I promise this is the last chapter of our Italian adventure…for this year anyway! Well after our fabulous “groupo” took off, we had a brief but lovely four days in Florence (here a view from the roof garden atop the Hotel Grand Baglioni), with our beautiful niece Fanny wherein Roger toured her through streets and […]
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House Progress…
Z & A’s house is done and looking pretty nice…attention is now being turned to the gardens which have suffered between construction and painting…take a look! Before: during: after:
The Quilt Show in Sisters
So…the last 4th of July firecracker had hardly sounded when the REBELS scooped me up and we were off to Sisters for three days of quilting, quilts and fun. I was signed up for a class with the ladies from Gee’s Bend and had a sack of fabric ready to take… The first night though, […]
The Winery Visit…
One afternoon we went out to Altesino vineyard to see the wine-making set-up there. We’d been there in 2008 and were amazed at the increase in production…the site is still amazingly beautiful…not unlike our own Oregoon wine country… except for the cypresses that signal Tuscany… The wood barrels first… I really liked the oak leaf […]
Pienza
We had never been to Pienza…a lovely little hill town with a GORGEOUS small renaissance piazza built by Piccolomini…who later became Pope Pius the second in 1458. Designed by Bernardo Rossellino…student of Alberti…it was envisioned as the “ideal city” and in many ways, it is… and not only did we touristical types like it, it […]
Italia 2011
Amici! Home at last with a few tales to tell…guess maybe I’ll drag it out… in installments? Leaving Portland at the end of May we checked the Louis Bunce mural of 1956 in the airport, once so controversial…now just plain beautiful… had our last American coffee and then jumped onto the plane where we were […]
Getting Ready to go…
Now this morning I can’t remember HOW I made that post from my iPad last night…but I guess if I figured it out once I can figure it out again? In the meantime we ‘ve finished the garden projects met with the friends who will join us in Italy and aside from packing there isn’t […]
Test number 2
Trying to figure out how to make a post from iPad…no success so far
Car Moment…
While I like to keep the blog non-commercial (except for coffee…), I have to report on our latest consumer moment. We got a new car. We had a 17 year old car and an 18 year old car and we were feeling the need for more reliable transportation. In our long lives together we had […]
L&S…the Photo Session…and on
Yesterday was a busy one, beginning in the basement of the Hallie Ford Museum where the excellent Frank Miller came to photograph a few of the Lord & Schryver drawings for publicity use. Frank arrived with tons of equipment and quickly set up…ready to shoot: My CO-curator Sharon Rose was on hand, and the first […]
On The Way 