, a…hair salon. […]
Plant Saturday…
Oh is there anything nicer than a jaunt to a nursery on a Saturday morning? Carol and I headed out to Godfrey’s in Shaw for her annual impatiens (though they had no orange ones this year???) and the place was hopping as I hauled my wagon to check out I noted that at least one […]
On The Way 