We started Sunday at the beach… but quickly jumped in the car, and headed home to get ready for Harry’s 84th birthday party. LUCKILY I can sew in the car (…and no, I wasn’t driving…) I’m still working on the spring quilt…trying to finish before summer gets here! The sky was so beautiful today…. We […]
Category: Modern Life
Week’s Worth
Not a momentous week, but like most of our weeks, filled with the lovely variety of things that make our lives…here’s what I’ve been up to: Check this out people…every Tuesday in May conservationist Tom Fuller will be working on the Hallie Ford Museum of Art’s native basket collection in the lobby so you can […]
Restaurant News…
Well just about this time in 1991 we were “building” the Arbor Cafe…certain that soon there would be 10 downtown restaurants opening up. Oops. Never happened. But this summer in Salem the restaurant scene is heating up… Have you been to Maven yet…?? Good food, good ambience…State Street. for Salem-ites it’s right across the street […]
Work Zone
It’s a work zone over here today. Mike’s crew arrived early to tear off the old roof… and then the plywood sheathing went on…and here’s Mike himself (hint: he isn’t 20, 30 40 or 50…) …the crew was well-supervised at our end… and by the end of their work day the front was ready to […]
Tree Memorial…
Checked the tree status yesterday…two still standing, tree memorials intact…
New Carwash
Oh this is weird…instead of you moving through the carwash, the carwash moves around you…and is RED!
Save This Tree…
As you can see this last tree near the front door of U.S.Bank’s Ladd and Bush Branch is healthy and beautiful… It would be such a vote of confidence for this community, a community that doesn’t like to think of a NON-community bank altering our landscape so dramatically, if this one tree could be saved. […]
The Narrative of Street Trees…
In any city, even a small one like ours, the trees tell stories…who planted them, who decided, when they were planted. And on. As luck would have it, I happened to be down at the Ladd and Bush Bank Friday photographing a moment… just as David Rosales was being arrested for his protest of the […]
Street Trees, Again…
This week a sad battle was lost downtown. The Ladd and Bush branch of U.S. Bank had been denied it’s request to remove a row of street trees that many of us had loved for decades. The Shade Tree Advisory Committee voted against the removal of the trees, but the bank appealed and won March […]
“Map of the Table”
Just finishing up my most recent sketchbook project book in preparation for sending it off to the Brooklyn Art Library…maybe it will come to Portland this summer on the Sketchbook Tour??! One more page to go but thought I’d just put it on here today…it’s called “Map of the Table” and I’ve been dragging it […]
On The Way 