Salemites! Want a great lunch? Take River Road out to Brown’s Island Road, hang a right and follow the signs to the Minto Island Growers farm stand TERRIFIC lunch cart. Elizabeth Miller has been farming out on Minto and doing CSA boxes with gorgeous certified organic produce. This summer her Mom has spearheaded this lunch […]
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Patterns: Quilts and Gardens
My curatorial career is coming to it’s apex this week while both shows I have recently curated are on view (“Lord and Schryver” at the Hallie Ford Museum…closing September 18th… and “Bits and Pieces” at Salem Art Association’s AN Bush Gallery, up until mid October). Roger suggested this morning that there are certain similarities between […]
Bits and Pieces: The Opening
Our quilt show “Bits and Pieces” opened Friday night…and it was total fun. As you come up the stairs we see Kay Worthington’s quilt, and then into the gallery with Andrea Balosky’s huge Dahlia Rag at the far end… LeeAnn’s quilts looked smashing, and Local quilter Joanna Price was excited to have a piece in […]
Studio lunch…
Some Portlanders came down for lunch yesterday, and it was so hot outside we ate in the shady and cool studio looking out on the garden which gave me a chance to use the garden plates I made a couple of years ago (it’s hard for many people to believe that given the number of […]
Bits and Pieces: the Show Goes Up
Home after a terrific beach sojourn…and I had to get a coffee immediately…of course… This morning after a lovely breakfast at Nan’s I headed over to Bush Barn to see how the show was coming…yesterday they painted the two walls red, as Kate and I had wanted, and today the quilts were going up… Here’s […]
PASTA!
R found this 2008 Martha Stewart Everyday Food magazine in the basket of old magazines…and it yielded up this super easy, light and very fresh tasting recipe…we had it last night with halibut from the fish guy…try it, you’ll like it… 8 oz. pasta (she used gemelli, we used farfalle) 3 medium yellow summer squash […]
LABOR DAY
The first Labor Day was celebrated in 1882 and was all about the labor movement and the rise of the unions…a movement that changed everything economically in this country. For some of us of a certain age group, Labor Day was when you had to stop wearing white shoes and white skirts (skirts???). Carol says […]
More on the Condit Dam
Here’s a cool blog…soon to feature a timelapse of the actual blowing up of the dam…check it out…thanks Jennifer!!
The Fairy Lights…
The fairy lights needed some work…burned out lights, dusty…so I got some new lights, put all the “shades” on them, put them back in place and turned them on…MAGIC…
Just a Puttering Day…
The end of real summer…Labor Day coming up…and today was the day we’ll dream of come icey January… But it started cloudy and R was thinking “hmmm…maybe I’ll paint the garage door”… so he did…one more coat tomorrow meanwhile I was in the studio with my trusty featherweight (it was my Mom’s)… finishing a baby […]
On The Way 