Karen, Nancy, Betsy and Ellen are going to Paris for 10 days…and last night Karo at Alcyone hosted a little Bon Voyage party …it was a festive moment for sure and the poached pears with caramel sauce were yummy… Alcyone is open for breakfast and lunch…give it a try…Bon Voyage ladies…et bon appetite!
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The Garden Studio…Spring…
These few sunny days have caused a flurry of activity around here. The Garden Studio…as it looked after construction…was surrounded by dirt and after our EXTREMELY wet winter the bottom two sections of shingles were very dirty. Clearly action was needed, so Bill arrived last week and has been working between rain storms to make […]
Archiving…
Today we met at the PNAA (or maybe the PNAAA), Pacific Northwest Artists Archive, at Willamette University. Archivist Mary McKay entered into a dialog with representatives from the Hallie Ford Museum and the Salem Art Association (and one interested citizen–me) about the matter of archiving a life’s work. How to help artists develop such an […]
Weekend…
And here was a weekend I REALLY needed to have a change of venue. First we needed to celebrate Susan’s birthday… and then I had to add my Cece duck to the pile…”top duck,” you might say, and then the wonderful calming moment of doing the dishes. There’s no dishwasher humming away in our beach […]
Farewell to Henk…
Henk’s off to Holland soon to do business, to paint, to see family…and here’s his little carry-case for art supplies…(yes, it’s 4 feet tall…) we looked at some drawings and we checked a new still life just underway checked out the real still life and had some lunch. Safe travels, friend.
Marie Watt…revisited…
I was thinking about Marie Watt today, and the fun I had in the fall of 2009 working with people in the Willamette community to help put together a piece that would eventually hang in Ford Hall on campus (she set it up like a “quilting bee” and students, administrators, and “others”…like me…came) that’s Marie […]
Alexandra Opie at the Hallie Ford
Went to see Alexandra Opie’s new work at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art and I thought it a stunning show… the beautiful, sepia, large format photos are playing off of her interest in old photographs and her feeling of the unsettling mystery of landscape…all used to wonderful effect in this show…really a must see…here […]
Rooms with a view…
But we began this outing with a visit to Tom Cramer’s again to see the wooden chests and boxes he makes and then a visit to his clients who have a newly made chest in place in their beautiful house where every single room is a “room with a view” and as you can tell […]
New Acquisitions…
I had a meeting today at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art and that gave me a chance to see the new acquisitions on view in the lobby this month…go take a look, but here are some (not too good…but you get the idea) photos. Jon Colburn Tom Cramer Katherine Ace Lucinda Parker and then […]
The Treasure…
I was sorting my Mom’s things this weekend and at the bottom of the box were the pill boxes. She always carried saccharin and an aspirin or two, a hankie, I had brought her the silver ones from Italy, but I didn’t remember this one so I popped it open, expecting to find a couple […]
On The Way 