I was musing lately on how everything has a name now…a guy name mostly…here’s Mac on a Jonas “Jonas” came from IKEA…and not only do you get the nice desk that has made your life more organized after only one day (9 months later it’s a bit messier…) BUT, you get the very interesting graphic […]
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Quilts hit the road…
Travel time. I’m putting the last bit of quilting on the collaboration quilt, and off it goes to Kay for her to finish. (The show goes up the first week of October at Bush Barn Art Center…Quiltopia week…) the “reconfigured” wedding ring (the Project Space project) goes along with me to Hawaii, with my goal […]
Happy Birthday Lynn!!!
This is me (Goldie) and Lynn Shoenut Yaney (Dusty), the gold dust twins, in the Detroit, Michigan bus station in the middle of the night sometime about 1967. We were roommates. This was before husbands, babies, careers, restaurants and ad agencies, before writing and painting and gardening. Before travel. Before love and deaths. September 12th […]
The “Q” Breakfast…
Every day calligrapher Karen Runkel sends out a quote to her devoted group of followers from her vast 40 year collection of quotes. Today (though she invited a third of her subscribers–the locals–which might be 100 souls total?) 4 of us showed up to join her at Alcyone for baked eggs: …painter Sue-Del on the […]
“Tales From the Back Porch”
That’s the title of the Corrie Loomis-Dietz/Paula Portinga Booth show now on at George Fox University until October 21 in the Minthorne Gallery in the Hoover Academic Building on campus. Well worth a trip up to see it. Kay and I drove up today to hear Corrie and Paula talk about their work. The placed […]
Crazy Quilts
Until I have the new studio and can paint, it’s quilts all the way. I was reading Barbara Brackman’s blog this morning about crazy quilts which sent me to my own photo archive. A few years ago I happened into the Lincoln County Historical Museum at the end of the quilt inventory day, people brought […]
Salem Bicycle Taxi
Did you know that Salem has a bike taxi (2 in fact)?? One is always available around town and Michele can pick you up anytime and take you to your destination without burning any carbon fuel. Call her. Michele Darr, Salem Bicycle Taxi at 503-569-7223. Michele’s husband Mark Babson is developing a bike tour of […]
Goodbye Laurel Tree…
John and Paul are here today and tomorrow “clearing the site” for the new “garden shed”. We had to remove a badly overgrown laurel tree (it was a 3 foot high shrub when we moved here in 1980) and it is a bit of a shock…here’s the “BEFORE” the “during” and…gulp…the “after”:
Art Weekend…
What a fun weekend so far…art all the way. Friday night was Jon Colburn’s opening at Bush Barn, and before hand we checked out Jon’s rather wonderful studio (Jon is on the right): filled with art and artists (Jon Bunce, Cary Doucette, Jackie Johnson, Mardy Widman): and tools of the trade Eunice Parsons was there […]
A Rainy Day
Everybody’s talking about it…the weather. September 8th and it’s raining already: Here are the good things I can come up with today. Local berries: Staying inside to read R’s manuscript on Henk Pander: Day-dreaming about the new “garden shed”…they’re coming Monday to cut down the laurel and clear the site: and, of course, it’s dahlia […]
On The Way 