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THE GARDEN STUDIO…
Today Bill came and pulled up the bricks where the trench for the electrical will go then came the super fun part…painting the white line. Tomorrow PGE will come to check before we dig: Wednesday Bill comes back and digs the trench…
George Johanson at PNCA
Up to PNCA this evening to hear George talk about “Seven Decades as a Painter” at the PNCA alumni evening: There was a reception and all of George’s paintings to contemplate…and then the lights went down and we were welcomed by college president Tom Manley and then it was George’s turn: George graduated from the […]
Kay Worthington in Corvallis…
Kay’s show opened Thursday night at the Corvallis Art Center housed in a former episcopal church at 700 SW Madison Street… It was the usual array of handsomely constructed items including quilts, wooden constructions, paper construction and a set of nine lovely colored pencil drawings The show is up until October 23rd…go take a look!
Molokai Views…
Here’s a quick review of our week on Molokai from the ridiculous to the sublime…a gorgeous but sad view of Kalaupapa, the leper colony. In the 1800’s people would bring those ill with leprosy and dump them into the surf and paddle away. Sight of incredible suffering and breathtakingly beautiful. After 1969, due to sulfa […]
Na Wahine O Ke Kai
Every year paddlers from around the islands, and around the world, come to Molokai for a big race. In September teams of women come to race the 42 miles across to Oahu, around Diamond Head to Wakiki (in October it will be the men’s turn). Though the finish of the race is glitzy, the start […]
The Quilted Conversation…
This morning we went over to see the show of Kay’s and my quilts at Bush Barn that went up while R and I were gone. Included were the quilts Kay and I each made in “conversation” plus the one we collaborated on this summer. The show looks good but is in a dark space […]
Wind Towers???
On the drive from the airport to our condo we discovered immediately the big controversy on Molokai…wind power. They don’t want it, or more precisely, they don’t want it on historic pieces of land. Totally sympathetic to the need to preserve history, I also saw immediately that it’s very windy there and that wind towers […]
ALOHA…
I know, I know, there’s nothing worse than somebody else’s vacation. But…I DID take a lot of photos so, of course, YOU must suffer. I plan to play them out in small increments so as not to be too boring. We flew from Portland to Maui arriving just in time… to jump onto a 9 […]
Off we go!!!
The “site” is ready the pots are watered the hydrangeas are cut and the bags are packed…see you in October!!!
On The Way 