Mark Babson came to get me today for a ride in the bike taxi. We took off into the fall sunshine and WHAT TOTAL FUN!! 14th and Center: Across the RR bridge: Past the carousel: Toward (and through) the Willamette campus: over the TIUA footbridge…looking north: and looking south: and a lot of places I […]
Category: Salem
Salem Bicycle Taxi
Did you know that Salem has a bike taxi (2 in fact)?? One is always available around town and Michele can pick you up anytime and take you to your destination without burning any carbon fuel. Call her. Michele Darr, Salem Bicycle Taxi at 503-569-7223. Michele’s husband Mark Babson is developing a bike tour of […]
Progress!!!
I was looking for a particular photo the other day, and ran across this one. The year is 1993 and that year Roger Hull (here on the left), Marcia Hoak and a merry band of volunteers spearheaded the planting of trees along State Street between 14th and 17th in a program they called State Street […]
Lord & Schryver & the Plane Trees, Chapter 2
Yesterday Sharon and I were doing some preparatory file sifting as we begin the process of mounting a show next year at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art that will feature the drawings of Edith Schryver. Schryver was one half of the landscape design team of Lord & Schryver, active in this region from 1928 […]
Plane Trees, and why I like them….
Around our Marion County Court House is a ring of beautiful old plane trees. They were planted in 1932 as part of a project planned by Salem landscape architect Elizabeth Lord, and funded by the Salem Garden Club. Our court house in those days was a lovely building from the 1880’s, and in an aerial […]
“CHECK IT OUT…”
(as Randy Jackson would say)…I almost drove off the edge of Court Street this evening when I saw the two new M.J. Anderson sculptures in front of the Justice Building. Two nude marble figures just standing there blindly…(the piece is called “Blind Justice”) This, though, in the town that refused a Renoir nude in 1956 […]
April Waters
Last night was the opening of a show of large portraits of contemporary women leaders painted by Salem artist April Waters. She’s been working on the paintings since 2006 when she began with a portrait of activist Cindy Sheehan after visiting Sheehan’s Texas encampment. Each portrait is over six feet high and they are quite […]
The Unveiling
Last week the newest portrait of an Oregon governor was unveiled at the State Capitol. The portrait was 6 years in the making, partly because former governor Kitzhaber wasn’t sure he really wanted a portrait of himself. Jane Cease assured him that he did. Portland painter Henk Pander was engaged, and the portrait was painted. […]
Snailem???? Huh!
So we went to see the railroad bridge which opened officially last weekend as a pedestrian bridge connecting Salem and West Salem. It’s the old bridge with new concrete decking, built in 1912, but with new railings and little “bump-outs” where you can stand and take a view or a photo. Then we went by […]
Cherry City Revisited
They used to call Salem the cherry city. Today I went down to look at the trees on the Mall in front of the Capitol building. Hard to describe or even photo how it feels to stand under all these flowers:
On The Way 