By Bill Duncan The View From Here
A columnist has to be careful what he writes or he may be required to eat his words. So it was with last week’s column, in which I extolled the virtues of a vegetable garden and downplayed the importance of a flower garden. I acknowledged there are [...]
By Bill Duncan The View From Here
To be honest with you, as a gardener I am not much on flowers. I am a vegetable gardener pure and simple. They tell me that some flowers are edible, but they don’t seem very appetizing to me. Not even a Zucchini bloom.
Oh, I know, having been reminded many [...]
By Bill Duncan The View From Here
It is said that art is in the eye of the beholder. The citizens of Bend, Ore., probably thought this recent visitor was a blind beholder of its unique street art in the centers of its 14 roundabouts. That is because I was trying to take notes while going [...]
By BILL DUNCAN Elder Statesman July 2006
The late Jeff MacNelly’s cartoon strip "Shoe" has always interested me as a reader mainly because his main character, the wise old owl, is a newspaper editor who’s desk is piled higher than mine. He also often captured the game of golf with about the same viewpoint [...]
