Before we leave Temple Square and the elms let me show you this one…John Constable, English, “Study of the Trunk of an Elm Tree,” oil, 1821….the fun of a resident art historian is that while one is in a reverie about the elms of one’s childhood, R is immediately struck with the similarity of the […]
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Road Trip Part 5: SCENERY!
We left Flagstaff and on Holly’s recommendation we headed to the San Francisco Peaks…and the Sunset Crater Volcano, with an archeological site on the road… a road that was rough and not the “graded dirt road” we had been promised, but well worth the trip…and then on to the NORTH RIM of the Grand Canyon…which […]
The Trip Part 4: Heading North to Art (and Eventually Scenery)
Heading north from Sierra Vista the day plan was to arrive at the Phoenix Art Museum at noon, have lunch in the nice restaurant there, look at some art and then head on north to Flagstaff with a brief stop in Sedona for supper…and we were spot on, arriving just as the museum doors opened […]
Lucinda Parker, Alden Mason and a Research Road Trip
A couple of weeks ago we hit the road to Seattle with stops along the way. I had mending, R drove and we zoomed north along with scary log trucks, heading to Longview, Washington. R is deep into the manuscript he is preparing for a monograph on Portland painter Lucinda Parker, which will be published […]
Road Trip
A busy week here getting ready to head out…some ukulele playing in Monterey, a stop in Sonoma to look at quilts, departure is imminent. I’ll just leave you with a few little Louis Bunce gouaches we ran across. More news from the road…. rescue quilt almost done… Bye bye…
On The Way 