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The Trip Part 3: Anniversaries and Weddings

01 Sunday Oct 2017

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We like Palm Springs, which runs a bit against type, but that is life I guess, so goodbye Bakersfield.  This trip was organized around the wish of a friend to have Roger give a toast at her wedding, taking place in far southern Arizona…Sierra Vista… where her parents live.  Though the wedding itself occurred on our son’s birthday and we’d be on the road for our anniversary, we decided to go anyway.

A road trip is an interesting and contemplative time, worth doing for that reason almost.  And a lot of our contemplation on this trip involved the duel coming crisis of water and power as global warming increases our woes, and the seemingly more insupportable American life style of BIG cars and pick-ups, massive strip malls, and all the rest…the things we know about but shove to the back of our minds.  Out here in the west though, evidence is everywhere…

but I digress….time to celebrate the 48th anniversary of a serious, hilarious and fascinating partnership…ours.  Heading to Palm Springs we arrived at Ron’s airbnb

and the champagne was ready for us!  And the pool and hot-tub…bliss after a hot drive…

Cheers Dear!  Off we go into year 49…

and on to Sierra Vista…a longgggg drive.

IS there a Sierra Vista?  Yep…

and the next day we jump into wedding festivities…rehearsal dinner and our first meeting with the groom…he’s a delight.  Hugging kissing, good wishes all around…

and back at the motel nobody at all is in the pool so we swim and soak…I do some sewing…

and soon it’s time to head to the wedding…Gavin and Aleesa, who met at UC Santa Barbara, have been conducting a long distance relationship for over two years…he’s been in England doing post-doc work in physics and she finishing her PhD in Art history in Santa Barbara…they have traveled together and have absolutely mastered the selfie…

But the day was sunny, the bride was beautiful, the groom was handsome…

the friends and family were all there…

(I’ll admit to following this guy around…his coat is a Gucci…)

Aleesa’s Mom is Thai and part of the wedding ceremony included the Buddhist water ceremony where each guest poured water from a conch shell onto the the hands of the couple, giving a wish…(this was where I cried)…we had to line up according to age, ahem, I saw them early on…

it was definitely east meets west…

Everybody was pretty happy …

and then, after food and chat Roger gave the first toast…to the bride and groom…

and after fond goodbyes we got ready to head out the next day for Phoenix and Flagstaff…more art on the horizon…but getting out of Sierra Vista wasn’t just a straight shot…

 

 

 

 

 

August Pursuits

06 Sunday Aug 2017

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August and December are months when, for me anyway, not much art gets made because of family, gatherings, celebrations, weather…and so on.  And speaking of weather….we’re having a heat wave…last week three days in triple digits…so Tuesday when we left town it was already 99 but, blissfully, we arrived at the beach and it was a comfortable 66…52 miles away but over the mountains and down to the ocean.

The next day Sidney & Co arrived which livened things up considerably…

and we had a nice week of delicious meals (made by Z & A) and drawing and fun…

Spaceships….

Aliens…

the beach…

As the temperatures cooled the schedule of activities became a reality so off we went

taking the back road…

which we love, but only if we have time for the CARWASH INTERLUDE…

Which we did, so off to the wedding.  Meg, the daughter of R’s cousin Mary, was marrying Bryan and it was a lovely event with lots of time to catch up with family…however, the chairs were all in the blazing sun except for one little corner that George staked out for us so we sat in the back row…

which, as it turned out, gave me a good vantage point for catching a few pictures of the wedding party…however I wasn’t the only one who thought this was a good spot…

Never mind…Mary and son Al were all smiles…

…I got a few good shots (though I couldn’t hear what Jeff said to Meg as he walked her down the isle)…

and the Hulls took over table 5

the bride was beautiful, the groom was handsome and the room was filled with people who were happy and loving…though there was a bit of photo chaos…

but Rayanne got the shot…

Home we zoomed to repack the bags…next adventure ahead…

 

 

 

 

 

Goodbye February

29 Monday Feb 2016

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Well busy, yep, but sick…that nasty chest cold stuff going around.  We retreated to the beach where we could cough in unison, we discovered…and be restored…

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We even got well enough to do a little pruning…the wisteria for instance…

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no need to cut the rosemary back…the fence guy took care of that…

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all that’s left…for the fire…

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but we headed back to the valley to get ready for Sidney Monday, and had a great day which included a trip to Duplex where Sidney visited with Otto and R chatted about the Corvallis faculty print show now up…Included were two prints of Nelson Sandgren’s.  Sandgren (1917-2006) is the next show curated by Roger Hull at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art, and it opens in mid-May…and will include a monograph R has written on Nelson and his work …”Nelson Sandgren: An Artist’s Life”…you’ll want a copy…Duplex

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Lunch was at Laughing Planet today where the dinosaurs were very curious about the camera…

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but mostly I think they were just hungry and thirsty…

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Dinosaur hug…

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This Thursday a new show goes up at the Compass Gallery…”Just Tulips” opening on Thursday March 10, 5-7.  Better come see…more on that this week…

 

 

The Wedding Quilt

27 Thursday Dec 2012

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When she heard Zach and Ashton were getting married,  my sister in law LeeAnn immediatelsuggested we make a quilt…because she’s a quilter.  She suggested she make half the blocks and I make half the blocks, and she chose a Becky Goldsmith applique pattern.  Each block could vary between 9 and 11 inches wide, and would be 14 inches tall.  We chose a loose range of colors for the backgrounds (blue-green), and leaves (green).  Since she lives in Seattle, I’d make my blocks, send them to her, and she would put the top together.  She then brought the top to me.  Because we were doing this long distance, we took photos of our progress to send back and forth…hence I have lots of photos of this project (when I usually am lucky to have one photo of a quilt at all!!).  I thought I might finish the quilt before the wedding last August, but it was a bigger and more time consuming project than I had imagined.  Since I believe in the karma of hand-quilting, I didn’t want to quilt into the finished piece any days of anguish or frantic work.  It had to be quilted in calm, as much as possible.  I finished the quilt just before Christmas and the gift was given.  (They liked it!)  Since I have all these photos I thought it mike make a nice story here.  Here are my first few blocks…

wedding quilt beginning

and LeeAnn’s…

LeeAnn's squares

once we saw each others’ blocks…(her plaid and print backgrounds, my red and orange leaves) we through caution to the winds and just went for it.

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Then she took all the blocks and evened the rows with varied widths of orange and red strips…

WQ coming together

I put it together…

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and then I started quilting…every which way…different colors…little messages…

Leaves love Bam

I even made a quilting proto-type…

quilting prototype  Z&A

Just the quilt

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They liked it!

Functioning in the Heat…

15 Wednesday Aug 2012

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R is high-functioning, as you know.  Heat doesn’t seem to stop him.  He doesn’t sit around complaining like some of us (ahem)…he just keeps on going.  Here he is dancing with his cousin Lisa at Zach’s wedding (102 AT LEAST!)

(The two of them used to write novels together when they were growing up in northern Idaho…Lisa’s an academic at Rutgers, and they are both still writing…not fiction though…usually…)  And the Manuel Izquierdo manuscript is almost done, but last night it was tooooo hot in the upstairs office so R set up shop in the front parlor…

I DID go to uke class today and then, of course, Sharon and Carol and I had to have a coffee…

and then straight into the shade for me…keep cool out there you guys…

The Wedding Countdown…Two More Days…

02 Thursday Aug 2012

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This is probably the last pre-wedding post I’ll make…tomorrow, “one more day,” will involve us getting up early to cut dahlias at Sharon’s, zooming to Portland, the rehearsal and dinner, etc….I guess I’ll make one more big wedding post AFTER the fact…and then it will be back to “On The Way” as you know it (…and thanks for indulging me, readers.)

Today, on this day, it is about family.  Both Zach and Ashton are only children, and neither seemed spoiled, but both were adored by parents and grandparents, aunts and uncles, close family friends.  Here we go…

and of course I have MANY more photos of Zach…

and, believe it or not, I managed to find a photo of BM Rob and GW Becky with Zach!!!

okay…enough already…let’s get packing!!

Wedding Countdown…3 more days…

01 Wednesday Aug 2012

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As the wedding nears I’m abandoning all thoughts of keeping my usual blog on an even keel, and moving straight to “Zach and Ashton:  The Teenage Years.”  Well, they were both beautiful teenagers…ladies first:  here’s Ashton at 15…

and here at 17 with her Mom Cheryl…

Zach at about 15…

and at 17…with David B….

they graduated from high school…

and they both have have been good at keeping their friends through all the years…

Here’s Ashton with MOH Amy and BM Britt…

Ashton and BM Maile

and Zach with GM Blair…

and GM Matthew…

(Rob and Becky were college friends and evaded being photo’d by me)…time is running short but the fun still lies ahead….

but I think I forgot to mention that Ashton is a gardener…

and this is how their house looked in May of 2011…

and then in June of 2012…

(…the garden flowing over the Zach-made concrete wall…)

Wedding Countdown…5 more days…

30 Monday Jul 2012

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My work at Project Space is winding down.  I went in on Saturday and rearranged…

Here’s a quick review of what’s happening down there (and let me remind you that you can click on these small thumbnail photos to see the image in a larger format)

…with another reminder that Wednesday is “First Wednesday” and there will be an “opening” and some fun…better come…

Zach and Ashton, meanwhile, were discovered to have had virtually identical haircuts at a certain point:

AND the lives of both have been witnessed from the beginning by people who love them…(besides their adoring parents I mean…)

Wedding Countdown…6 more days…

29 Sunday Jul 2012

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Sunday…our neighbor’s apple tree is collapsing branch by branch due to a too heavy crop of apples…

so R is lightening the load on our side by making some apple sauce today…they are gravensteins, an early apple, so he thinks the sauce will be tasty…

Zach and Ashton both took an interest in cooking at an early age…

and costumes have ALWAYS been important…