I suspect the subject of our bathroom is a bit boring to you readers by now, but just to complete the thought…here is the process (a very short, digested version I might add…). It fascinates me to watch a room be ripped apart (so naturally I think it fascinates YOU…?) and then come together so […]
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“High” Summer
The fourth of July is really the beginning of the mid summer celebration of flowers and good warm weather and just being outside all the time. Our habit is to be at the beach on the fourth and the last few years Z & A and friends Amy and Ian have joined us…for reading, good […]
“Theatrical Heartscape” and the Friends of the Mural
In 1983 painter and teacher Jim Mattingly submitted a proposal to paint a mural in downtown Salem. The mural was to grace the rear wall of the Elsinore Theater, then a movie theater, but with a long history of vaudeville before the movies. Mattingly’s proposal was chosen and in the summer of 1984 he went […]
VACATION!!!
We took a little drive last week with Z & A back to Wallace, Idaho, for a bit of the “HULL back story” . Z made the route which we did ALL on non-freeway roads and we made a big, interesting circle. Basically other people’s vacations are pretty boring, I know, but here are just […]
“SPRING”…bye bye…
Hooray…I finished the spring quilt only two days after the solstice! it’s all different than my beginning intentions…less detailed maybe…but springy all the same. And, it’s DONE! Hooray…here’s a detail…each square quilted differently… and I signed it BIG…which I’ve never really done before… …now on to “Turbulence”…goody…
Marie Watt/Project Space/Tour of Homes
This seems to be the week for odd splices on this blog…bear with me (as Mark Siegel used to say…). Brooklyn artist/sculptor Marie Watt is doing a specific blanket piece for the Hallie Ford Museum of Art here in Salem. To that end I’m donating a family blanket to the project. Each blanket will have […]
Wet Collodion Process and Farm lunch…
That’s a mix of activities, like any good Wednesday can provide…but first, anybody know what’s happening to the McGilchrist Building? we were so happy to see the ugly stuff coming off an revealing the original graceful proportions or the windows…here’s hoping they are heading in the right direction! Alisa breezed into town yesterday from Santa […]
Fathers…
I have been very lucky, in many ways…but today I’m thinking about fathers…my own Howard Decker…(here we were in 1946) Roger’s father Piatt Hull (here they are in about 1944) R’s lovely grandfather H.J. Hull…here with Piatt in St Marie’s, Idaho about 1915… my wonderful Uncle John Zurmuehlen…here with me, but father to Don a […]
TWTWTW
Remember that TV show…”That Was The Week That Was?” So okay…the tile is back-ordered and the bathroom is going nowhere… so we moved on this week as best we could…starting with Constance Fowler (1907-1996), painter, print-maker, founder of the modern art department at Willamette University in 1938. R has curated an excellent Fowler show up […]
Works in Progress….
This weekend I got OUT of the bathroom… and INTO the studio… where, after looking at an old painting painted in memory of the lovely William Peyron, dishwasher at the Arbor Cafe for 6 years, reader, person of great good humor (sometimes old paintings are better than photographs for conjuring people up…this is called “I […]
On The Way 