Beautiful gardens abound in Salem, but here’s a peek at two I’ve visited recently. The first is the garden of my “garden mentor” Irene. Years ago the late Oregonian garden columnist Dulcy Mahar wrote that if you were having trouble with your garden, the BEST thing to do was to find a garden you admired, […]
Category: Trees
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 […]
This and That…
Thanksgiving was fun with turkey and family and all that good stuff…though I didn’t take time out to photo it all, since I was the hostess, so just think of your own day, and ditto that for ours. Besides my lovely family and a tummy full of good food, I’m thankful this year for the […]
Manuel Izquierdo, “The Dreamer”
This fall Roger has begun to prepare to write a book on sculptor Manuel Izquierdo, and to curate the show of Izquierdo’s work, which opens at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art in January of 2013. There will be many trips, conversations, interviews, library hours…ahead this winter and spring as the event and the document […]
BOO!!!
A little interval in my sewing marathon over here on Court Street. Yesterday we went to a concert/lecture about “classicism” as it occurs in the work of Raphael and Rossini…first the lecture by Ricardo and Marva… followed by a concert in the lobby…here Marva and Dan, but also some operatic thrills and trills (sadly missing […]
The leafy canopy…
So the very next morning after Alisa’s dinner I heard the now-all-too-familiar sound of chain saws buzzing. I ran out to the deck only to discover a guy in the 40 foot tall walnut tree in the yard behind us. I quickly snapped a picture of the tree before he got started… and ever hopeful […]
Surgery…
TREE surgery that is. Last week we noticed this sign on a tree across the street… and really, when we stepped back and LOOKED at the tree we saw it was a bit sick looking, and at the base of the trunk somebody in the neighborhood had sprinkled rose petals…as a last tribute? And today, […]
Midsummer interlude…
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 […]
Lord & Schryver
Saturday there was a tour of Lord & Schryver gardens and it was the PERFECT day…sunny and warm (but not too warm). We went first to Gaiety Hollow…Lord and Schryver’s home garden…the allee with the 300 year old oak tree was cool and inviting (though in spring it’s a riot of color), the brick paths […]
L&S…the pickup…
Yesterday Sharon and I met at the museum to go with collections curator Jonathan Bucci to the Knight Library in Eugene to pick up the drawings for the show of Lord & Schryver work that Sharon and I are curating (opening at the Hallie Ford Museum on June 22, 2011…more to come)… The helpful librarians […]
On The Way 