Portland painter Leonard Ruder died a few years ago after a long and productive life as a painter. He was born in 1917 in Detroit, Michigan, and studied art at The Cranbrook Academy there. He came west in the 1950’s with his artist friend Hank Kowert to study more, to paint, and to begin his […]
Category: Ephemera
…from the road…
This cracked me up…
The Promise of Summer…
Dorothy (as we call the lady in our GPS, thanks to Richard and Carol) took us STRAIGHT to the beach Friday… stopping only long enough for a glass of wine and a few “small plates” at the Inn at Spanish Head (where we were supervised closely)… and some veg. Saturday dawned warm and sunny and […]
Sign of the Times….
We drive by them daily, all of us. Being visual, I’m always attracted to the signs people hold while panhandling…Have thought of taking a series of photos, I see a cool one and then… I’m in a hurry, or there’s no place to park…I drive on by. This time I stopped and asked if I […]
Hi!
A greeting from blog-vacation-land…
Lord and Schryver
I hope between now and September 18th you’ll have a chance to visit the Hallie Ford Museum of Art to see an interesting show of the garden plans and watercolors of the landscape architects Elizabeth Lord and Edith Schryver, curated by Sharon Rose and myself. Lord and Schryver both attended the Lowthorpe School in Groton, […]
City Ephemera…
Dashed to Portland today for a couple of errands…no time even for coffee…but here were a few observations: Spring is here on Caruthers Street…a flame maple heads toward summer. Some artists have a more casual approach to storing their artwork: the diorama contest at Beulah Land is fun:
Worms…
It’s kind of odd what things bring a memory back, but one day I was thinking about being a kid in the Mid-West and walking home from school on a rainy day and seeing TONS of worms on the sidewalk. Then it came to me that…like lightening…we don’t see that in the Pacific NW very […]
Preoccupied…
My mind is on other stuff this week, but here are two short news notes…got a delicious and almost-pretty coffee at Broadway coffee (in the new modern church buildiing on the east side of Broadway)…it’s Stumptown coffee. The help…four people behind the counter…were so busy talking to each other that none could talk to me […]
MARDI GRAS!!!???
I LOVE surprises, and mystery surprises are even better…check out what was on our front door yesterday…???! WOW!!! Thank you, whoever you might be!!!!
On The Way 