Our few days at the beach started with Jim’s birthday and the next morning we headed north toward Cannon Beach: stopping for lunch at Wanda’s …where we were shown to the fireside table and as we settled in, we took notice of exactly where we were. Wall decorations included a reminder of RPH as a […]
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SPRING!!!!
It’s winter, it’s winter, it’s winter…and then suddenly…it’s spring. How did that happen so fast? Here’s what’s happening out there today…
Art at the Capitol…
Besides being a day of “love,” February 14th is also the birthday of Oregon’s statehood…1859…and here’s the mural in the senate chamber at the Capitol picturing the horseman arriving (…at Champoeg maybe…?) with the announcement that Oregon is now a state… and though I AM a loyal Oregonian, I wasn’t there for the birthday party. […]
Happy Valentines Day…
wish I was having a beautiful coffee with you all…someplace sunny would be nice…
Shelter…
Sharon sent these photos a few weeks ago from “our” beach of a nice new addition to the beach landscape We went straight to the beach this morning but, alas, the ocean and beachcombers have had their way with it, underscoring the transient nature of shelter, perhaps?
Lord & Schryver…February
Sharon and I made…we hope…our last trip to the Knight Library at University of Oregon on Wednesday…a foggy morning on the freeway We are preparing (“independent curators” we like to think) a show on the Salem landscape architects Elizabeth Lord and Edith Schryver, and their work in the region from 1929 to 1960. All the […]
Office of the Oregon State Forester
On February 1st the newly appointed Oregon State Forester, Doug Decker, began work here in Salem. Coincidentally he’s my brother (!), and yesterday R & I were invited to bring our lunches (note the apostrophe problem here…oops…you’d need TOOLS to edit it…) and see the new office…just blocks from our house. The building sits on […]
Bush House Conservatory…
In the local preservation world in ANY region, it seems there are often more sad stories about the buildings lost than happy ones…but here is a very happy one indeed. In our local wonderful Bush’s Pasture Park stands the amazing Bush House Museum. Behind the museum (another story for another day) is the small and […]
Winter Carwash…
While most of the nation is snowbound, the sun is brightly shining here…and you know what THAT means…yep…CARWASH TIME! AND…it was $2.00 off for “ladies” (hence the long line)…not sure I’m one of those, but don’t know where else I can have so much fun for $4… Now I want to find a carwash where […]
Magic Moment…
Did you ever have this moment where everything is kind of gray and suddenly, like a movie, something is oddly highlighted?? Well we were down walking on the RR bridge when… this kind of beautiful “Brigadoon” moment happened. Right after I snapped the picture the sun went away and all was gray again… so we […]
On The Way 