Busy week here with the usual wide variety of things to think about. We headed to White Salmon Wednesday for a night in the Mt. Hood room and a George Domijan dinner…plus a huckleberry G&T… Then all four of us took off for Madras for my opening. We ran into an amazing storm combination…thunder, rain […]
Category: Trees
Summer at the Hallie Ford Museum…
We went to the museum this morning to see the new show of Jacob Lawrence’s illustrations of Aesop’s Fables which opened August 3rd and runs through October 27th. The drawings were done in the late 1960’s for a book of the fables, the originals now part of the Paul G. Allen Family Collection. They are […]
…And Speaking of Gardens…
A couple of weeks ago I spent three days in the Gaiety Hollow garden, the home garden of landscape architects Elizabeth Lord and Edith Schryver. The L&S Conservancy asked me to do some drawings for their upcoming fund raising campaign…a campaign to repay the generous donor who bought the house and garden, and is allowing […]
The Week in Review …
(leaving out all politics…). After a stormy beach weekend we returned Monday to the chaos of home renovation…the week brought a new floor, paint, and the shower tile going in…here are the visuals: Friday I took a break and headed over to pick up Jon and Irene and head out for lunch to the MIG […]
Friday Follow Up
First and foremost, I made a mistake on the location of Rochelle and Nate Rafn’s new restaurant. It will open early in June at 479 Court (next door to Olson’s Florist)…(that used to be Quizno’s sandwich shop…) Thanks to my neighbor Jason Heimerdinger and David at the Statesman Journal, disaster was averted…because if you went […]
Tree Memorial…
Checked the tree status yesterday…two still standing, tree memorials intact…
Save This Tree…
As you can see this last tree near the front door of U.S.Bank’s Ladd and Bush Branch is healthy and beautiful… It would be such a vote of confidence for this community, a community that doesn’t like to think of a NON-community bank altering our landscape so dramatically, if this one tree could be saved. […]
The Narrative of Street Trees…
In any city, even a small one like ours, the trees tell stories…who planted them, who decided, when they were planted. And on. As luck would have it, I happened to be down at the Ladd and Bush Bank Friday photographing a moment… just as David Rosales was being arrested for his protest of the […]
Street Trees, Again…
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 […]
On The Way 