There’s a moment in the spring garden where everything looks neat and tidy, beautiful, organized…and this week is it. You know, just before it all gets wild and overgrown and crazy. Bill was here to help us tidy up and it just looks beautiful to me today ( “Of course my baby is the […]
Tag: Salem
Public Art: ODOT
The Oregon Department of Transportation Building (originally built about 1950) underwent a renovation all year at Capitol and Center Streets, and we went by the other day to check it out. 1% of the cost of building or renovating a state building is spent on art for that building, which has resulted in a rich […]
Old East Salem
A recent conversation I had with a friend about what Salem used to look like, sent me to my photo “archive” to take a look. Here’s the building at 12th Street and Center Street today and here’s the old East School just before demolition in 1950 to make way for the Safeway… and going a […]
The Arbor Cafe
Anybody remember the Arbor Cafe? 21 years ago today we opened our doors…(and managed to survive in a hard business for 13 years…) and today when I went to the bank I saw that Broken Bread is making the space over…for a fall opening…and it was a familiar sight… and while I was taking a […]
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 […]
Project Space, 7-30-08
Abby Huston came in today to hang some paintings in the “shoestring” part of the gallery–un-juried space where anything goes. Abby collaborates with her brother Sam in making some bright and lively paintings: I don’t think the following was what Abby and Sam had in mind, but I couldn’t resist:
On The Way 