So the very next morning after Alisa’s dinner I heard the now-all-too-familiar sound of chain saws buzzing. I ran out to the deck only to discover a guy in the 40 foot tall walnut tree in the yard behind us. I quickly snapped a picture of the tree before he got started… and ever hopeful […]
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Alisa Cooks up a storm…
Alisa Alexander (former student…now friend) came over last night and cooked us a DELICIOUS and lovely meal. Alisa is half Thai and the meal included spring rolls with her Mom’s peanut sauce and some yummy corn relish…Here’s how it went: (this is what the rice wrapper looks like before she soaks it…) all of the […]
In Memory of Bob Hawkinson
Bob died in May, very suddenly. We were in Italy and missed his memorial service but as we winged our way across the Atlantic he was in our thoughts: Last weekend a few of us gathered at Sharon’s near the Bay to scatter his ashes in a place he loved. We had a little lunch […]
Making Things…
I went out to coffee with a bunch of artists the other day… and among the topics we talked about was the need to make things…a feeling I can identify from my earliest years. Today I sat in the back garden avoiding the heat and finishing the red and white quilt while also looking at […]
Surgery…
TREE surgery that is. Last week we noticed this sign on a tree across the street… and really, when we stepped back and LOOKED at the tree we saw it was a bit sick looking, and at the base of the trunk somebody in the neighborhood had sprinkled rose petals…as a last tribute? And today, […]
Italy 2011…The Villa
I promise this is the last chapter of our Italian adventure…for this year anyway! Well after our fabulous “groupo” took off, we had a brief but lovely four days in Florence (here a view from the roof garden atop the Hotel Grand Baglioni), with our beautiful niece Fanny wherein Roger toured her through streets and […]
Midsummer interlude…
This weekend is the Salem Art Fair in the park and we went yesterday to catch up with some old friends. Mostly we sat in the beer garden, yakked and took pictures of each other (here are some of the beautiful Eustrom girls and friends) and R and Chris but when we went on a […]
House Progress…
Z & A’s house is done and looking pretty nice…attention is now being turned to the gardens which have suffered between construction and painting…take a look! Before: during: after:
Lord & Schryver
Saturday there was a tour of Lord & Schryver gardens and it was the PERFECT day…sunny and warm (but not too warm). We went first to Gaiety Hollow…Lord and Schryver’s home garden…the allee with the 300 year old oak tree was cool and inviting (though in spring it’s a riot of color), the brick paths […]
The Quilt Show in Sisters
So…the last 4th of July firecracker had hardly sounded when the REBELS scooped me up and we were off to Sisters for three days of quilting, quilts and fun. I was signed up for a class with the ladies from Gee’s Bend and had a sack of fabric ready to take… The first night though, […]
On The Way 