These bright and sunny January days are a gift…we read the paper at coffee time and the rain starts again on Thursday, BUT, for today, we were in the sunshine. Here’s our beautiful Cutler City, the row of dark trees on the other side of Siletz Bay: we walked the beach at Nelscott…well…R walked the […]
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The Trouble for the Movies…
Of course my FAVORITE movie theater is the Salem Cinema, but I see they are all suffering from the same thing…netflix? cable? Here is our little band of five at the movies last night…True Grit…in Lincoln City. Often when there we go to the Bijou but last night the multiplex… that’s right folks…we were all […]
…A DAZZLING Day…
Boy and it was. Bright sun, warm-ish, no wind. Bike ride, gardening, beach walk…and best of all the beach was filled with beach wares of the best type…beautiful and free in some of my favorite categories…red rocks, beach glass, agates, shells with holes, heart rocks, little white shell bits: Tonight the winter film festival continues […]
There’s Always a Message…
Sigh. Even though it’s a GOOD message, one does yearn to just be message free…especially at the movies
New Year, New Decade….
Starting both “on the edge”…a twenty year tradition. After the New Year’s Eve revelry at the beach…(we stayed up til 3:00 a.m.!) we had a quiet day today, with a view of the bay: a coffee with Hans’ SUPERIOR foam: a view of the bay from a different vantage point: a stop at the fish […]
RAIN…
Yesterday it felt almost scary, it rained so much. Finally we MADE ourselves leave the house for a coffee… and a look at the RR bridge looking faintly like a Whistler painting… and the other two bridges (…got pretty wet getting this picture…) and it seemed eerily beautiful in the pouring rain…
Presentation is all…
Every year R goes to the beach for a week before Christmas for his “winter retreat” which includes reading books, taking beach walks, drinking some scotch and…putting together some wacky and wonderful Christmas gifts. His wrappings sometimes include plastic vegetable bags, shells, unidentifiable items that are familiar yet not…boxes, tins, plastic containers. These are imaginative […]
…The Day After….
It was…indeed…a perfect Christmas…for all the right reasons. Preparing for the season was fun and lively. Even the shortest and darkest days were sweet…BUT, I have to admit…today starts a season I really look forward to as much as the holidays. We head toward the light, new art work begins in earnest, the possibilities for […]
Merry Christmas!!!!
Our Christmas happens on Christmas Eve…so today to the fish store put the last present under the tree check the neigborhood set the table open up all the presents have a photo war with Matthew appreciate our loved ones, do the dishes and off to dreamland with visions of sugar plums…
Living the Creative Life: Henk Pander
On Sunday I rode along when R took the galleys for the book up to Henk for “color correction”… I like going to Henk’s warm and textural house, filled with art and flowers (always still-life-worthy flowers)… But before they jumped into the manuscript we went out to the studio to see the paintings he has […]
On The Way 