We were on our way to Seattle to see Bru and LeeAnn, but we stopped at the Tacoma Art Museum on the way…have you been there?? Well you should go, as it is soooo beautiful and small, manageable, lovely. First off, of course, we had to have a coffee in the museum coffee shop which […]
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Henk Pander at the Hallie Ford Museum
Just a reminder that the Henk Pander show opens January 28th at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art in Salem, with a lecture on Pander’s work by Roger Hull at 5:00 that day in the Paulus lecture hall at the Law School (1 block from the museum): the water colors and drawings went on view […]
Dazzling Day #2…
These bright and sunny January days are a gift…we read the paper at coffee time and the rain starts again on Thursday, BUT, for today, we were in the sunshine. Here’s our beautiful Cutler City, the row of dark trees on the other side of Siletz Bay: we walked the beach at Nelscott…well…R walked the […]
Presentation is all…
Every year R goes to the beach for a week before Christmas for his “winter retreat” which includes reading books, taking beach walks, drinking some scotch and…putting together some wacky and wonderful Christmas gifts. His wrappings sometimes include plastic vegetable bags, shells, unidentifiable items that are familiar yet not…boxes, tins, plastic containers. These are imaginative […]
…The Day After….
It was…indeed…a perfect Christmas…for all the right reasons. Preparing for the season was fun and lively. Even the shortest and darkest days were sweet…BUT, I have to admit…today starts a season I really look forward to as much as the holidays. We head toward the light, new art work begins in earnest, the possibilities for […]
Finding the Christmas Spirit…
First turn on ALL the tree lights next make a put of tea, carefully choosing the “summer cup” to keep you looking ahead… plug in the tunes while making lamb/white bean soup: watch the baby goat video Joan sent and MAKE A CARDAMOM CAKE!!! (You won’t be sorry…) CARDAMOM CAKE (freezes well…) 1/2# butter 1 […]
Christmas Fun…
We went over to Linda and Greg’s House the other night and Greg told us about growing up in Coos Bay and how his mother (now over 90) had been active in Eastern Star and had a closet full of “formals”, in the old time sense of “formals.” When she moved to the valley she […]
Christmas Ghosts
Yesterday my sister-in-law LeeAnn put a post on her quilting blog about Christmas stockings…hers and my brother Bruce’s from their childhoods. Of course I had to go hunting for our Christmas stockings, which we haven’t put out for a few years. When I was about 9 and Bru was a baby my Mom made these […]
The Christmas Studio
I really have gotten the BEST Christmas present ever (and early)…my new studio. Today was one of those Oregon days…dark, pouring rain…I mean POURING rain…ick. So, I thought, what better to do than go to the studio. (the building behind, by the way, is Legal Aid…not our house.) This photo was taken about 3:00, which […]
Related only by color…
Guess I’m staying pretty quiet this week…not too much happening in my world so maybe the stuff right at home base gets looked at. First out in the studio playing around with Christmas card designs then after trimming the wisteria I noticed these little roses twining in the rosemary POURING cold rain tonight…off to bed.
On The Way 