These few sunny days have caused a flurry of activity around here. The Garden Studio…as it looked after construction…was surrounded by dirt and after our EXTREMELY wet winter the bottom two sections of shingles were very dirty. Clearly action was needed, so Bill arrived last week and has been working between rain storms to make […]
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Spring Walk Off…
I was looking at a favorite blog yesterday (Local Ecologist) and Georgia was talking about the Winter Walk Off challenge on Les’ blog A Tidewater Gardener…start off on your own two feet, walk around your neighborhood and take some photos…of course I missed the closing date and season change (typical…) so instead of the Winter […]
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 […]
SPRING!!!!
It’s winter, it’s winter, it’s winter…and then suddenly…it’s spring. How did that happen so fast? Here’s what’s happening out there today…
Lord & Schryver…February
Sharon and I made…we hope…our last trip to the Knight Library at University of Oregon on Wednesday…a foggy morning on the freeway We are preparing (“independent curators” we like to think) a show on the Salem landscape architects Elizabeth Lord and Edith Schryver, and their work in the region from 1929 to 1960. All the […]
Portrait Unveiling…
Back to reality today, and art reality comes first. We joined a large crowd at the Oregon State Capitol building… to witness the unveiling of the new portrait of soon-to-be-former governor Ted Kulongoski by Portland artist Eduardo Fernandez (note the painting covered with a black cloth behind the podium) There many speeches, many thank-you’s, the […]
…A Foggy Day…
Friday when Sharon and I took off for the Knight Library in Eugene it was sooo foggy… even the sun didn’t make a difference… We were heading to the Knight Library at U of O which houses the archive of drawings of landscape architects Elizabeth Lord and Edith Schryver. Sharon and I are curating a […]
Winter Wonderland….
I was going through some historic images today of the Lord & Schryver garden at Deepwood and found these wonderful shots from the 1950’s of a snow storm in the scroll garden plus this lovely one that ALMOST gets you in the mood for snow!
Related only by color…
Guess I’m staying pretty quiet this week…not too much happening in my world so maybe the stuff right at home base gets looked at. First out in the studio playing around with Christmas card designs then after trimming the wisteria I noticed these little roses twining in the rosemary POURING cold rain tonight…off to bed.
Shelton Ditch Enhancement Project
In November I wrote a couple of posts about two Willamette University grads planting creek-side in Salem. The name of the project is the Shelton Ditch Enhancement Project. I stopped to get a few photos of the newly planted area today and here’s the plant list from Luke: Tree Alnus rhombifolia (White Alder) Fraxinus latifolia […]
On The Way 