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Patterns: Quilts and Gardens
My curatorial career is coming to it’s apex this week while both shows I have recently curated are on view (“Lord and Schryver” at the Hallie Ford Museum…closing September 18th… and “Bits and Pieces”...
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Spring is Here…
I’m taking off for Alabama early tomorrow…a quick turn around the yard today to see if spring is really here…it is! a quick coffee… and something to ponder on my trip…interesting things to do with...
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Frankie’s Garden
I forgot to mention that Frankie started playing uke with Carol and Sharon and me. When we were dropping her off the other day (Frankie and George are neighbors in the historic district) she invited...
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Wisteria Duet…
R is over at the beach writing this week and sent me an informational picture of the wisteria by the back door… so I sent HIM a picture of the wisteria here at home…oh I love this warm...
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Two Gardens…
Beautiful gardens abound in Salem, but here’s a peek at two I’ve visited recently. The first is the garden of my “garden mentor” Irene. Years ago the late Oregonian garden columnist Dulcy Mahar wrote...
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The Iltis Garden
Went up to see Dick and Dee’s garden recently (before the Alaska trip) while the trilliums were still in bloom. Theirs is really an early spring garden and we missed the real season, but “as...
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“The Hollow”
Marie and I arrived pretty early at Gretchen and Denis’ beautiful garden…just in time to see the last baby flicker poke it’s head out…preparing to leave the nest… A few miles out of town, this garden...
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Wedding Countdown…3 more days…
As the wedding nears I’m abandoning all thoughts of keeping my usual blog on an even keel, and moving straight to “Zach and Ashton: The Teenage Years.” Well, they were both beautiful teenagers…ladies...
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Postscript: The Dogwood
You may remember we recently lost our old dogwood tree…but my birthday present was the planting of a new tree!!! Here’s the old tree… …and the white flag marking the spot where the new tree was to go…...
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Week’s Worth
Not a momentous week, but like most of our weeks, filled with the lovely variety of things that make our lives…here’s what I’ve been up to: Check this out people…every Tuesday in May conservationist...
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Gardens and Quilts
Aislinn and Tommy’s garden is beautiful this year. She got rid of the grass a few years ago and filled the yard with natives, nurse logs, stones…and slowly filling it up and out until this year it is...
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Back in the Swing….
I took a bunch of my art work over to Monmouth last week for Eric Olsen’s Edward’s Addition open house, and the next day R and I went to see how it came out. The house is very nice, all on one floor,...
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Hello March!
In Like a Lion today…hail, wind, pouring rain…but a happy day nonetheless. The first Tuesday of the month is quilt group and today we went out to Lynda’s where everything is about sewing…the flower...
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SUMMER!
I actually do have a serious and informative post for later in the week, but I’ve been doing some summer things of late…it began with a seismic upgrade which meant cleaning the basement, this of a...
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The Back Door is Open…
Spring is finally here…the tree peony is opening! Certainly the queen of this garden… Live in the moment we read everywhere…and the moments delight us, amaze us, amuse us and sadden us ..which I guess...
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Raising Our Spirits
Yesterday was kind of, well, let’s just say “underwhelming” and let it go at that. I did get an invitation for us to wander through a local garden, and it seemed miraculous on a sunny morning…our...
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Early Friday in the Garden
We are living in a tragedy, all of us. It is of epic proportions, we are beginning to fully understand. As artists we try to bear witness to what is happening to us and around us. We know other...
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Well, There Went the Summer
Greetings friends. I was somewhat dumbstruck this morning when I realized August was history. September hours begin tomorrow at the food cart, school starts next weeks for the grands, I bought a...
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A Sunny Day
By this time, at the tail end of winter, the weather seems to govern the emotions more…sleepy or depressed on a rainy day and then along comes a sunny day and…elation. Today is such a day and I walked...
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