Warm weather is expected to beckon residents to the open water this holiday weekend. With that, Lane County Sheriff’s Office has some warnings for boaters.
“I’ve been painting like mad,” Ross said. “It’s all there is to do.”
The art world, on the other hand, maintains an unsure state between keeping doors open under inclement social conditions and dry revenue streams or cutting losses and shutting up shop. Galerie Sonia Monti in Paris shut down in February, for example, leaving Ross to scramble to find a new caretaker for his four exiled women’s portraits at La Tavola Italiana gain Milan.
“It actually fits that ( Nonna Tonsana ) is going back to Italy because it’s a portrait of an Italian grandmother that I painted when we were living in Italy,” Ross said.
Our feathered friends will stand to be counted this weekend (well, as best they can) for the
79th Eugene Christmas Bird Count with the National Audubon Society. COVID-19 has had its impact here, too, says Dick Lamster of the Lane County Audubon Society. A greatly reduced number of field counters on Sunday will form 27 teams and cover a 15-mile diameter. The circle will extend north to the edge of Eugene Airport, east to I-5, west to the edge of Fern Ridge Reservoir and south to Spencer Butte. The field counter positions are filled up, but you can participate as a home counter. Lane Audubon’s Marcia Maffei says 84 households have so far signed up, and there’s room for more. Given the rainy forecast for Sunday, home counting may be the best way to count the native birds, those that recently have migrated from California or those that may have been displaced by the Holiday Farm Fire.