Liberate your art!!
Kat Sloma, a local artist (Corvallis, OR) who made her name with her beautiful iPhone images (and went on to write several books) has been hosting a postcard swap for […]
Back at the Sink
In 2003 while living in Florida, I managed associations from my home office. 2003 was also the year I got a Canon30D digital camera and a 100mm macro lens (I now […]
A morning stroll
I braved the nasty I-5/205 traffic to the Portland Japanese Garden this Friday morning. I arrived 15 minutes before the gardens opened to the public (members can go in earlier) and there was […]
Each Fall It’s The Same Thing
Most photographers love Fall…there’s no question that the colors pop – from bright orange pumpkins to fat red apples to crisp colorful leaves. Each Fall finds me fascinated by the […]
To Market To Market
The Saturday market in Salem (Oregon) is always wonderful…it’s dog city with lots of fruits, vegetables, breads, plants and food booths. I especially love this time of year when all […]
State Fair = End of Summer
We love the Oregon State Fair and go every year, but when it rolls around we know that means the end of summer. It’s starting to get darker earlier (albeit […]
4,930 Miles One Way
4,930 miles (one way!) is a long way to fly to see one’s closest friend – and that’s not counting the long train ride – but that’s what my husband and […]
The bees are buzzing!
Each July, lavender farms across Oregon participate for one weekend in a Lavender Festival. This year I visited Barn Owl Nursery just up the road in Wilsonville. The fields there […]
Port and Cork
The afternoon of our second day in Porto – the spectacular capital of northern Portugal – the group left for a wine country tour of the Douro Valley. Bill and I […]
Up the coast
A walled fortress city, the oldest university in Portugal and Fado…what a wonderful two days. After we left Lisbon, we headed north to the beach town of Figueira da Foz. There […]
