Our quilt group meets the first Tuesday of the month. I’m the newby and haven’t been to see everybody’s work and sewing room yet….so was bowled over today when we met at Ethelwyne’s house in the country. She had the welcome sign out for us on her porch… and we saw her sewing room… with […]
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“Pullet Shut”
Today at the urban farm there were a few projects to be worked on: move the chicken coop, install the new automatic door on the chicken coop, and move the composters. R, Z and A got to work, while I played with Sidney…good division of labor from my point of view. The new door for […]
Eunice Parsons at the PNAA
An exciting day this week when Eunice Parsons brought her papers to the PNAA (Pacific Northwest Artists Archive) at the Willamette University Library. Roger Hull and archivist Mary McRobinson have been actively collecting the “papers” (correspondence, drawing books, clippings, photographs, exhibition announcements, cassette interviews) of Oregon artists since 1997…an invaluable resource for researchers working on […]
The Church Street Bridge
Ellen Stevens and a group of citizens is working on saving the beautiful Church Street Bridge. It was built in 1928 and designed by then Salem bridge engineer R.A.Furrow, one-time colleague of well-known bridge designer Conde McCullough. The bridge is a beauty… spanning Pringle Creek (which is a pretty swollen, roaring body of water today…due […]
TOO Much Fun…
Kate invited me along to her quilt group this morning, and what a fun group they are. A variety of ages, a variety of interests, and very welcoming. Our hostess was Linda whose entire house is a quilting treasure trove…here’s a brief tour…she collects buttons… including this cute as a button pup named Buttons… and […]
John Brodie/Debra Beers/Ted Vogel
On our way to and from seeing Sidney (our current priority!) we swung through some college art galleries and saw a couple of terrific shows. Portland artist John Brodie’s show “Versus Artifacts” is up at the Linfield College Gallery until March 22 and is well worth a trip to McMinnville.. This one is called “Hello, […]
Lampshade Makeover!
Wow this lampshade on the kitchen table at the beach was really dingy after 20 years…time for an update…and it only took an hour or so….looks FAB when turned off, not so good when turned on…better when I applied marker around the painted images…here’s how it went…back to the drawing board?
Henk Pander, Louis Bunce, and Georgette Jones
We headed to Portland last weekend to look at art…and found some before we ever hit the galleries… Stopped in to Laura Russo to catch up with Henk Pander’s big, muscular watercolors… and while we were there R pulled out some Louis Bunce paintings as the “Louis Bunce Season” is starting up…this piece was one […]
Snowpocalypse? Snowmageddon? Valentines??
As it turns out, none of the above were reasons why I took a little blog vacation…it was the more mundane collapse of my computer and the subsequent purchase and installation of a NEW computer as well as…of course…the installation of a new printer that would “interface” (I actually don’t like that word) with said […]
Snow Day
There is something really nice about a snow day…a day without walls, a stay-in-your- jammies-all-day-if-you-want kind of day, as Ellen says (she lives in Vermont where snow days are more prevalent). I hear they are calling this “Snowpocalypse 2014”, this weekend we are entering. (Growing up in the mid-west, a scant half of an inch […]
On The Way 