This last weekend I stopped by for some window shopping at one of my favorite stores, Digs, a small home & garden shop in NE Portland on Alberta. Some day (I always say next year), when my time in my garden is spent lounging and sipping cocktails, rather than hauling wheelbarrow loads of something [...]
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things and places for homes and gardens
File: April 2008
New leaves are unfurling every day here in my Portland garden. I’m hoping one more sunny weekend will coax the rest of the garden into fully leafing out. I was out of town for a few days, and returned to find some new developments.
Tulip Spring Green
I don’t keep many tulips anymore, since their [...]
Sometimes people ask me for help planning their gardens. Always, I am completely worthless in response. I kind of shrug and say something about planting what you like, or rattle off a couple plant names which conjure images in my own head, but clearly don’t inspire the people I’m talking to. Today [...]
Last weekend, my neighbors let me borrow their adorable pit bull puppy, and I seized the opportunity to appear in public with a dog who, unlike my guys, doesn’t menace every living thing we come across. I took him out to Artemesia Nursery in SE Portland, which I’ve been wanting to check out for [...]
This is the one thing in the Harrah’s Casino in New Orleans that did not take my money.
No. I only lost $32.50. So far. But I still like this gilded banana (palm?) in the casino.
We’re spending a few nights in New Orleans for a conference. It’s our first time in the city, and we spent the evening walking through the French Quarter. About three blocks away from the hotel, we came across an amazing marching band playing outside the House of Blues. The photo doesn’t do [...]
2008-04-23 ::
megan //
Books
Books you might buy for someone you really, really like and want to impress
Books you might buy for someone you really, really like and want to impress
Photo from the Librissime site
My first trip into Librissime on a charming street in old Montreal, I was so excited by all the beautiful books, I spent about a half hour putting my grubby mits on them, until Justin pointed out a $60,000 price tag and wondered aloud what all the white gloves scattered about [...]
Last night, we went out to the Portland Mercury Fashion Show, and our friend Kiala wrote a characteristically delightful and amusing story about it. She emerged from the evening with insightful and witty analysis. What did I come away with? A picture of the pretty wallpaper at Pix Patisserie. And renewed [...]
Last Saturday’s Hardy Plant Society sale yielded a big haul of great stuff. Nurseries from all over the area brought their goods to one place, for gardening enthusiasts to wildly snatch up. My record may have been surpassed, but at the time I checked out, I was told I held the record for [...]
I can totally get behind an online store with a whole page devoted to mirrored furniture, like the Graham and Green online store. Bonus points to the stylist who positioned the Crystal Louis Ghost Chair in the reflection.