Yesterday was the first really spring-like day: warm, sunny, blue sky. I took my bike out to Minto and rode the full 7 miles with only a little fanny fatigue. Then off to Kiki’s for a salade nicoise and tales of her trip to France. Surprisingly for me, also a reprise of birthday week with […]
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Patience, Dear Readers…
The blog administrators of wordpress.com have changed the interior blog format, the “dashboard” of the blog (the part you don’t see). For some reason as yet totally unknown, I’m having a hard time adding in photos (“uploading” as they say). As this blog is image related, this is a bit of a struggle at the […]
Bread & Ink
Did you ever eat at Bread & Ink on Hawthorne? I love to go there because they have paper on the tables so I can draw while everybody else talks and eats. Recently went there with George and Jennifer (R’s sis and mate) and the adorable Fanny. Fanny and I were sitting across from the […]
“VIEW WEST”
I nearly rear-ended somebody Saturday when I was driving along and saw they’d moved my painting in the Mayor’s Invitational Show at the Conference Center–putting it in the window. It’s not what I’m doing now but it looked sort of sweet with it’s horizon line matched with Paul Strauch’s painting. Check it out, as Randy […]
The Key Coat
We were in the museum this weekend looking at the Piranesi show and peeked at the installation of sculpture by Andries Fourie. One thing in the show is the key coat, pictured here with an additional earlier photo of Roger WEARING the key coat. Andries hails from South Africa and the coat was his grandfather’s. […]
A SAD TREE
I was thinking these blue things looked rather beautiful in the tree until I read the sign that said each blue streamer represents a child abuse case in Oregon in 2006. What is wrong with our world.
Fenestration Disaster
Willamette University thinks of itself as the Harvard of the west but I’m pretty sure Harvard wouldn’t do this to a lovely old historic building–in this case Salem’s old Carnegie Library, now owned by the University. They removed the historic windows–the criss-cross sections were actually glazed in the original version. The beautiful articulated wooden frames […]
CHICAGO
A conversation last night about Chicago reminded me of my visit last May. The city has become so much more beautiful in the years we’ve been away that we were amazed and delighted at every turn. Just the most obvious: “The Bean” The fountain on Michigan Avenue in Millenium Park. Videos of different faces (and […]
The Portland Horse Project
Becky sent me an email this morning with a link to the website describing this grass-roots project: http://www.horseproject.net/ She wrote an article for Portland Magazine a few years ago about it. Do take a look as it IS cool.
Mending…
Okay–who even REMEMBERS mending. Besides me, I mean. My Mom would have a basket of socks to be mended and would sit and mend them by putting the “darning egg” in the sock and then sort of re-weaving the fabric to cover the hole. My friend Karen reminded me yesterday of the lovely store “And […]
On The Way 