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Living the Green Lifestyle: All the Way Down to Your Picture Framing
If you are like many individuals and families in Central Oregon, you try to make daily choices that help preserve the environment. You carry reusable shopping bags. You use “green” cleaning products. You recycle.
There’s no need to sacrifice your ideals when decorating the walls in your home or business. Eastlake Framing can help you make the right choice.
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We are always honored to frame your most treasured items. Sometimes we get a project that simply touches our hearts and moves us to inspiration. Below is the full-length magazine article about Bend resident, Major Craig Wilhelm and the incredible quilt that was hand-stitched for him out of the battle dress uniforms of the soldiers in his unit – both those who survived their tour in Iraq and the five that had fallen. Please read on and let this story inspire you to pay tribute to our soldiers serving in Iraq. I encourage you to share this with your friends.
My grandmother tells a story of how she, a new mother and only 20-years-old, hopped a train from Florida to Rhode Island in hopes of seeing her husband at port near Providence, RI. He had written several months prior that he might be there. It was the only communication she had from him in months. She had not seen him since their daughter was born. For a glimpse of him and a chance to touch his tender face, she packed her bags and traveled with her infant more than 1,000 miles in 1943. She missed him by less than four hours.
Back then, a letter, a note was all she had to look forward to. It was all she could count on to know her soldier was still alive. Each night, she’d pray she’d never meet two solemn men in uniform to tell her otherwise.
In 2003, when the US invaded Iraq, Josie Basshan-Howe also watched her husband go off to fight a war. Her daughter was only four-months-old. Josie didn’t hear from him again for several weeks. (click here to continue)
