The end of real summer…Labor Day coming up…and today was the day we’ll dream of come icey January… But it started cloudy and R was thinking “hmmm…maybe I’ll paint the garage door”… so he did…one more coat tomorrow meanwhile I was in the studio with my trusty featherweight (it was my Mom’s)… finishing a baby […]
Tag: Coffee
4th of July Fish…etc.
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 […]
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 […]
A Salem sort of day…
Today, after a tiny but delicious lunch R made before heading to the beach, I got checking the Salem Blogs. Emily, over at Desperately Seeking Salem, was talking about cherry blossoms so later…on my drive-about…I went to check them out remembering how annoyed I was when they cut down all the walnut trees in the […]
Cortona…
We’re going to Cortona in May..R will be “leading” an alumni tour of some 40 people… He did the same in 2008 and it will be fun to get back to Italy. For the people in the group Roger has started a weekly blog to show them what we’ll see and get them in the […]
My Year So Far…
Well today was only the first day of the new year for me and I did some stuff…not too much, but some…but first a couple of birthday shots…the window at Anthopologie where I HAD to buy a few plates the lettuce wraps and…then…what do you think this might mean???? and then today, the POST birthday […]
Broadway Coffee…
Okay, I decided to give them another chance and the coffee I got today was delicious… but only “okay” in the pretty department (tho when she saw me taking the picture she said “Oh if I had known you were taking a picture I’d have made it prettier”…?) the place is cavernous but pleasant…it has […]
Preoccupied…
My mind is on other stuff this week, but here are two short news notes…got a delicious and almost-pretty coffee at Broadway coffee (in the new modern church buildiing on the east side of Broadway)…it’s Stumptown coffee. The help…four people behind the counter…were so busy talking to each other that none could talk to me […]
On The Way 