This fall, draw inspiration from two artists, Katie Daisy and Sheila Dunn, and two local shop owners, Alicia Renner and Jacq Smith, who we might consider to be Bendโs own โHeirloomsโ of art and style. Over the years, they have contributed creatively to Bend, at times fervently and sometimes ever so subtly, while integrating and […]
Katie Daisy
Scout’s Mobile Refresher Hits the Streets
Bend’s favorite food cart (and the Food Cart of the Year in our 2018 Restaurant Guide), Scoutpost, has opened its second cartโand this one is oh so sweet. Scout’s Mobile Refresher is serving up ice cream, fresh donut holes and dipping sauces. You won’t be able to miss the ballet-slipper-pink cart covered with huge, hand-painted […]
Books by Bendites
Look for these authors’ books at local shops, including Dudley’s Bookshop Cafe at 135 NW Minnesota Ave. in Bend. And look for some of the authors’ own advice in other pages of this guide!
Beauty for the Beasts
If you didn’t find a way to support your local artists in 2016, there’s still time to do so in 2017. Here’s where to start. Flor and Fawn Flor and Fawn is the artistic collaboration between friends Katie Daisy and Karen Eland. On their own, their artistic characteristics are unique and diverse, but together their […]
All Good Things
A few years ago I met a gal. I was officiating a wedding and she was the maid of honor. It was my birthday, so after the ceremony we went downtown to get some drinks and ended up hitting it off swimmingly. Much later that night, we found ourselves in Tin Pan Alley, drunkenly stumbling […]

