This week a sad battle was lost downtown. The Ladd and Bush branch of U.S. Bank had been denied it’s request to remove a row of street trees that many of us had loved for decades. The Shade Tree Advisory Committee voted against the removal of the trees, but the bank appealed and won March […]
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Room With a View
Saturday we headed north up the coast… to visit April and Nathan in their newish beach house (they got it last July). It has an amazing amazing view and April has set up her easel in the living room and is painting there as many days as she can be away from Salem… Not only […]
“Map of the Table”
Just finishing up my most recent sketchbook project book in preparation for sending it off to the Brooklyn Art Library…maybe it will come to Portland this summer on the Sketchbook Tour??! One more page to go but thought I’d just put it on here today…it’s called “Map of the Table” and I’ve been dragging it […]
Garden Love…
There’s a moment in the spring garden where everything looks neat and tidy, beautiful, organized…and this week is it. You know, just before it all gets wild and overgrown and crazy. Bill was here to help us tidy up and it just looks beautiful to me today ( “Of course my baby is the […]
The Spring Quilt
This winter I was “confined” and had a lot of time to read, to sew and…to surf the internet. Somewhere along the way I ran across the work of Japanese illustrator Siota Mako … and the idea for the spring quilt was born…here are a few more of the inspirational flowers of Mako’s that I […]
A Room of Our Own…
A deal has been arranged, and we moved into “our” room at Z & A’s… Due to art research and occasional fun (…we only allow ourselves OCCASIONAL fun…) we were needing a landing spot in Portland…and now we have one. By “moved in” I really mean we brought some art and a lamp or two…they […]
A Visit to Cynthia…
Quilter Cynthia Wilcox was one of my very first quilting mentors. She taught me a lot, and patiently looked at my puny first efforts, always adding encouraging comments. I went to her studio several times and we would just “play” with scraps…I consider those moments to have been seriously important to the way I work. […]
Postscript: The Dogwood
You may remember we recently lost our old dogwood tree…but my birthday present was the planting of a new tree!!! Here’s the old tree… …and the white flag marking the spot where the new tree was to go… OF COURSE there was a problem…the boxwood hedge… which Felix said would have to go…we said nope. […]
MY LIFE SO FAR
I published this on my birthday in 2009-13, took a year off last year, but I still think it tells the first part of my story, and I love the old photos of the little me… Today is my birthday and I’ve attained a certain age. I have plans, things to do, places to go. […]
On The Way 