A great beach weekend and here’s a good recipe for grilling a whole Chinook salmon Take the whole fish…rub with olive oil and then make slits in the fish into which you put thin slices of butter. Get the corn ready Heat the grill… set the table Cook the fish 11 minuntes on a side…it […]
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Beach Summer…
Finally!!! 4th of July weekend and all the kites were up at the Dee River…
Lord and Schryver
I hope between now and September 18th you’ll have a chance to visit the Hallie Ford Museum of Art to see an interesting show of the garden plans and watercolors of the landscape architects Elizabeth Lord and Edith Schryver, curated by Sharon Rose and myself. Lord and Schryver both attended the Lowthorpe School in Groton, […]
The Winery Visit…
One afternoon we went out to Altesino vineyard to see the wine-making set-up there. We’d been there in 2008 and were amazed at the increase in production…the site is still amazingly beautiful…not unlike our own Oregoon wine country… except for the cypresses that signal Tuscany… The wood barrels first… I really liked the oak leaf […]
Italia…the flip side…
I think maybe my discourse has been getting pretty scenic and adorable (and there’s more of that to come) so thought today I’d inject a note about modern Italy…so you can see that it is the combination of things that makes you love it so…the picturesque/the mundane. If you’re looking for parking in urban Italy […]
Pienza
We had never been to Pienza…a lovely little hill town with a GORGEOUS small renaissance piazza built by Piccolomini…who later became Pope Pius the second in 1458. Designed by Bernardo Rossellino…student of Alberti…it was envisioned as the “ideal city” and in many ways, it is… and not only did we touristical types like it, it […]
Cortona at last…
Yes, the first cappuch…a welcome sight on the first morning. We over-slept and while the whole group was touring Cortona we sat in the breakfast room drinking in the views with the coffee. from below Cortona looks like this and at the top is Piazza Garibaldi where the Hotel San Luca is located…built down the […]
Italia 2011
Amici! Home at last with a few tales to tell…guess maybe I’ll drag it out… in installments? Leaving Portland at the end of May we checked the Louis Bunce mural of 1956 in the airport, once so controversial…now just plain beautiful… had our last American coffee and then jumped onto the plane where we were […]
Snafu Before Departure…
I was having an iPad tutorial yesterday and we were trading favorite “apps”??? (eye-hand addicts…keep away from mah jong…deeply addictive…) when it was suggested I need to plug back into the “mother ship” before departure to make sure all was synced…and I did…BUT there was a snafu and if you see a screen like this […]
Getting Ready to go…
Now this morning I can’t remember HOW I made that post from my iPad last night…but I guess if I figured it out once I can figure it out again? In the meantime we ‘ve finished the garden projects met with the friends who will join us in Italy and aside from packing there isn’t […]
On The Way 