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Tate and Tate Catering is offering an Easter Brunch menu that includes the option of glazed honey ham or candied maple pepper bacon, pastries and veggie or meat strata; orders have to be placed by March 31. -
Bleu Bite Catering is offering an Easter feast for pickup, with its Easter Original offering marionberry roasted ham, creamy mac and cheese, cheese potato gratin and ambrosia salad. Call for availability.
Tea-dyed eggs make beautiful hues The egg came first. Let s just get that out of the way. For millions of years before humans domesticated the feathered lizards known today as chickens, countless generations of amphibia and reptiles, including dinosaurs, were laying eggs. The egg is an amazing system for nurturing young beings that s just plain awe-inspiring when you think about it. It s also a delicious and beautiful form of animal protein that no animal had to die for. When Easter comes around, people steam their homes with vinegar in order to recreate the pretty colors that come naturally from a diverse set of hens. We backyard hen keepers, aka flocksters, understand the excitement. There is something deeply captivating about a multicolored basket of eggs. We just don t care to wait all year to enjoy it.
As spring rears its temperamental head via finicky post-equinox, high-desert indecision, green thumbs are beginning to feel an irresistible itch. At first glance, newcomers to Bend might think cultivating in nutrient-poor volcanic soils, amid the shortest summer a Californian has ever seen, is all in vain. But to the trained gardener s discerning eye, there is many a lush oasis tucked behind gates and in corner downtown lots to prove otherwise. Denise Rowcroft Part of the The Environmental Center s Kansas Avenue Learning Garden. Whether you want to gather inspiration in creating your own green space or you want to just pass by an inspirational postage-stamp community flower plot, these are a few low-key secret gardens to know about.
If you held a gun to my head and made me pick a favorite genre of movie, I d say horror, but if I got to pick another one, I d say the genre of Lowered Expectations. The best example I can give is The Royal Tenenbaums, where everyone is talented and brilliant in their own ways but is too sad or broken to be anything other than a big batch of wasted potential. Getting to watch characters rediscover their worth is a beautiful thing to me. I ve been hearing about this new movie called The Kid Detective that sounded like it fit the bill perfectly, so I went down to my friendly neighborhood Blockbuster and rented it. Holy hell, everyone, this one checked all my weirdly specific movie boxes. It s sad and funny and exciting and dark all at the same time, while having a legit mystery at its center that can be figured out by intrepid viewers who are amateur sleuths themselves.
Artist Katie Daisy transforms a farmhouse into a whimsical woodland scene While some modern interior design trends lean toward the minimalist, one local artist is forging ahead with the complete opposite style in her new home.
Katie Daisy, this week s cover artist, is widely known for her beautiful, imaginative scenes of birds, flowers and nature in general. Daisy s illustrations can be found around Central Oregon (and far beyond) adorning cards, posters and even textiles and the Foxtail Bakeshop in Bend has an entire wall of Daisy s striking creations in mural form. With that, it should come as no surprise to anyone to know that when given the opportunity, Daisy turned her own home into a whimsical creation, filled with animals and botanical scenes.