Drawing is one of my favorite activities, and this weekend in Salem there were some fun opportunities, if you like to draw with a group…and sometimes I do. (My brother How turned me on to the Urban Sketchers blog a few years ago…the tag line is “seeing the world one drawing at a time”.) Saturday […]
There are beauties about living in a small place, partly born out in being able to know the people who do fun things around you. In the last few days I’ve been able to appreciate Salem from various angles. On Saturday we went to the CCTV studio to be the audience for our favorite band […]
I took a new little studio this fall to do a drawing project away from my home studio. It was very economical, in an historic structure, plenty of parking, 4 minutes from home. It has been a pleasant and quiet place to work so far…and even though I share the space, I rarely coincide with […]
Annually, in the fall when the geese start south, we start thinking of doing something “new” in the house. “The Fall Fix-up” we call it. This year the project is growing like topsy…it began with just painting the trim around the upstairs windows after they were repaired, and then we decided to switch rooms on […]
The Salem Public Library Foundation has raised the money for improvements to and enlargement of the Children’s Room at the Library (thank you donors!). The project is underway at the library right now, with hopes to have it ready and open this December. As part of the project, the Foundation asked Salem sculptor Kristin Kuhns […]
Mary Lou Zeek’s pop-up gallery show opens Friday night May 9th for one week only…but what a week! From May 10th to May 16 you can visit 211 Commercial Street NE downtown from 11-5 daily to see the work of 35 of your FAVORITE local artists (including moi). Today I delivered 2 paintings, and my […]
Well, I’m beginning to think Italian thoughts, as we get organized for our trip this spring. The other day I felt the “Spring trajectory” cross the “Italian trajectory” in my head and…presto…RISOTTO! Our totally terrific local fish store FITTS SEAFOOD makes wonderful broth…halibut, chicken, fish stock and shrimp broth. They make the broth there at […]
Ellen Stevens and a group of citizens is working on saving the beautiful Church Street Bridge. It was built in 1928 and designed by then Salem bridge engineer R.A.Furrow, one-time colleague of well-known bridge designer Conde McCullough. The bridge is a beauty… spanning Pringle Creek (which is a pretty swollen, roaring body of water today…due […]
Went downtown tonight to Ike Box.. to hear photographer Barry Shapiro talk about 45 years of taking photos (“the images are all out there…I take them”) we sat with photographer Barbara Rowland, who had to leave early, So she gave me her ticket…they were giving away one of Barry’s photos as a door prize… […]
Well, definitely gray Friday, anyway. Snow and chill predicted to be on the way… The other day a white pick-up pulled up in front of our house and two young persons jumped out, raked up all the leaves in front in the street, and drove away. ?????Composters? Neighborhood helpers? A new eau de vie? The […]
On The Way 