New Zealand Sculpture Farm

I’ve just received more New Zealand photos taken by my brother-in-law, Rick Moskowitz, a Kiwi transplant.

These are from a "sculpture farm" that Rick and a friend visited a couple months ago. But I’ll let him tell the story. Go to his tumblr site HERE to learn, and see, more.

Works of art on the farm are identified by artist HERE.

Hillsdale, but when?

One more photo from John Wardin's family album. It shows the "Hillsdale Triangle" in the upper portion and the Fulton Park Dairy beneath and to the south of SW Capitol Highway running diagonally across the photo. Note the large milking barn at the corner of Bertha and Vermont (which was Hoffman Road). John and I are puzzled about the year. We reckon it must be the early Fifties. There are clues to be found and checked out. For instance, Robert Gray School appears at the top. When was it built? When were the houses built along Sunset Boulevard? The original library hadn't been built — the dog that didn't bark!

Perhaps others will have ideas.

Manzanita in Winter

For all the devastation the December storm caused along the northern Oregon coast, the allure of beach communities like Manzanita was as strong as ever this blustery, overcast weekend.

I was drawn to the swirl of kelp strands, brown-shingled houses, the sinuous groves, the sweeping contous of shore grass. Even to the frayed splinters of a storm-snapped trunk washed up on the beach.

Capturing the fleeting fall

Fall always has a way of escaping me. I need to force myself to stop my preparations for winter. I need to pay attention, to feast on its color, to rustle around in its leaves, to breathe in its edge of briskness.

I took my camera on my walk to the post office today. My aim was to illustrate "the news" of the neighborhood. A new building here; a needed crosswalk there.

Somewhere along the way, I decided that Fall in its flaming fullness is the "news." A time to cherish; a season to share.