Thank you Emerald Art and Todd Peterson

Emerald Art Center,

Springfield, Oregon

I got blogged by Emerald Art Center in Springfield click here to see the article.

Thank you Todd Peterson.

Owen Memorial Garden

Owen Rose Garden

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Renee Manford

Owen Memorial Rose Garden is located in Eugene, Oregon. The park is comprised of nine acres of waterfront property (Willamette River). More then 100,000 people a year pass through the garden. The nine acres were once the property of George Owen, a lumberman and philanthropist. Owen donated the land to Eugene, which began planting roses there in 1950. The garden is open 6 am to 11 pm year-round.

There are many places to sit down, including benches, picnic tables and vast expanses of green grass. Owens Rose Garden is also home to one of few official historic trees in the State of Oregon.

The Black Tartarian Cherry is a great sight. In 1860, one of Eugene’s early settlers planted an orchard not far from the Willamette River. Today, one of the cherries in that old orchard has survived, and grown immense with age. Today, experts recognize it as the biggest cherry in Oregon, and some suggest that it is also the biggest cherry in the U.S. In honor of its size

The Storage  Shed at Dorris Ranch

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Renee Manford

“Dorris Ranch, Springfield’s unique living history farm, has succeeded in bringing Oregon history to life. Established in 1892, this 250-acre farm is Oregon’s oldest working filbert (hazelnut) farm.

Dorris Ranch is recognized as the first commercial filbert orchard in the United States and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Oregon’s history with filberts started in 1892 when George Dorris and his wife Lulu bought 250 acres of fertile land along the Willamette River and dedicated their lives to farming. After experimenting with a variety of crops, George established the first commercial filbert nut orchard in the United States. Over the next 50 years the Dorris family planted 9,200 trees at the Ranch and harvested more than 50 tons of nuts each year.

Now, more than 100 years later, Dorris Ranch continues to make history as a fully-productive commercial filbert orchard. More than half of all the commercial filbert trees now growing in the U.S. originated from Dorris Ranch nursery stock.”

Two Rivers of Oregon

Painting #1 – McKenzie River Summer of 2008

About the McKenzie River:

The McKenzie River is a tributary of the Willamette River, 86 miles long, in western Oregon in the United States. It drains part of the Cascade Range east of Eugene into the southernmost end of the Willamette Valley. It is named for Donald MacKenzie, a Scottish Canadian fur trader.

It rises in two short forks in the high Cascades in eastern Lane County in the Willamette National Forest. The South Fork rises near the Pacific Crest Trail in the Three Sisters Wilderness Area and flows north-northwest approximately 30 miles through Cougar Reservoir and Cougar Dam. The main branch rises in the northeast corner of Lane County, near the Three Sisters and flows west past McKenzie Bridge for approximately 25 miles to where it receives the South Fork approximately three mileseast of Blue River. It flows west through a narrow valley in the mountains, past Vida and Walterville. As it emerges from the mountains it passes along the north side of Springfield and joins the Willamette from the east five miles north of Eugene. The McKenzie is the sole source of drinking water for Eugene.

The McKenzie River is also home of the McKenzie River Drift Boat. This flat-bottomed boat with a high bow is used throughout the world for fishing in fast moving rivers.

Painting # 2 – North Umpqua

About the McKenzie River:

The North Umpqua River is a tributary of the Umpqua River, approximately 100 miles long, in southwestern Oregon in the United States. It drains a scenic and rugged area of the Cascade Range southwest of Eugene, flowing through steep canyons and surrounded by large Douglas-fir forests. Renowned for its emerald green waters, it is considered one of the best fly fishing streams in the Northwest.

Come visit the Renee Manford gallery online

I’ve opened an online gallery.  {CLICK HERE} or on the picture to visit my web site. I hope you enjoy the gallery.

~rjm~

I was Blogged

Last month I had two gallery shows one at Emerald Art Center in Springfield, Oregon and another at the Island Park Gallery also in Springfield. I was asked by a blogger if he might take some pictures of the show and if you click here you can see the Web Log (Blog). He also has a blog called Art for the Soul with a commentary on my art.

This is one of the pictures from the blog called Travels With a Muse.

Monoprints Video with Renee Manford

Video Demonstration of the Monoprint process – video produced by Eugene Register Guard’s art editor Bob Keefer