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 […]
Category: Salem
Saturday Catch-up…
Wow… a busy three days have zoomed by over here in the far west. In chronological order (I’m influenced by an art historian here…) it looked like this…celebrate Jim’s birthday (and it was a major one…) have breakfast with artists…good talk, good breakfast… go get LAST (5th) cast removed, into “the boot”, and actually SEE […]
Hallie Ford Museum of Art
Friday is Member Appreciation Day at the Hallie Ford Museum of art. There will be tours and chats and food…it will be fun. This little museum takes the art of Oregon and our region very seriously, producing many wonderful shows every year of work in and out of our region…and if you aren’t already a […]
The Light Returns
Thursday we headed down to the river to sip a coffee and take a view and the light was beautiful…and, well, LIGHT! and just a month ago it was dark by 5:00!! Yippee!!!
Old East Salem
A recent conversation I had with a friend about what Salem used to look like, sent me to my photo “archive” to take a look. Here’s the building at 12th Street and Center Street today and here’s the old East School just before demolition in 1950 to make way for the Safeway… and going a […]
Creek Fun…
I talked to Karen on the phone this morning, and I said I was uninspired blog-wise today. She said …”Go to the west side of the Church Street bridge over Pringle Creek, and look down. You’ll like it…” I did go, and I DID like it…you?
Studio visit…1900
I guess you know I love to visit artists and their studios…always hoping for some insight I think…and often I get some. This picture came across my “desk” (HAH!) last week and I was pretty fascinated by it. This studio was in Salem, probably about 1900 or so, in a barn owned by artist Myra […]
Inauguration Day…2-10-12…
A big day at the university as Stephen E. Thorsett became the 25th president of Willamette University. Susan and I got there early to get a seat… and the auditorium and the stage slowly filled with flags and scholars until Chaplain Charlie Wallace began with an invocation… Many scholars and students, university presidents and tribal […]
Tree Topper Extraordinaire…
While I was stopped at a red light downtown yesterday, a big gull flew down and landed right on top of this tree and I HAD to take this picture…though by the time I got my camera out the light was green and there was honking…I considered it festive Christmas honking…I mean who among you […]
Follow-up to the Moving Experience…
Today wasn’t the BEST day for photographing, but here are all those buildings that were moved, as they look today in their “new” locations… Gatke Hall (formerly the Salem post office) has been newly refurbished by Willamette University and looks pretty smashing with the new trim color (…now if they would just replace the striped […]
On The Way 