Sunday we went to Dean Brooks’ 94th birthday party out at Pentacle theater Dean Brooks was the director of the Oregon State Hospital in the 1970’s and allowed the State Hospital to be the site for filming the milestone movie “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s nest.” Brooks even played a part in the film…that role […]
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Kingwood Garden
On Saturday, before it got tooo hot, we headed to west Salem to David & Coralee Rhoten’s to see David’s Garden, open that day for the Hardy Plant Society members. The garden was designed in 1992 to compliment the earlier plan of local plantsman Ernie Iufer for the 1956 house. The “new” garden built by […]
Living the Creative Life: Jonathan Bucci
Jonathan’s day job is as collections curator at the HFMA, but in his REAL life he’s an artist. We did a studio visit to see the rest of the oregano series (one currently on view in the Mayor’s Invitational) and see the new work, both two and three dimensional. Jonathan has converted the garage into […]
Happy Birthday to Sharon…
Last night we went to Jim & Carol’s for Sharon’s birthday. It was a festive and fun evening, friends, plenty of laughing and all in the separate world along Mill Creek. Absolutely lovely. Gifts of course: Off she goes, into another year with a new studio, a semester off, and…????
Around Town
Look at this stuff in Cooke’s Stationery Store window…there’s a whole generation or two alive now who wouldn’t have a clue what most of this stuff is! And here we’d have to say…truth in advertising…
Project Space 3 Update
Zoomed by Project Space yesterday and LOVED Michael Boonstra’s video water piece…nobody could avoid jumping into the video water:
Quilts: The State of Oregon
Well I finished the State of Oregon quilt top yesterday and put it together today. It looks a bit overwhelming at this point so I’ll just show you some details. Here’s a bit of western Oregon and Crater Lake: Here’s the Willamette Valley and the Coast Range/beach/ocean: It will look better when it’s quilted (I […]
The 4th Mayor’s Invitational
Salem Conference Center hosts this show for a year. Last year it was work from the City of Salem’s collection, and this year it was an invitational. I fell down on my true reporting because of too much schmoozing (…have I said that before?…) but here are the few pictures I took. The main concourse: […]
It’s All Ours!!
Wow. What a moment. Today we paid off the mortgage and the moment looked like this: We bought this house on Court Street 30 years ago when we were young and buoyant and ready to do some work: We removed the aluminum siding, changed the front doors, gardened, reworked the interior and put on an […]
Quilt Retreat, Day Four
We finished!! though it just about killed us off. The pre-elderly can’t really sew for 9 hours…Kay had to take a rest “cure” this morning and so did Jack… we tidied up and checked progress on the other quilts:
On The Way 