Crazy days…too full…one day we zoomed to Portland for the dress rehearsal for the Oregon Children’s Theater play “Pinkalicious” (photos strictly forbidden) for which Ashton did the costumes. Before the play we visited a few favorites at the Portland Art Museum…Agnes Martin…too fabulous, and then this plaid panting knocked me out (by??…I forgot to write […]
Category: Modern Life
Hanging Out in Portland…
BEFORE I tell you about “artweek,” I thought I’d point out the seriously best ice cream I’ve had in ages, which you must go taste immediately at Salt & Straw, 2035 NE Alberta… even though this picture isn’t very appetizingly good because I started eating BEFORE I took the picture… Cheryl (my future co-mother-in-law) and […]
Kitchen Transformation!
This is ABSOLUTELY the last fix-up project for the year…and the LAST time we ever paint a kitchen…we sincerely hope…. Phil was out at the beach and had two extra days…we had left-over subway tile…the rest is history. We’ve had the beach house for 20 years, the wall paper was old and stained then…the cupboards […]
Minto Island Growers
Salemites! Want a great lunch? Take River Road out to Brown’s Island Road, hang a right and follow the signs to the Minto Island Growers farm stand TERRIFIC lunch cart. Elizabeth Miller has been farming out on Minto and doing CSA boxes with gorgeous certified organic produce. This summer her Mom has spearheaded this lunch […]
More on the Condit Dam
Here’s a cool blog…soon to feature a timelapse of the actual blowing up of the dam…check it out…thanks Jennifer!!
Inadvertent Moments
I was reading an article in the Thursday NYTimes by Roberta Smith this morning about “inadvertent galleries” around Manhattan…empty showcase windows, a parking area under the High Line, etc. So feeling the need for a little drama, I hit on the idea of giving you a sort of Aaron Siskind-esque tour of some of the […]
The Condit Dam
We stayed in White Salmon last weekend and the Sunday Oregonian had a front page story about the blasting of the 80 year old Condit Dam…to aid fish habitat on the White Salmon River. The dam had caused the formation of a “lake” where a river had been…Northwestern Lake, as it is called. Since we […]
Summer weekend…
Wow at last…a truly gorgeous weekend of sun and reasonable warm temperatures. Just the perfect week for random activities. The first annual seafood and wine festival organized by Fitts Seafood, and Santiam Wine Company. We were pretty happy a few years ago when Fitts went into part of a defunct grocery store…glad to have them […]
Surgery…
TREE surgery that is. Last week we noticed this sign on a tree across the street… and really, when we stepped back and LOOKED at the tree we saw it was a bit sick looking, and at the base of the trunk somebody in the neighborhood had sprinkled rose petals…as a last tribute? And today, […]
Italy 2011…The Villa
I promise this is the last chapter of our Italian adventure…for this year anyway! Well after our fabulous “groupo” took off, we had a brief but lovely four days in Florence (here a view from the roof garden atop the Hotel Grand Baglioni), with our beautiful niece Fanny wherein Roger toured her through streets and […]
On The Way 