Grief and loss, the missed goodbye, the hole in a life. The current poignant show at Duplex gallery is only up for a few more days but is well worth seeing. Moore’s mother died young, alienated from her family but leaving behind a rich web of memory and feeling for her daughter. The ruby slippers […]
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Saying Goodbye
I felt very sad in the museum the other day to see these two nice works up in remembrance of two amazing northwest painters recently lost to us… Rick Bartow… and Mark Clarke…
Sandgren Season
The first in quite a string of events this summer featuring the work of Corvallis painter/print-maker Nelson Sandgren happened last Saturday. In conjunction with the exhibition opening June 14th at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art in Salem, Michael Parsons also is featuring the Work of Sandgren this month in his Portland gallery (716 SW […]
A Trip to Clear Our Heads
It was true we needed to get away for a bit…see some new sights, regain perspective on our creative endeavors, visit some friends and family, connect. Well it worked sooo well that I came home and forgot about all the stuff I normally do, like blogs…oops. So here is the long and laborious journey…mostly sights, […]
Tiny Bowls
Katy is just back from an adventure in Japan and she brought us each a present yesterday… We got to choose so there was a mad dash… and I got this one… and low and behold, tied in a hankie (which is brilliant as I actually USE cloth hankies…) with cherry blossom chopsticks was… …a […]
The “State Street Corridor”
The City of Salem is rolling out a new plan called “The State Street Corridor” …and to that end we attended a recent neighborhood meeting where we were to sit around some tables and “brainstorm”…and the idea of planting came up, and trash, and this reminded us of the “State Street Renewal” group of the […]
Caesar!!
I LOVE Caesar salad. When Lynne and I were starting the Arbor Cafe back in the early 1990’s we were kind of at the leading edge of the Caesar revival locally, and our first “original” cafe recipe was our own take on Caesar dressing. But that was then and now is now and the NYTimes […]
Maya Lin and Sidney
Back in 2011 R and I went to the first of the Maya Lin “Confluence” pieces at Cape Disappointment. Last week on Sidney day we visited the second piece we have seen in Vancouver, WA…the “Land Bridge” and we liked it just as much. The walk up the Land Bridge piece begins at the historic […]
On The Way 