Eight women met Sylvia Dorney (Greenbaum’s Quilted Forest) late this afternoon at the Willamette Heritage Center to walk through the nice show of heritage quilts curated by quilt historian Mary Bywater Cross…up until December 24th, one in a series of shows focusing on valley women. Most of the quilts were completed AFTER the Oregon trail […]
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City Days
We’ve gotten in the Christmas spirit by spending a few days in the city, a trip that began as R attending a meeting, and turned into a three day festival of varied activities that surprised us with how much you can really cram into three days. I could draw it out over several posts but […]
ArtMarket…
Put it on your calendar…December 9th…5:00-8:00 p.m….Bush Barn Gallery…ArtMarket will preview. Featured will be items made by local artists out of materials of “little intrinsic value” meant to be handled and sold very cheap. My particular entry will be 5 small duct (or, as it is now called, “duck”) tape “quilts.” These are mostly about […]
The Sunset Tonight…
We stopped at the Bistro for a coffee… and then took a little “spin” out River Road… where we saw the most amazing sunset shaping up. We turned into Minto Island for a better photo op and really, it DID look like the sky was on fire… and just 8 minutes later, the show was […]
This and That…
Thanksgiving was fun with turkey and family and all that good stuff…though I didn’t take time out to photo it all, since I was the hostess, so just think of your own day, and ditto that for ours. Besides my lovely family and a tummy full of good food, I’m thankful this year for the […]
“Leland #1,” Lee Kelly/Bonnie Bronson
As “Capital Taps” pointed out in the comments of the last post, the Izquierdo sculpture sits in the middle of Lawrence Halprin’s fountain corridor in Portland. Beginning at the north is the Forecourt Fountain (or the Ira Keller Fountain) with Pettygrove Park next (location of the Izquierdo sculpture) and then the Lovejoy Fountain. Here is […]
Manuel Izquierdo, “The Dreamer”
This fall Roger has begun to prepare to write a book on sculptor Manuel Izquierdo, and to curate the show of Izquierdo’s work, which opens at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art in January of 2013. There will be many trips, conversations, interviews, library hours…ahead this winter and spring as the event and the document […]
Sunday Fun…
While tidying up to get in the holiday mood… I found a little cellophane bag with some scraps that Kate brought me in the fall…and I had stuck on top of the cupboard and forgotten. Today I opened it up and thought there might be just the right amount of stuff for a log cabin […]
Follow-up to the Moving Experience…
Today wasn’t the BEST day for photographing, but here are all those buildings that were moved, as they look today in their “new” locations… Gatke Hall (formerly the Salem post office) has been newly refurbished by Willamette University and looks pretty smashing with the new trim color (…now if they would just replace the striped […]
A Moving Experience…
The New York Times had an interesting article yesterday morning on moving houses. This had me running through my (very limited) photo archives to turn up “moving pictures,” right here in Salem. Of course the BIGGEST project was Gatke Hall, formerly the Salem Post Office and for years in the Guinness Book of records as […]
On The Way 