No kidding, the car wash is always a mood elevator and ESPECIALLY since they changed to yellow scrubby stuff and blue soap…
Category: Modern Life
Farewell to Louis Bunce
The Louis Bunce show “Dialogue with Modernism” closed at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art Sunday, with curator Roger Hull leading one last gallery tour. Here’s Roger talking about Portland painter George Johanson’s portrait of Louis and one of Bunce’s beautiful Harold Street paintings (on the right)… and here’s a snapshot of Louis talking intently […]
The Lan Su Chinese Garden
The Lan Su Chinese Garden (poetically “Garden of Awakening Orchids”) in Portland was completed in 2000, and I’ve long wanted to go for a visit. R noticed this year that our Oregon Historical Society memberships gave us free entrance to the garden in March so it became the birthday excursion last Thursday, my birthday AND […]
The One Sunny Day
What a wet winter this has been…and still is. One sunny day seems like a miracle, and the most recent one coincided with Sidney Day which meant more fun…the usual early departure…misty sun along the river… Playground action all morning…”who’s that trippy-tropping on my bridge?” a great slide… producing some static electricity in the hair […]
Artist in Residence at the Annex
I’m having fun this month, doing one of the things I love to do…drawing. In 2010 I was lucky enough to be the first Artist in Residence at the Annex at Bush Barn Art Center. The luxury of having a project-oriented studio was new to me and very exciting, and I so appreciate this program […]
SRH and “Nasty Women”
Thursday was Sidney day and though it had a fort in it… it was more about trains… Harry was playing… but we got dressed and headed out… this week to Eutectic Gallery to see the “Nasty Women” show…interesting from the perspective of one who has no cultural perspective… or rather, from one who has a […]
The Deckers
The other morning I was sitting with a group of friends, sewing, and the talk was of memory and aging (and politics, but that’s another whole ball of wax…) and this morning I was tidying the bedroom and walked by this photo, as I do daily, but was drawn in today. As I gazed at […]
Clay Lohman at JSMA
We were heading to Eugene and wanted to see Clay Lohman’s installation “Camo Cubes” at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at the University of Oregon. Parking is very limited and we had heard that we might apply for “movie star” parking due to my knee recuperation..What a delight to drive up and find… We […]
Fort Day
As the political bad news swirled around, we concentrated more on forts and cats yesterday. Sidney had been to visit the fire department on the weekend and was imaginatively involved. The power of the big trucks, the number of axes apparently lying around, the hoses and hats and boots…wow. During nap time I got out […]
Looking at Art
I guess if you have read this blog a time or two you know that looking at art is a major part of my universe. Just reviewing this past week, I see all the ways art enlivens my own life and thinking and experience, and I hope this is true for you too. As we […]
On The Way 