When you get all the way to the west coast, you almost feel like you’ve gone a little bit back east, lots of trees, rivers, prettiness. But you have to go through the REAL west to get to the west coast…and it is an elegant landscape in our state. Friday, the start of a promised […]
There is no doubt about it…it’s fall. Chilly mornings, clear bright sun, a little rain…a good season here in the Northwest…BUT, time to put the garden to bed. We’ve been weeding, pruning, tossing stuff in the garden bin like crazy… …though in one little corner the geraniums and begonias seem blissfully unaware… Today, very early, […]
Sometimes you just have to sit on your hands and let it all roll over you…in a good way. Friday night was the Sponenburgh Lecture for 2014 at Willamette University…this time a favorite son. Adam Stennett graduated from Willamette in 1994 and two weeks later he was in New York City seeking his fortune as […]
Lots is going on in the person-manipulated natural world today in Salem. First a visit to Gaiety Hollow, the Lord and Schryver home garden, where a crew of volunteers were putting down newspaper mulch in an effort to tame the hideous aegopodium…a nasty weed. on to Martha’s where Big Trees Today (I love them, they […]
This post is probably going to be in the “too much information” category for most of you…but I HAVE to do it. It does, however, explain why it has been so quiet from these parts for awhile. We’ve been hunkering down while this very old house has been thoroughly gone over, repaired and painted in […]
My Mom was born on September 2, 1923. If she were alive today she would be 91. Alas, she left us at 88, but the photos remain to remind us of a lively person who loved her life. Happy Birthday Mama! (With apologies to my three handsome brothers who have been omitted…I’ll have to work […]
Okay, maybe you’ve had enough of Cutler City…but if not, here’s a little more….the Bay House Restaurant is the structure at the far right…Cutler City Cafe in those days… Here’s the original Crab Pot under construction… and we used to have a dock back in the day…(Tyko once told me it was to load timber…but […]
I’m sort of mad today. Our beach time in this house dates from 1992. Our neighborhood is adorable… Rugosas and their rose hips line the path to the beach… the view of the Bay constantly changes and always enchants… …but there is a fly in the ointment. Tim. He owns the house next door […]
Well I was wanting to make that yummy blueberry Chutney I made last year (once again with blueberries from Minto Island Growers) and I could NOT find the recipe…then I noted that somebody had clicked on “Blueberry Chutney” on my blog and…VOILA… there it was from last summer…from the Oregonian Cookbook of 2012, (page 240) […]
Currently showing (until October 5) at the La Conner Quilt and Textile Museum in La Conner, Washington, is a remarkable show of Japanese quilts…quilts made in response to the disastrous tsunami that decimated the eastern part of Japan three years ago. Nearly 9000 quits were made and sent by American and Japanese quilters to comfort […]
On The Way 