I hate to talk about the weather but it REFUSES to become late spring/early summer here in Oregon in every way except for the delicious light, with us until 9:30 p.m. or so. Last week was the Gilbert House Garden tour with about 400 people through the gardens in 2 days but, AMAZINGLY, the sun […]
Category: Trees
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 […]
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:
The Sublime and the Ridiculous…
Anna’s tree in full bloom today, after three warm days. Spring is here. Anna’s house backs on the creek right at the bridge and some very lazy person forgot their shopping cart today. But no matter, the tree must be gorgeous from inside Anna’s house.
These Trees
I haven’t always captured photos of these trees, but I have noticed the tendency people have to plant them against walls. Then the trees begin to grow and kind of groan and wail and dance and carry on. Have you seen them around?? They begin to have personalities sort of. The five on the left […]
And Speaking of Brothers…
My brother Bruce in Seattle is a talented photographer. A month or so ago I tried to pirate one of his images to put in this blog but it was so tiny it didn’t work. He very generously gave me a better-sized image so I could post it for you. His real interest is in […]
On The Way 