I’m in love with Sue-Del’s Akebana cherry tree, and we’d set Monday as the day I might come out and take a look. She and John planted it when it was a “whip” no bigger than her finger. Now it sits majestically with it’s columns (designed by architect friend Bill Lindburg) and although the buds […]
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Research of Every Sort: OHS & the MAC Club
Off to Portland last week for a very interesting research day that started at the Oregon Historical Society. Before we got to the library we saw the Lewis & Clark kites, this one called “Native Angels or Tribute to Women” by JoAnne Weber… and this completely adorable tear drop trailer. Then straight to the library […]
Onion Tart…Pizza-style
In the New York Times this week there was a yummy sounding recipe for an onion tart, (the recipe for which I have included.) But first, my own experience and the changes I made (subverting order once again). I started with the WONDERFUL pizza dough from Lifesource which comes as whole wheat or spelt…slight preference […]
Manuel Izquierdo in the 1980’s…
R received this gorgeous photo of Manuel from the mid-1980’s this week. It was taken by Portland photographer Aaron Johanson, and besides being a photo of R’s focus subject of this year, it’s a just a beautifully composed photo…interesting to look at even if you didn’t know a single thing about Manuel. The piece behind […]
One More Week for the Marie Watt Show…
The Marie Watt show “Lodge” at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art in Salem is coming to a close this Sunday…but the museum IS open Sunday, from 1:00 to 5:00. Better go take a look…the show will leave Salem and travel to the Tacoma Art Museum…
Gathering Steam…
Thanks readers, for all the good birthday wishes. It was a busy week last week including a few meetings (possibly you can tell where I was sitting?)… and here’s my ukulele teacher Ron with HIS birthday present (the day before)…an electronic bass ukulele! Rock on…(and he will) Sharon and I went to ukulele “graduation” (well..it’s […]
MY LIFE SO FAR…
I published this on my birthday in 2009, and also in 2011, but I still think it tells my story, so let’s go again!! Today is my birthday and I’ve attained a certain age. I have plans, things to do, places to go. But today I’m looking back. (I tried to cut my own bangs–oops.) […]
Global Warming…
On Tuesday night we heard the excellent James E. Hansen speak at Willamette University giving the annual Dempsey environmental lecture. Hansen is not a totally charismatic speaker, but the message was all the more grave as the audience began to understand that he was spending his life not only in research and writing, but in […]
…On the Design Wall…
Here’s a quilting update..red and white quilt finished..design good, applique not so good, quilting good+… I’m slowly turning the Indian skirt I got at Value village into a log cabin-ish quilt…it was a bunch of strips sewn together which I took apart… then cut the strips in half… added strips from an old sheet… voila: […]
Playing with your food…
March is birthday month in our family…Bru, Emma, Gabrielle, Doug, ME (!) and Friday we went to Portland to celebrate Jennifer’s birthday. It was toooo much fun. Somebody gave her a Wonder Woman lunch box filled with plastic creatures, and she really got going on the hors d’oeuvres plate…food styling reaches a new mark… We […]
On The Way 