Irene M. gave me an old quilt that was sort of beyond repair. I had the idea of cutting the good bits up, over-dying the squares and using them as foundation for some “quilting”…read embroidery. I made the mistake of washing the quilt first, which got rid of about half of the squares from disintegration…but […]
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Friday Follow Up
First and foremost, I made a mistake on the location of Rochelle and Nate Rafn’s new restaurant. It will open early in June at 479 Court (next door to Olson’s Florist)…(that used to be Quizno’s sandwich shop…) Thanks to my neighbor Jason Heimerdinger and David at the Statesman Journal, disaster was averted…because if you went […]
Restaurant News…
Well just about this time in 1991 we were “building” the Arbor Cafe…certain that soon there would be 10 downtown restaurants opening up. Oops. Never happened. But this summer in Salem the restaurant scene is heating up… Have you been to Maven yet…?? Good food, good ambience…State Street. for Salem-ites it’s right across the street […]
Work Zone
It’s a work zone over here today. Mike’s crew arrived early to tear off the old roof… and then the plywood sheathing went on…and here’s Mike himself (hint: he isn’t 20, 30 40 or 50…) …the crew was well-supervised at our end… and by the end of their work day the front was ready to […]
“Making a Mark: Drawing in Oregon”
If you’re down Corvallis way you still have 2 more weeks to see the nice drawing show “Making a Mark: Drawing in Oregon” at the Corvallis Art Center (700 SW Madison Ave)…up until May 18th. Of course I WOULD say it’s a nice show because I have some drawings in it, but actually…it really is […]
Queen of the Garden
I’m not posting much on the garden this year, though it is beautiful..BUT…the tree peony deserves a post EVERY year…and with all the warm weather this week she’s just about to burst open…
Tree Memorial…
Checked the tree status yesterday…two still standing, tree memorials intact…
New Carwash
Oh this is weird…instead of you moving through the carwash, the carwash moves around you…and is RED!
Save This Tree…
As you can see this last tree near the front door of U.S.Bank’s Ladd and Bush Branch is healthy and beautiful… It would be such a vote of confidence for this community, a community that doesn’t like to think of a NON-community bank altering our landscape so dramatically, if this one tree could be saved. […]
The Narrative of Street Trees…
In any city, even a small one like ours, the trees tell stories…who planted them, who decided, when they were planted. And on. As luck would have it, I happened to be down at the Ladd and Bush Bank Friday photographing a moment… just as David Rosales was being arrested for his protest of the […]
On The Way 