Friday when Sharon and I took off for the Knight Library in Eugene it was sooo foggy… even the sun didn’t make a difference… We were heading to the Knight Library at U of O which houses the archive of drawings of landscape architects Elizabeth Lord and Edith Schryver. Sharon and I are curating a […]
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…And More Snow…
Well I got thinking I had a photo of our early Salem years…a snow storm in Bush Park…in the corner of the park near Deepwood gardens…and I found it…December 1971, before I REALLY realized it doesn’t snow that often in Oregon (unlike the mid-west). My memory of that year is being amazed that city snow […]
Winter Wonderland….
I was going through some historic images today of the Lord & Schryver garden at Deepwood and found these wonderful shots from the 1950’s of a snow storm in the scroll garden plus this lovely one that ALMOST gets you in the mood for snow!
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 […]
Saturday night at the ER
As I’ve listened to people comment on this blog they say “Oh you have too much fun” or “What a life you lead…all fun” and I think my impulse for happy and interesting talk is correct…but any life has other stuff too. Blogging and carrying a camera all the time makes you kind of into […]
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.
Quilt thoughts…
Once you start thinking about (and working on) quilts…well, you find them everywhere. Sitting down with my quilt the other night (I’m alllllmost done with the hand quilting) we plugged in the netflix, “The Seven Year Itch…” (Marilyn Monroe) and on came the credits…OMG and then this morning in the paper was a nice article […]
On The Way 