K. Williams Brown quoted me in a column in the SJ Sunday , and we had a thoughtful conversation Friday about Salem architecture. The columnist, only here two years…from the south originally, was wanting to write about the “new brutalist” nature of public buildings, and lamenting that Oregonians don’t appreciate good architecture. Over the weekend […]
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Boiler Bay…
Have you ever gone to Boiler Bay and parked in the parking lot for an ocean view? Me too. BUT..R and Dick went DOWN into the bay Saturday to find the boiler, and the parking lot looks like this from the bottom… but once down there..a whole world to explore… and they weren’t alone…here was […]
Celebrating Spring…
Well it’s raining today, but here’s a photo I snapped this week of Amelia Armitage calmly knitting on a spring evening on campus…she was waiting for a concert to start and I appreciated the serene industry of using those quiet “found” moments (spoken as one who always carries something to “make” along with her…)
Jay Backstrand and Tom Cramer at Laura Russo
Opening last night…a night that really felt like summer almost…
…And Speaking of Trees…
Georgia over at the local ecologist writes about trees and street trees and urban trees a lot. She had a post on The Tree Year…choose a favorite tree and follow it for a year. I thought…hmmm…yes, good idea. Unfortunately I can’t choose just one tree but most of my favorites are the old oaks still […]
Mourning a tree…and DIY
My neighbors had a tree taken out today and it always makes me sad to lose a tree…now that I’ve attained a certain age and can never live to see them grow really big. It was a walnut, covered in ivy, blocking sun fom other trees, but–habitat…there’s a LOT of livestock here in the central […]
The Scroll Garden…
In 1928 Elizabeth Lord and Edith Schryver (Schryver on the left, Lord on the right) opened a landscape architecture practice in Salem. Both had attended Lowthorpe School of Landscape Architecture in Groton, Massachusetts…though at different times. Schryver graduated first and had worked in NYC with Ellen Shipman for 5 years, but in 1927 they met […]
Road Trip #2…The Quilts…
As well as touring us around town, Linnea toured us through her family quilt collection. How amazing to have things made by grandmothers and great grandmothers. Treasures. Here is Harriet Hartford, Linnea’s paternal great grandmother, pictured here with her grand daughter Ruth. Ruth, about 2 in this photo, died at age 3. and here’s the […]
Road Trip…Port Townsend
I took a little jaunt to Port Townsend this week for a good visit with old friends. Of course the first place we went when we left town was…yes..the carwash… and then a quick stop at TJ’s to get some pancetta and snap a spring photo before heading north. We stopped briefly to collect Vickie […]
Spring Romance…
This week a long awaited package arrived and just like THAT I’ve been catapulted into the world of apps and pretty much staring at this little thing for hours… this app is called “living earth” …. I’m having way too much fun…
On The Way 