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✨PARK & PLAY IN ARGAY TERRACE✨ Restore Oregon’s Annual Mid-Century Modern Home Tour Get a ticket to see a collector’s dream, that feels alive, not frozen time! HOME TOUR HIGHLIGHT #2 The Home with the Decor (built in 1961) on the Mid-Century Modern Home Tour celebrates original character with preserved cabinetry, three fireplaces, and even a push-button stove. Step into true mid-century charm. Inside, decades of vintage treasures—from Franciscan Starburst to chinoiserie—create a space that feels authentic, curated, and deeply personal. SEE IT IN PERSON! 🗓 Saturday, May 9 🕙 10 AM – 4 PM 👉 Check the link in our BIO to PURCHASE YOUR TICKETS 🎟 TODAY! Thank you to our Restore Oregon Modernism Sponsors! Modern Homes Collective @modernhomescollective Arciform @arciform Lark & Fir Realty @larkandfir Bramske Studio Architecture @bramskestudio Scott Edwards Architecture @scottedwardsarchitecture Durham Construction PDX @durhamconstructionpdx M.O. Daby Design @modabydesign SHIM Design Build Collective @shimdesignbuild Bethany Rydmark Landscapes @brydmarklandscapes Lilyvilla Gardens @lilyvillagardens Vespa Portland @vespa_portland Hammer & Hand @hammerandhandbuilds Risa Boyer Architecture @risaboyerarchitecture Tim Niou @niou.photo . . . #RestoreOregon #ModernHomes #ArgayTerrace #hometour #ModernistSociety

Leach Botanic Garden is under threat of closure. This cherished haven in East Portland has welcomed neighbors and families for generations, and now an enormous shortfall from the city budget looms large. Please join me in signing the petition to ask our Mayor and District 1 Councilors to work to secure funding before June 1st. As a mom and a landscape architect and a member of the community, I can speak on multiple levels to the worthiness of this effort. Find ways to participate: sign the petition, renew (or start) membership, become a monthly donor. Beautiful, healthy third places are the balm for so many of society’s ills. Let’s invest in places of life. “The city has already invested millions of dollars in the garden’s creation. Leach Garden Friends raises two-thirds of the operational budget every year, and it would be a shame to lose the garden’s many-faceted benefits because we can’t find $450,000 somewhere in the city budget.” - Eric Vines, Executive Director Sign the petition (pinned in stories), and help #SaveLeachBotanicGarden /VBYRNxsZJM

Happy V Day especially to all those who get it and are working to compost the crud and grow a better world 🌱💚 To the makers and meme-senders, the friends pushing strollers to hand deliver valentines (and call-your-rep fliers) door to door, the ones organizing kindness and caretaking and protection of our vulnerable fellow human beings, the ones mustering courage to lean hard into the mission of burying the fear and hate in a flood of L O V E. I see you. I love you, too. This goes out especially/specifically @inbaeck , one of my dear and favorite clients who first invited me to her garden ten+ years ago and now sends me home with houseplants and essential reading, and @myhouseofjo who rallies the troops, and @capt_janeway who holds the tensions with deep feeling, and @haleykristine who feels the electric rage and prophetic visions across continents, and @celebrationsofhope who holds tight to goodness, and @adventurealley who keeps as soft and connected as mycelium, and @laurakwutzke who inspires me to keep open and growing and loving the next generation, and @heather_mayer83 who sees rainbows in the storm clouds, and @sydneyvervynck who keeps Good Always Wins spinning, and so many more I’m wishing I could keep right on naming… And this goes to YOU, especially if your liberation is bound up with mine… ✨ I sure love and appreciate how we make each other’s lives better in the living 💘

The only way I know how… (Pull up a seat?)

This Week’s Nourishment // Sustenance 1: Lucie’s homemade guac, Ted’s feta eggs and pork loin, and my home pickled onions (taking extra to the @pdxfoodswap tomorrow) 2: Sascha’s @sauvieshrubs elderberry and rosehip fire cider mocktail for the winter win 3: Sauna/Cold Plunge/Soak/friend time @connect_wellness_spa 4-6: Socratic Forum with the old and young, wise and curious @shirtzenpantz , and the Salmon Room with Grandma Black Bear. 7-8: Marion’s and my second annual blessing jar @larkspurportland , and a stock up on @wildcoastbrew tea. 9: Tears welling at the magic of music (the most kind and thoughtful gift of tickets from Patti and David!): @caitlincanty singing songs so fitting for the moment. 10: Fog on the fields and the road ahead. Reaping/sowing, traveling in trust. Sharing notes from (and for) the journey with the souls whose roots are deep and touching mine. How are you holding up? Which big and small things are feeding your spirit?

Yukizuri（雪吊 ) at the Portland Japanese Garden. Practical and symbolic. Caretaking in seasons of impending stress. Ropes of straw woven into collective strength. Old and young branches protected from snow and ice. As a member of the Sakura Society, I am encouraged and honored to be a patron of this exceptional garden inspiring harmony and peace in Portland and around the world. May we each find ways to tend our gardens and communities with such care. :: Bethany

There is no perfect quote. No perfect reaction. No perfect assessment or take or piece of pithy propaganda to light the way out of this darkness. But there is power in imperfect, honorable, agonizingly honest humanity. Say what you see. Shine into the shadows. Stand for something. Participate in strategic non-violence. Minnesota—we see you. 🕯️🕯️🕯️ Renée Good Alex Pretti Lady Liberty

A very happy Sunday spent with garden lovers (from both sides of the pond). At @hardyplantsocietyoregon ’s invitation, Troy Scott Smith shared stories of Sissinghurst and his horticultural team’s work stewarding the gardens in the direction of Vita Sackville West and Harold Nicolson’s original vision. “Vita’s garden was nourished by patience…exuberant and lavish.” After the lecture, @vwpiercy and I walked the grounds of The Elk Rock Garden Estate and chatted with Laurie Matthews about the Overlook Field School’s recent week teaching/practicing traditional building and maintenance techniques at the house and grounds. Hearing about Sissinghurst’s 300 hour/week maintenance allowance (to tend a garden that’s “rich, generous, romantic, and extreme”), and thinking about what it takes to care for living art…I carry such respect for gardeners who work with nature and the process of change. It’s all a practice, isn’t it? (Life and gardening, both.) “It’s not the gardening that matters, it’s the fact that I’m gardening that’s most important.” -@troyscottsmith1

Exciting news in the #brydmarklandscapes world! A few weeks ago, our team moved into a jazzy new office just at the border of Concordia and Cully, across the street from the new PCC Opportunity Center. It’s a dream to have elbow room and natural light and green out the windows. Back in April, a contractor joked about how fitting it would be for us to have a landscape architecture office with a retracting stadium roof connecting us to the outdoors—and here we are, less than two months later, with a roll up glass door connecting to the patio. 🌿 Wednesday morning, the five of us bustled around prepping for a client meeting, and I paused for a split second to take it all in. Drawings. Inspirations. Fresh flowers. Bright sunshine. Possibilities. Tomorrow, I’m signing off for six days in the wilderness with my family, and I’m grateful to leave the studio in the capable hands of five wonderful women. (Eden, Kirsten, Gini, Jac, and Regina—thank you!) Such gratitude to the Bethany Rydmark :: Landscapes team, and to everyone who helped us shuffle furniture and settle in this past month, and such excitement for the changing seasons and beautiful landscapes on the horizon 💚🌾

In loving memory of Lucy Hardiman and the Perennial Partners who poured their love and encouragement into 20…30…40(+) year old garden-loving me 🤍 Years ago, Lucy sponsored me for my first HPSO membership. This June, I attended the @hardyplantsocietyoregon Portland Study Weekend and palled around with my friend @korinnejames , and it was the best treat to share hugs with the rest of these lovely ladies and soak up themes of Nimble Gardening in an Evolving World. (Fellow plant lovers, who else wants to join next time? Come for the joy of intentional, intergenerational passing on of knowledge and the sweet garden gurus!) There was an audible collective gasp across the auditorium when @giacomo_guzzon shared the stat that Portland’s climate will resemble San Antonio’s by 2050. The world’s changing fast, and nature and wise nurturers are our greatest teachers. 🌿

How’s this for July fireworks? 🎇 One of my favorite past projects is featured in this month’s @oregonhomemag . Head to their site (or better yet get ahold of the glossy version on newsstands) for full spread photos and the story of caretaking and grounding. Featuring early @theguggenheims renovations, @abbycleonard collaboration, @redvalleyllcor installation, and years of @kevnward ’s garden cultivation… 🌾 (Some of you may remember visiting this spot on the @welovemodern garden tour a few years ago… It’s a delight!) Thanks to editor @emilygrosvenor for reaching out to get the story, and hello to some of my fellow creatives featured in the same issue! 👋🏼 @em_henderson @blossomportland @fusion_landscape_design #oregonhomemagazine #brydmarklandscapes #pollinatorfriendlygardening #portlandoregon

“Look to the trees,” I remind myself often (for many reasons). Today: Look to the folks who show up. I see you. 💚 All around our communities…all around our country. I see you. Our roots are connected.