Imagine getting your driving directions on the windshield of your car or checking email on your bathroom mirror while you brush your teeth. Many of these futuristic concepts began over a decade ago in a research lab at Oregon State University.
photo by Eugene Pavlov Katie Davis, 32, made her first bouquet for her own wedding but didn’t start her flower arranging business, Ponderosa and Thyme, until more than a decade later in 2013. Davis’ signature touch is styling pieces with more than just flowers. She has always had an affinity for foraging, often adding vegetables to arrangements. photo by Eugene Pavlov The former Zumba instructor recently brought those teaching skills to her business, offering classes on floral arranging. In October, she’s leading a three-day foraging and floral design retreat in Sisters. Besides sometimes being asked to stick to a specific color scheme, Davis has the freedom to improvise. “I love that flowers change the atmosphere of a room. I love that people feel loved by flowers— that’s something I really value,” said Davis. photo by Eugene Pavlov photos by Eugene Pavlov photos by Eugene Pavlov photos by Eugene Pavlov…
Glenn J. Hill built his first harp for the reason so many young men do extraordinary things—to impress a girlfriend.
Who pumps citizens’ gas remains a perennial cause for some Oregonians who hope to repeal it and join the other forty-eight states with self-serve gas stations.
Novelist and musician Willy Vlautin is working on his fifth novel, playing with his new band, The Delines, and writing songs as Americana as his novels. Vlautin, who lives in Portland, has been traveling to promote his last book, The Free, while touring with his band and enjoying ongoing praise for prior novels The Motel Life and Lean on Pete.
Named after the cross streets of the garage where founder Scott Andrus started building skis, ON3P became more than a hobby in 2009. In its sixth year, ON3P builds 1,400 pairs of skis per year in the Northeast Portland facility.
A family business, Arrowhead Chocolates sold its first chocolate in 2010. Chocolatier and co-owner, Bruce Reininger, makes more than forty chocolate and filling combinations, hand-crafting over 100 pounds of chocolate per week.
After years of expressing her artistic skills on fabric and canvas, Julia Junkin moved into the electronic realm. Good JUJU, the Bend-based company she founded, released its first messaging app in June and puts Junkin’s art and the portfolios of about fifty painters, illustrators, photographers, graphic designers and typographers at the fingertips of anyone with an iPhone or iPad. By year end, the goal is to have 1,000 artists represented.
Andrea Aranow has traveled the globe collecting and digitizing more than 40,000 textiles.
