“Duck Soup” means an easily accomplished task…pretty far from our world of the moment. But, 14 baby ducklings hatched over at the Mill Thursday… Scanning our favorite news sources came up with these images…the old reality (from the NYTimes) …and the new reality…(from the Washington Post the pictures of the 1918 flu look very like […]
We are literally “all in the same boat.” (and here’s a boat my Dad made for “the boys”) (and two boats from Mr. May…still missed here on “the Island”) How many times over my long life have I heard the phrase “we’re all in the same boat”…but “all” really meant all people of a certain […]
These days are odd aren’t they? It’s so serious. It’s scary. Will we get sick? Will you? Yet in these days, these ahead-of-the-wave days, we’re treading water. Will our toilet paper run out? Will our money run out? Hard to know anything at all. This girl showed up in a message…and delighted us… Zoom exercise […]
Before we got to the drawing part of the day though, we did an early run to the Safeway and discovered all we had been reading was true…there is NO toilet paper…c’mon people! There was also NO flour or prepackaged dinners but plenty of most anything else and LOTS of fruits and vegetables…we were shopping […]
Here’s a drawing I made this week at the Annex at Salem Art Associations Bush Barn Art Center, where I was Artist in Residence for the last three weeks. My residency was to continue until March 31st but with “social distancing” now in play, and being in the at-risk age group, I packed up today… […]
Last weekend we dashed to Oakland with Jennifer and George to see Fanny…their daughter and our niece. Fanny has lived in the east bay area for about 5 years but R and I haven’t been to visit..so we had a long sunny weekend of good fun, good food and lots of art. Fanny made all […]
We headed north today to drop off a piece of mine as donation to the silent auction at Disjecta (November 16th)… and to see the current Biennial on view at Disjecta Contemporary Art Center (8371 N. Interstate). From 1949 to 2010 the Biennial was at the Portland Art Museum, but more recently has been on […]
Now that the long winter and wet early spring are behind us, it’s good to raise the spirits. Sad things piled up over here…our son and daughter-in-law and grand kids took off for a couple of years far away, a good friend died leaving an unfill-able space, maybe a health issue or two…one does adjust […]
Once a month on the second Saturday a group of people from around town gather someplace to draw for an hour together. It becomes an examination of visual resources in our community and a sort of camaraderie of people who like to draw…people who don’t necessarily know each other in daily life. The youngest is […]
This was the big “Hood to Coast” relay weekend in Oregon, and we did our own version burning far fewer calories than the runners, but still requiring “pluck’ and a certain amount of energy. We headed to Mt. Hood and Timberline Lodge Wednesday to spend the night and be in place for Thursday…the second annual […]
