tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76644013423846445692024-03-05T23:37:04.416-08:00Meanderings and SketchesThoughts of a Landscape Designer, Vineyardist, Mother, Wife, and Artist.Lindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08579889059042782288noreply@blogger.comBlogger53125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7664401342384644569.post-76142161349176914482013-09-17T11:27:00.002-07:002013-09-17T11:27:45.516-07:00The days go by....too fast!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Another year has almost slipped away and I have been negligent about posting to this blog! But better to have a few entries than none at all....2013 was the year that I really increased my sketching time and became more productive. We also traveled again to the Caribbean for 10 days in mid Winter, and then to hot Spain in July where I attended a sketching Symposium. Lots of inspiration was found on both trips! Cycling, teaching and working on the vineyard and property occupied the rest of the year. Our family was also productive, and increased by one in mid August with the arrival of grandchild number three! Couldn't be happier!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Art in some form, specifically sketching, watercolor, and silk screen printing, have always been part of my life. My parents, who were both art teachers, were always an inspiration for me. Recently I uncovered some of the travel journals that they created and was re-inspired! My father died young at age 62 but left behind his footprint....beautifully rendered pen and inks taken during his one and only trip to Europe soon after he retired and only a few years before he had a heart attack. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My mother took her first trip without my dad to attend a painting workshop in Mallorca back in 1978. My favorite sketch of hers......</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"> And one of mine sketched on the beach in Antigua.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Two of my sketches from Spain...the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona and a view of the Cathedral steeple in Palma, Mallorca. A wonderful part of our time in Mallorca was to retrace the steps that my mother took when she was there. Not much had changed...especially in the sleepy little towns along the Western coast where she did most of her sketching.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Back home I did some sketching with Portland's Urban Sketchers group and experimented with new toned paper and white gel pens.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Recently I've completed a series of watercolor/pen and ink sketches that will be auctioned off at the Zenger Farm's fundraiser dinner in October. This is a great sustainable farm located within Portland's urban boundaries that has a wonderful collection of old barns and outbuildings. My son Eric is on their Board of Directors.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With October only a few weeks away our</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> work now is focused on the annual grape harvest!</span> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This photo was taken over 25 years ago as I proudly showed off one of our first totes of Pinot Gris! Our five acre vineyard has produced from only a few tons to over 18 tons over the years. We are hoping for an average harvest this year after a few poor harvests. Climate change has been a factor!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Here's to a great Fall! Cheers....from Cloudrest!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The second</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> half of 2012 really got away from me this time! When I last posted in mid Summer I was still strapped into a back brace after spinal surgery in late June! By August I was traveling East to spend a glorious week on the coast of Maine... on Monhegan Island and at a niece's wedding near Bar Harbor. Both locations renewed my childhood memories of rough Atlantic beaches, salt water, and the taste of lobsters and clams!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Back home to a modest grape harvest and copious amounts of pears and apples! Thanksgiving found me very thankful for a healed spine and wonderful friends and family!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I hope that the New Year brings a new vision for our country...common sense solutions to the upward spiral of violence and anger that seems to have permeated our society....and the world in general. We MUST come together on some of these issues like gun control and a dead-locked Congress. Has technology taken away our compassion and the basic social skills that make us human? Have we lost the ability to focus or to see the other side of the issue? Our children are growing up without the innocence that once came with playing hide and seek and hopscotch. Do we take them camping and bike riding so that they will grow up appreciating the natural world....or just let them play aggressive video games? Do we really want to take pleasure only from our memories of what used to be? We can do better.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's been awhile since my last post....partly because I had spinal surgery near the end of June and have been in a slow recovery mode ever since! I've had lots of time to gaze out upon the garden, and only recently have been able to walk around it. The Summer has crawled to slow motion in my mind as I watched the roses come and go and then bloom again (thanks to the deadheading done by others!) Now the Lilies are ebbing and the late Summer flowers are starting to emerge. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">It is a frustratng thing when you are not able to bend or twist for 3 months! When something drops on the floor or you see a lovely weed that needs to be pulled, you can only call for help! A very frustrating thing indeed...especially when I honestly like to weed and pick up things!! </span><span style="font-family: Verdana;">If it's located in the area from </span><span style="font-family: Verdana;">my knees to the top of my head I can handle it .... beyond that I am forced to use </span><span style="font-family: Verdana;">"the Grabber"! Have you ever tried to move a pile of decaying grass clippings with one of those things!!!</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> With two more screws added to my spinal column ( I already have 18 in my neck from an operation 5 years ago) I am beginning to feel like one of those robotic toys! I know that it just takes a bit of patience and I will soon be able to garden, hike and ride my bike again. My nemesis now is the back brace that needs to be worn whenever I am up and about. I think I know what the Victorian ladies felt like, but this happens to be worn on top of whatever outfit you may be wearing! ( mostly T-shirt and yoga pants)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am now looking forward to seeing the tomatoes ripen, and the beans and squash grow! ( and perhaps designing a solar shade garden under the array?!!)In another month I should be ready for more activity but I am not entirely upset by this time of 'rest'.....it definitely gives you a different perspective and makes you realize how much we take for granted in this world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's the first of June and the Iris and the Peony are brightening up the garden! The various shades of green are accented by these new blooms that punctuate the garden beds.....one of my favorite times to be outside.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> It's Rose Festival time in Portland and my roses are just starting to bloom, while the streets in Portland are already filled with cascades of roses. For now....up here at Cloudrest, the Peony rules!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Iris are accented by Geranium macrorrhizum, and the blue gray leaves of Rosa glauca.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Masses of white blooms cover Choisya ternata, tucked between the variegated leaves of Cornus`</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Hedgerow Gold' and Spiraea 'Limemound'.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Down in the Potager garden my favorite Deutzia is in full glory....with flower clusters so perfect that they just don't look real!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Also in the same garden the Royal Sunset rose has produced it's first bloom! This will fade to a soft pink.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Another rose that has just about taken over the vegetable area ( it's tree-like at 10ft. by 10 ft ) is covered by masses of individual single red roses). Unfortunately, I've misplaced it's name and must do some research!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And to accent our new pot from Tubac, Arizona... Abelia x 'Kaleidoscope' shines at the end of the deck</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">It's a cheerful time of the year!</span></div>Lindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08579889059042782288noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7664401342384644569.post-82117180679006955052012-05-05T12:54:00.000-07:002012-05-05T13:24:31.795-07:00Spring Awakens Slowly<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Spring has</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> been slow to materialize here in Portland this year....But at least on a few days, when I took my Illustration class out to sketch, we were able to enjoy some of the forest gems that were emerging from a soggy forest floor. There's nothing prettier or more uplifting than the bright greens of new foliage sprinkled on the forest floor or scattered in the canopy above!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The exercise was to</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> walk slowly down the path ( located behind the main buildings to the north of the main campus of Portland Community College at Rock Creek) ....stopping every 10 steps to do a quick sketch ( of only 30 seconds or so!) and then moving on to do another sketch....and another! With 20 students I had a hard time getting them to spread out a bit, or to not spend too long on each sketch. The idea was to look at the overall shapes and patterns of dark and light, and to quickly sketch your impression...then move on... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Back in my own garden, the new leaves are emerging and new pots are brightening up the decks....Even Lucca seems to be waiting for warmer temps and the Summer to come!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We took a short trip across the Santiam mountain pass to central Oregon earlier this week so that we could play in the snow, enjoy some sunshine, and also the high desert around Bend and the community of Sunriver. Again....another change of scenery! I especially love the early Spring colors that show up in the grasses and shrubs, and the shapes of the snow patches that dot the meadows.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Back home again....we arrived just in time to welcome a few snowflakes that seemed to follow us over the pass! By morning of the next day ( March 22nd)we were looking at a very pretty 'Winter scene'....but not what I wanted to see! Daffodils had started to open and my garden was beckoning for me to come rejuvinate it for Springtime visitors. Now it all lay under a blanket of very wet, heavy snow! Lucca loved it though!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We just got back from a week's stay in Tucson....soaking up the sun along with enjoying the company of college friends. It was a wonderful change of scenery from Portland, especially since we left with snow on the ground and some nasty cold weather. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">One of our adventures down there was a three hour hike in Sabino Canyon along the Esperero trail. With temperatures in the low 80's, it was the perfect time of year to go....although even then, I was feeling the heat! (and the extremely dry air) I managed to do a sketch while sitting on a very hard rock in a very small patch of shade. I added the watercolors later.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I love the beautiful natural arrangements of rocks, grasses, and old twisted trees that often line the dry washes where the trail seemed to cross again and again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">not used except on the golf courses! This grouping was in the garden of our hosts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Fountains can often take the form of the native plantings, as with this ceramic cacti discovered in the art packed town of Tubac, near the Mexican border.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">A few days at the coast can be a wonderful thing, especially when it's shared with my husband of forty seven years and our dog of one and one half years! It was Lucca's first time stepping onto sand and seeing, hearing and smelling the ocean. Even though we live a little more than an hour's drive away, we had never taken him to the Oregon Coast. Having a wedding anniversary just shy of 50 years called for more of a celebration than just dinner out....so we opted to book a room on the beach and enjoy watching Lucca see it for the first time!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and met quite a few new friends along the way. Haystack Rock, the town's signature rock, looms above the endless stretch of sandy beach, and is always a draw for visitors....Lucca, included.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And the perfect end to a great anniversary celebration. Forty seven years ago... we were married forty miles from NYC in the town where I grew up. Two sons, two grandchildren, five dogs, and numerous cats later, we find ourselves living in Oregon....growing grapes, riding bikes....and most of all, still loving each other, and life! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This week it was snow instead of fog.....and another walk that made me see things differently! What a difference a mere three inches of snow can make.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What's left of our grape crop ( mostly stems after the birds came through) is now covered in snow!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I took a walk this foggy morning in early January... down our country road... past our vineyard and the lichen covered fruit trees ... past the neighbor's Alpacas ... past the barking dogs who didn't hear me on the way down ( but did on the way up!) ... past the familiar sloped forest with it's ghostly fir trees and fern-covered floor ... past the yellow signs that stood out in a colorless landscape of soft greens and grays ... and past the farmfield with it's ancient equipment hiding in the weeds.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was a very peaceful journey, and the fog seemed to give more clarity to the small details that appeared to emerge from the once complex landscape. It was like walking into a watercolor sketch....watching the layers of color-tinted wash create depth....then adding, with a fine brush, the details in the foreground!</span></div>
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<br /> </div>Lindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08579889059042782288noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7664401342384644569.post-82813644494294009752012-01-06T16:32:00.000-08:002012-01-10T10:40:55.314-08:00Reflections...and a New Year<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2012 is here! Such anticipation comes with it, along with all of the hope that a New Year brings ...especially after ending a year, that for many, brought heartache and pain. The world endured more natural disasters and conflicts than ever before, but also witnessed human resilience and creative solutions to match. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana;">It is an amazing time to be alive! I remember wondering as a small child whether I'd be around when the year 2000 came! It is also amazing to see that I have passed that milestone by more than a decade, am probably considered 'old' by many, but don't realize it!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Today I celebrated by visiting Portland's Lan Su Chinese Garden with my daughter-in-law. It was a cool, cloudy day with fog lingering on the valley floor and along the river banks. The garden, located on a city block near the Willamette River, was serene ...but filled with visitors enjoying the meditative experience. Details of texture and pattern were everywhere!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In contrast to the seasonal changes, one of my favorite elements in the garden are the beautiful bonsai pots planted with groves of 'miniature' trees that appear to be suspended in time. I finally succumbed and bought one at their garden sale a few years ago ....Just looking at one rests my mind!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">...and said good-bye to the shadowy koi on the way out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And as a perfect ending to my morning....I finally took a picture of the White Oak trees that sit in a farmer's field near the bottom of our hill. I pass them almost every day and am always distracted by their beauty. Along with the Douglas Fir, they covered our valley hundreds of years ago...now only scattered groves exist. One day soon I will need to sketch them!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Addendum....a few days later.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This year, for the first time since we planted our grapes in 1984, we were not able to harvest due to low sugars and a general lack of ripening. We had a very late cool, wet Spring along with a cool Summer. Most vineyards with an elevation over 600-700 feet were in trouble. Every vineyard was a month or more behind schedule on ripening, and since we normally harvest in late October, our window of opportunity was considerably diminished! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">We normally put up bird netting since the migratory birds come in mid October and birds love grapes! Many vineyards who don't normally do this because of earlier harvest dates, were forced to net or use canons. By early October we knew we'd be too low in sugars to harvest , so we didn't net. Our sugars only got to a high of 18 BRIX ...not good enough.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As the leaves in the vineyard turned yellow and then slowly fell off with our first frost, it became more obvious that something this year was different! No nets to remove.....only rows and rows of beautiful, plump grapes! They would normally have turned a deep reddish purple ( veraison ) in September, but even that color change wasn't happening very uniformly. Many clusters were still green or only tinged with purple. The fruit was clean, but not ripening fast enough.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The day after Thanksgiving it happened.....thousands of birds ...clouds of birds ....descended into the vineyard! The noise was deafening. many roosted in the high firs and black walnut trees that ring our 12 acre property. As I write this a day later, they are still here....it may take a few days to eat, what we estimate, are 12-14 tons of grapes!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is fascinating to watch them swoop and move around in large clouds across the vineyard rows .... they appear to be mostly Starlings, with some orange breasted Robins scattered in the mix. A few hawks have come to observe, causing the large masses of birds to divide and disperse, and then reform again on the other side of the vineyard.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">We just hope that next year we can bring our crop in at the normal 22+ sugar, and that the birds have a short memory!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">In the mean time, you can taste Oregon Pinot Gris at <a href="http://www.oakknollwinery.com/">www.oakknollwinery.com</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Despite a busy cool Fall with the grapes still lingering on our yellow-leaved vines, my mind still wanders back to a fairy tale day in Portugal in July of this year. On a sunny, warm day we took the train from Lisbon to visit the World Heritage town of Sintra, located in the rugged hills not far North of the city. Walking a short distance from the station we glimpsed the twin towers of the Sintra Palace, otherwise know as ' Madonna's Bra' by the locals!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Walking further up towards the town, along a ravine that appeared to be a town park, we spotted several large 'animals' through the jungle-like foliage.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Leaving the streets behind us we found ourselves going through a turn gate at the end of a very steep dead end street .... and were suddenly on a woodland path that meandered for a few miles through large boulders and huge twisted trees! ( a great place to be for Halloween! ) We met few people on the path.... probably due to the fact that most people took tour buses to get to the various sites. Arriving through the woods was waaay better!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A view of the Moorish Castle walls suddenly appeared before us, as the path skirted around this massive ruin dating back to the 8th century. It fell to the first Portuguese king, Afonso Henriques, in 1147. Stopped here to watch an archeological dig taking place.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Trekking on and upward we finally reached our destination....the Pina Palace, a specimen of Romantic architecture dating back to 1840. It was built 500 meters above sea level by King Ferdinand II on the earlier 16th century ruins of an ancient convent. The meandering structure is a bewildering mix of many styles and ornamentation, with sections that go back to the original 16th century monastery. In later years his son created a huge park around the palace, and modern royals have occupied the Palace through the early 1900's.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The wonderful muted colors and fanciful Moorish-influenced decorations were amazing! I loved walking the ramparts and seeing the amazing views. I would also have loved to sketch this place, but it would have required staying there for days ...so my camera captured the moment instead. Many of the interior rooms were furnished so you were able to get a feeling of what life was like for a king at the time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A much easier hike going down, and then a train ride home completed a very interesting day. I snapped numerous photos of endless graffiti that lined the walls along the train tracks! Then....back to Lisbon, land of cobbles, and another journey unfolds. Our last week was spent in the Algarve, along the Southern coast ... </span><span style="font-family: Verdana;">to be told in my next installment.</span></div>
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</div>Lindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08579889059042782288noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7664401342384644569.post-46148939674382009992011-09-16T13:59:00.000-07:002011-09-16T13:59:01.872-07:00The Medieval town of Obidos, Portugal Part 3<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This isn't Oregon! From Lisbon, we took a bus to the Medieval town of Obidos, located a few hours North of Lisbon. An exquisite castle sits on the North end of the town, connected to the watch tower at the South end by long walls that encircle the small town of whitewashed buildings. The simple buildings are decorated with blue and yellow paint and the ever present Portuguese tiles. Moorish and medieval influences are present everywhere. The castle has been rebuilt and enlarged many times. In fact, parts of the town were destroyed by the famous earthquake of 1755. Reconstruction began soon after to preserve this important landmark... a town that goes back in the records to 308 bc !</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Brave souls (my husband Fred and our friend, Jim Dauber) walked along the top of the wall encircling the town. No guard rails here!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The plants are gorgeous...and can handle the dry, hot climate. At one time it is thought that this inland town sat at the base of a sea inlet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You enter Obidos through an archway that extends through a small decorated chapel. Beautiful blue and white tiles cover the walls and multicolored tiles depict flowers and plants on the ceiling. This elaborate introduction is in stark contrast to the simple whitewashed buildings that confront you on the other side.</span></div>
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</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">The day after our arrival I walked down the cobbled streets and across the flat part of Lisboa called the 'Baixa', then up the hill into the 'Chiado' district ....around the corner to the Faculade de Belas Artes, where the sketching symposium was based. It took about 15-20 minutes, depending on how many times I stopped to take photos! What a lovely way to start the morning.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div> <span style="font-family: Verdana;">Trolley cars went by along the winding tracks and past buildings both sculpted or dressed with tile. ....like pretty packages waiting to be opened!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Looking up, you would often see a collection of plants growing along the roof lines , brought in from the constant winds that cooled the air on a warm July day. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My final destination was the college...where we all met to break out into the smaller workshops that fanned out across Lisbon.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After a full day of sketching I would often meet my husband and we would discover another wonderful viewpoint over the city before searching for a cafe for a late supper. What an adventure for this 'girl from the country'! Discovering a new city can be pretty exciting.</span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Time got away from me this Summer! In June we traveled back East to my 45th Cornell reunion and enjoyed the beautiful campus in Ithaca, New York. And just recently we returned from a wonderful trip to Portugal so that I could attend a three day sketching symposium in Lisbon. Between these two trips, and a few local excursions, we have accumulated thousands of photographs between us, and I've filled numerous sketchbooks! Once we got back, catching up with our normal home, garden, and vineyard chores hasn't given me much free time to spend blogging ... but here I am ... anxious to share all the wonderful sights that we saw while they are still fresh in my mind.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">There are many stories to tell about Lisbon... hills .... cobbles ... trolley cars ...graffiti ... patterns ...color and light! Traveling around the compact city was an adventure! To negotiate the many hills within the city is a challenge.... steep cobbled streets and stepped pedestrian walkways are everywhere, but the most amazing solution are several huge exterior 'Elevadors' that connect people to the upper and lower areas of the city! One of the most elaborate is the 'Justa Elevador', a 150 ft tall tower designed in 1902 by a student of Gustav Eiffel.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was the perfect adventure on a hot day in Lisbon!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">For more info on the Urban sketchers, and to see some of the wonderful sketches that were produced, go to our <a href="http://symposium.urbansketchers.org/blog">blog</a>.</span></div>Lindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08579889059042782288noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7664401342384644569.post-19886101703016186912011-05-22T17:44:00.000-07:002011-05-22T17:44:01.167-07:00Portland's Japanese Garden<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmOU82b-t3H0jSdJW8G4qtCACQYeTJ87j00kJkZkzn-egfCepCI6vJOX-EoprNiyiN0J7sa_Vk1e29yukHyBucCYfvsSnV2Ot9Lrr-XkZxABbheTtlx-Foiwq9DVOAEhAa5_BG72hIh7c/s1600/JapaneseSketch1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="268" j8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmOU82b-t3H0jSdJW8G4qtCACQYeTJ87j00kJkZkzn-egfCepCI6vJOX-EoprNiyiN0J7sa_Vk1e29yukHyBucCYfvsSnV2Ot9Lrr-XkZxABbheTtlx-Foiwq9DVOAEhAa5_BG72hIh7c/s400/JapaneseSketch1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Last week I finally had a sunny, relatively warm day,</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> so I visited Portland's wonderful Japanese Garden to try my hand at sketching. I think the garden is at it's best in Spring when the fresh new foliage emerges....with the various shades of green and bronze accenting the forms and textures of the plants. There is almost a glow radiating out from the landscape! Peaceful wanderings.....</span></div><br />
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</div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mind and soul are at rest</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now that Spring is FINALLY here....</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bring on Summer!</span></div>Lindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08579889059042782288noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7664401342384644569.post-8417568096073927072011-05-08T12:16:00.000-07:002011-05-08T13:37:24.480-07:00A reluctant Spring<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYB552M9seiCZll336e62Z2n6fQ4i87GcDmi3GOiQ29fvI7Sg-fsGl0iWtNWJ8L71SG16CN_Ns55L4G9RIcOWqYufmaGAiy_81q9hUxZrn5GfzJNeMMRq9yC1_OMVn4jmtzKt6Q49OeTs/s1600/CherryBlossoms.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" j8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYB552M9seiCZll336e62Z2n6fQ4i87GcDmi3GOiQ29fvI7Sg-fsGl0iWtNWJ8L71SG16CN_Ns55L4G9RIcOWqYufmaGAiy_81q9hUxZrn5GfzJNeMMRq9yC1_OMVn4jmtzKt6Q49OeTs/s400/CherryBlossoms.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Spring is arriving one day at a time here in Oregon. It has been slow coming....definitely green and lush, but also wet and cool! When Mt Hood appears it is shimmering under a deep white blanket from another freshly laid snowfall. Unfortunately our grapevines have yet to break bud, but at least the newly installed deer fencing has kept them outside of our 12 acres....so far.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">It's been a busy time with quite a few new landscape clients wanting extended consults that include a site visit and then two sketches...a concept plan and a perspective drawing. I really enjoy both the immediacy of the process and the fact that the client is more involved. One of my clients who I referred to in a January entry finally had a window for the 7 large screening trees to be installed. There is more work to be done but at least they have a bit of privacy now from the huge new house that was built just feet from their property line. The people at 'Big Trees Today' did a great job of installing these 20 ft. tall Leylandi Cypress! A new pergola still needs to be built in the narrower section directly behind the house to give them the privacy they deserve.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Forget-Me-Nots dot the beds and bloom in the lower garden, which will soon be joined by two dozen tomato plants, and rows of newly emerging lettuce, kale, and beans. At our elevation most of the active growing doesn't start until June, when the soil finally starts to warm up. For now, fresh new tree leaves are starting to unfurl, often competing with the numerous types of lichen and moss that attach themselves to many of the branches.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our sailboat usually anchors in about 7 -10 feet of the clearest aqua blue water that you have ever seen, inside the long curved reef that hugs the SE coast of the island. Only a few boats, if any, are anchored near us or within sight. Occasionally a local fishing boat will approach offering up the native lobster! On the other side of the reef the Atlantic Ocean whips up large waves and throws up assorted debris on the long white stretches of beach facing the ocean.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">On the reef side, jagged, sharp rocks covered with swiss-cheese-like holes create a magnificent 'rock garden'. We often spend hours exploring all the nooks and crannies, observing the unusual plant and wildlife, and basking in the brilliant sunlight. </span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We spent two days here, enjoying the clear water along with the solitude and the sounds and sights of nature at it's best. I think that my favorite past-time was to swim to a nearby reef and gently glide over that underwater world. Unfortunately, I didn't have an underwater camera to capture the colorful fish and coral that snorkeling uncovers! It was all miles, and a world away, from my life in Oregon. Every night we saw another sunset, and this year, a bigger than normal full moon! </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div>Lindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08579889059042782288noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7664401342384644569.post-91414462452429062052011-02-12T12:43:00.000-08:002011-02-12T13:24:58.823-08:00Part 2: A Winter walk<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHEuRj-jpvLYg0ZG1xpktngQYuCaZ41UeqM2rerSSLQQ1MopVPvpL8qOoN71awscZ8moZluMltrsncE9KU9BxC8lvDEGIBwRtEg56FC1xE7BSzKFatKSjyXKIlunNimxsSsPKGIzulajE/s1600/FernFall.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" h5="true" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHEuRj-jpvLYg0ZG1xpktngQYuCaZ41UeqM2rerSSLQQ1MopVPvpL8qOoN71awscZ8moZluMltrsncE9KU9BxC8lvDEGIBwRtEg56FC1xE7BSzKFatKSjyXKIlunNimxsSsPKGIzulajE/s400/FernFall.JPG" width="297" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sunny, dry days grab me by the arm and force me outside...this time for a walk with my neighbor in the woods just to the South of us. I always take my camera...just in case.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">The trees around here are dressed with the latest in Winter finery....besides the many varieties of lichen and moss, my favorite are the ferns. They often flow from the tree crotches like green waterfalls, or delicately hang from the branches like Winter scarfs! Nature has dressed the woods so beautifully.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Large stumps still exist where loggers from decades ago cut down the tall, majestic Cedars and Fir. Some stumps even retain the axed out niche where the plank board was jammed into the trunk. Now only a few giants remain...and they are impressive. Somehow Nature manages to create compositions that inspire... a branch falling here, moss growing there, decay and new life....all balanced and beautiful.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">The Fir trees at the top of the ridge to our right were thinned, since they weren't large enough for clear cutting. We are thankful for that. Other slopes show signs of new Fir seedlings as they finally reach above the grasses and native vegetation. Another cycle begins.....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And it's time to get out the sketchbook.....</span>Lindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08579889059042782288noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7664401342384644569.post-53765513271856655092011-01-28T12:58:00.000-08:002011-01-28T13:27:33.001-08:00The serenity of the Winter Landscape<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRraVmn-eEF1-NQWqvaeVlG3_EsRcWRDgsqHsU603RdiFB2rTY_Wp5T4lZwo4bjUU2XvQKUuAo-XB2CSTvemJ9QqsXUBxR0OlCXnB2CFe63u5OJwv9Sr-jGvyRAPlAFtN_7lEFXZ0oxwQ/s1600/Fir+Fog1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" s5="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRraVmn-eEF1-NQWqvaeVlG3_EsRcWRDgsqHsU603RdiFB2rTY_Wp5T4lZwo4bjUU2XvQKUuAo-XB2CSTvemJ9QqsXUBxR0OlCXnB2CFe63u5OJwv9Sr-jGvyRAPlAFtN_7lEFXZ0oxwQ/s400/Fir+Fog1.jpg" width="298" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My Winter garden knows no boundaries....it extends out into the rain forest to our South, and out across the valley, all the way to Mt. Hood, some 70 miles away. On an early morning walk a few days ago, I came across my favorite group of moss and fern covered trees. The sun was streaking through the branches, releasing drifts of steam that swirled up into the crisp morning air. Pure magic that lasted only a few seconds as I passed by. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Closer to the house, Winter blooms and textural contrasts abound. One of my favorite plants, the Hellebores, are just starting to bloom, contributing pastel shades of chartreuse, pink and yellow to the many shades of green.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A sun bleached skull</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> found many years ago on the property sits in the crook of one of our remaining English walnut trees. When we bought our acreage back in 1973 it was a walnut orchard, with over 40 trees. Now only a few remain, and a 5 acre vineyard has taken their place. Unfortunately, the squirrels have taken to stealing the nuts before they ripen!</span><br />
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</div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Steps, surrounded by <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">rhododendron, fern and hosta,</span> lead up a pathway that circles around our deck. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Steel lanterns located in our entry courtyard and along the driveway add needed light in the evenings. Living out in a rural area like ours can be great for star-gazing but also can be pitch black at night!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">My husband, Fred, who dabbles in welding, created a series of lanterns along our long gravel driveway that add just the need illumination.</span><br />
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</div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Walking through a Winter garden feels more serene. I also see things that I don't see in the Spring or Summer. The colors tend to be more muted, and sometimes even appear as a black and white image. Think of the aesthetic difference between a black and white photograph and the same image in color. Often the B &W has more impact because texture and form and composition become more focused in our mind. Snow covered landscapes are even more abstracted. Winter beckons....take a walk....see an empty pot filled with rainwater, or a simple ceramic art piece that was hidden by foliage earlier in the year. Explore and enjoy!</span>Lindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08579889059042782288noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7664401342384644569.post-12415385611686879982011-01-15T14:54:00.000-08:002011-01-16T12:02:39.734-08:00Moving Forward in the New Year<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7pFS0n6qpYs5mCINIvTg_OqfrwyVnQ9oOxw8Flqb9R-OWpfDVOAvFfSJnWBNJF5ROhQBx8g470dn_DXBxnfyKsBvQ4lWnFKtdXRZvT3ZDudmpwkkMSg0QBBFLaRzQ1kzO3MwOXghgJFY/s1600/JohannesSketch2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="290" n4="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7pFS0n6qpYs5mCINIvTg_OqfrwyVnQ9oOxw8Flqb9R-OWpfDVOAvFfSJnWBNJF5ROhQBx8g470dn_DXBxnfyKsBvQ4lWnFKtdXRZvT3ZDudmpwkkMSg0QBBFLaRzQ1kzO3MwOXghgJFY/s400/JohannesSketch2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've been having fun working with some new clients in this new year. Ever since the recession, and my own desire to cut back on work, I have adjusted my services to include what I call an 'extended consult'. This involves a consult on site, a few measurements, info from the client, and lots of photos. Then I go back to my studio and work out a simple concept plan and a perspective sketch so the client can visualize my ideas. It generally works best for small properties or just certain areas of a larger garden. It takes much less time, gives the client a broad picture of what the possibilities might be, and costs them a fraction of what a full design would cost. It isn't the answer for everybody but it seems to be filling a niche in today's cut-back economy. It's also fun since it allows me to do the freehand sketching that I enjoy and play with conceptual designing, which is my favorite aspect of the design process! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">My first client of the new year had a real dilemma on their hands when a neighboring one story house behind them was torn down, only to be replaced by a gigantic three story monster that literally loomed above them and totally invaded their sense of private space. Anyone who lives in an urban environment can look forward to the possibility of this happening, especially when infilling and smaller lot sizes are the trend. Luckily they had a nice sized side yard that allowed room for planting a row of large evergreens for screening. A trip to see Terry Hickman at Big Trees Today resulted in suggesting a few options...including the fast growing Leylandii 'Silver Dust'.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">The narrow twelve foot space directly behind the house was a different story.The solution there was to design a pergola, creating a vine-covered outdoor room with a 'ceiling' that would block the neighbor from looking down on their space. Unfortunately, trying to achieve instant screening can be costly. Options must be weighed, and lessons learned. Often it helps if you can work with the neighbor, but this isn't always possible. How would you like to step out your back door and see this?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">In the back yard, steps were added from the existing deck down to a new patio and several terraces were created to make their sloped property more usable. With several trees removed, and some regrading, a new lawn, orchard area, and vegetable garden space will be realized. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Being a designer has it's rewards....I love seeing clients get excited when they can visualize a new, dynamic space for their garden. I love being able to enrich their lives, and calm their minds by surrounding them with the beauty of nature. In our mad world.....we need all the help we can get!</span>Lindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08579889059042782288noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7664401342384644569.post-24870966156657151502010-12-22T16:01:00.000-08:002010-12-22T16:01:16.239-08:00New knees and Christmas trees!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRVHvruuC9pecq33FUR1Wy41VELeAEC76fH7AEzVKGP9cT9ZUk-bN_JjpIpXAP5tDkkyhRQd2jC6KFFREi0HdKhdvAfom2auTCac1uPlwwSZTL9881FVIVmSROElVf63uvGsrrm4XB5LY/s1600/smalltree.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" n4="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRVHvruuC9pecq33FUR1Wy41VELeAEC76fH7AEzVKGP9cT9ZUk-bN_JjpIpXAP5tDkkyhRQd2jC6KFFREi0HdKhdvAfom2auTCac1uPlwwSZTL9881FVIVmSROElVf63uvGsrrm4XB5LY/s400/smalltree.jpg" width="301" /></a><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For the first time in 34 years, we actually bought our Christmas tree this year! Over the years, we've always been able to cut one down on our property .... or from one of our friendly neighbor's property. It usually has stood 9-10 feet tall tucked into the SouthEast corner of our living room. This year we opted for a 3 foot tall potted Deodar Cedar that will be planted out in the garden, or grace one of our decks later in the year. The reason?... my husband, Fred, had his left knee replaced on Dec 13th, and we knew that he would have trouble taking a big tree down! I do miss our usual big tree, but it sure was a snap to decorate the small one ... and I love the new pot! The emphasis is now on all the smaller ornaments that are usually overshadowed by the bigger ones. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Recently I attended a two day workshop on weaving cedar bark baskets in the tradition of the Haida Indians. Instructor Nancy Olson brought gorgeous strips of yellow and red cedar bark that she had personally gathered in the forests of Alaska. It was beautiful stuff! After soaking in basins of water, the bark strips felt like soft leather. For inspiration, she also brought many examples of baskets that she has woven over the years...so many shapes and sizes!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Getting started involved making decisions about color and form. The baskets would be small in order for us to have time in the two day period to finish. Some of the bark strips had been dyed black for accents, but other materials, such as Maidenhair fern, and Bear grass, were available. Beads, shells, bones, feathers, and other ornamentation could be added once the basket weaving</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My two baskets ready to take home! I can't wait to try weaving a few more. The design possibilities are endless! One of my favorites among the many examples that Nancy brought to the workshop was a soft textured basket in green and pale yellow. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">In early October we traveled back East for a 50th High School Reunion in Lancaster, PA., and visited with college friends in St.Michael's, Md. Located on the Chesapeake Bay, it's a very picturesque town with a great boat and maritime museum. I took the opportunity to sketch some of the wonderful historic buildings, trying to use some of the color techniques that I had learned from Tia at the sketch symposium. We also enjoyed a sail on a big old working oyster / sailboat ... on a beautifully warm, Fall day. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Back home in Oregon, we celebrated with our son, Brent, as he took over ownership of <a href="http://www.velocebicycles.com/">Veloce Bicycles</a>, a great neighborhood bike shop in Portland. We wish him well in his new venture!</span><br />
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</div> <span style="font-family: Verdana;">We also watched helplessly as the birds came in to feast on our grapes! It appears that this might be the first year since we planted our vineyard back in 1984 that we are unable to harvest. The sugars have just not gotten high enough and the seasonal rains are closing in. There is, at this point, only a small chance that we'll have enough sunshine and warmth for them to ripen. This is the price we pay for being at a higher elevation than our neighboring vineyards. Everyone, it seems, was 2-3 weeks late in harvesting due to our wetter and cooler Summer. Perhaps that pot of gold will appear in some other form? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And, of course we welcomed back our BIG pup, Lucca, who spent an exciting week in doggie camp while we were gone, and now, at 6 months old, weighs 60 pounds! He already out-weighs our grandson, Brayden.</span><br />
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