Wine Weekend! April 13-15th

Enjoy Columbia Gorge Winegrowers Passport weekend! Kick off the week with a tasting at the Melody Ballroom on April 9th.

Reserve your room stay for the weekend of April 13th and 14th by Saturday, April 7th and we’ll have a special treat for you.

Friday night come straight from work, no need to grab dinner on the way! You’ll enjoy a special gift from us. We’ll include your Passport that includes specials all around . . .
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Artist Denise Vance

Draw! Paint! Draw! This is my system for growth in my work. 

There will always be a reason not to gather yourself together in creativity to do your work. Your desire must outweigh everything else that tries to pull you away.

My work has been consistently with watercolor, influenced by the work of others in experimenting with techniques but ultimately doing what suits me. Watercolor is a most exciting media, with challenges around every . . .
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Get Your Write On. Right on!

Join us for the second annual Creative Renewal Weekend at the Historic Balch Hotel  March 16-18 

This energizing weekend is open to all writers of all levels and promises to lift your creative spirit and fire your imaginative juices over two days and two nights of writing. Led by Attic Institute president David Biespiel and based on his approach to writing from his book Every Writer Has a Thousand Faces, now in its 3rd printing, . . .
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Hot Color for Summer Weddings

I love this post from Stephanie Blackford the Marketing Director at Epicurean Culinary Group. Why? Because orange might just be one of my MOST favorite colors! Enjoy!!   A new year brings resolutions, diet plans, closet cleaning and lots and lots and lots of diamond rings. I couldn’t even concentrate at a recent dentist appointment (honestly, a blessing, right?) because I was so enthralled by the sparkly little number on the dental hygienist’s third . . .
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True Confessions

Ok, I’ll admit it. I used to be a Gorge snob. Anything East of Mosier I thought to be, well, less than desirable.

I love the lush trees, mountains, and greenery. I was incredulous when Nebraska visitors say that they come here and feel ‘claustrophobic’. What?? It’s SO flat in NE. It feels like a cozy hug here.

My description of the Gorge east of Mosier would have contained words like dry, barren, ugly. . . .
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