This weekend is the Salem Art Fair in the park and we went yesterday to catch up with some old friends. Mostly we sat in the beer garden, yakked and took pictures of each other (here are some of the beautiful Eustrom girls and friends) and R and Chris but when we went on a […]
Category: Modern Life
House Progress…
Z & A’s house is done and looking pretty nice…attention is now being turned to the gardens which have suffered between construction and painting…take a look! Before: during: after:
Italia…the flip side…
I think maybe my discourse has been getting pretty scenic and adorable (and there’s more of that to come) so thought today I’d inject a note about modern Italy…so you can see that it is the combination of things that makes you love it so…the picturesque/the mundane. If you’re looking for parking in urban Italy […]
Cortona at last…
Yes, the first cappuch…a welcome sight on the first morning. We over-slept and while the whole group was touring Cortona we sat in the breakfast room drinking in the views with the coffee. from below Cortona looks like this and at the top is Piazza Garibaldi where the Hotel San Luca is located…built down the […]
Italia 2011
Amici! Home at last with a few tales to tell…guess maybe I’ll drag it out… in installments? Leaving Portland at the end of May we checked the Louis Bunce mural of 1956 in the airport, once so controversial…now just plain beautiful… had our last American coffee and then jumped onto the plane where we were […]
Snafu Before Departure…
I was having an iPad tutorial yesterday and we were trading favorite “apps”??? (eye-hand addicts…keep away from mah jong…deeply addictive…) when it was suggested I need to plug back into the “mother ship” before departure to make sure all was synced…and I did…BUT there was a snafu and if you see a screen like this […]
Car Moment…
While I like to keep the blog non-commercial (except for coffee…), I have to report on our latest consumer moment. We got a new car. We had a 17 year old car and an 18 year old car and we were feeling the need for more reliable transportation. In our long lives together we had […]
Spring Romance…
This week a long awaited package arrived and just like THAT I’ve been catapulted into the world of apps and pretty much staring at this little thing for hours… this app is called “living earth” …. I’m having way too much fun…
…And Speaking of Cowgirls…
My friend Lynn grew up in Wisconsin and she had the cowgirl thing going too…here is a picture of Lynn on the right in her requisite fringed vest, with her cousin Rhonda on the left. Rhonda made the pillow for her recently… I’m not too sure what it was about little mid-western girls and the […]
Urban Grind….
A good looking (and tasty) coffee before R’s PNCA lecture yesterday, at Urban Grind…maybe 14th and Kearney NW?
On The Way 