Last Thursday, after posting my blog, I joined the Plein Air Painters of Portland at Cornell Farms to paint pumpkins. It was my first time with a plein air group, and I did enjoy it so will do again. The painting I did has already found a home, I will be delivering it Saturday after…
TheTravelsketcher’s Tuesday – Quick pizza
Pizza is a food group. Wood-fired ovens are cathedrals that produce the most divine of offerings. We often make our own pizza dough, though the tossing of it still evades me. But… what to do when you need more instant gratification? Enter the Indian gift of naan. I have used both pita bread and naan…
This week in The Pearl – October 8, 2026
We started the week by getting jabbed, both flu and COVID. I don’t get anti-vaxers, we have been in a lot of groups of people around the world and vaccines have kept us from catching COVID, I know some who were vaccinated did catch it, nothing is 100%, but we always get our shots. With…
Thoughts from theTravelsketcher – Our national treasure
Many have correctly called our National Parks a national treasure, I could not agree more. We were in Lassen Volcanic National Park a couple of weeks ago – our parks are amazing. It is such a tragedy that funding has been cut for them, we need to defend our National Parks. Here are few photos…
This week in The Pearl – back home
We are back in The Pearl, we drove home Tuesday from Florence – it was such a peaceful and enjoyable trip. Last Friday we started the day with breakfast at The Blue Ox Cafe in the Redwood National Park. I was fancying pancakes, a once a year or so desire, and remembered that when we…
