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MAY 2021 PUBLISHER

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Creative Women Inspire Our Community WITH MAY’S CELEBRATION OF MOTHER’S DAY, WE DEDICATE THIS ISSUE TO

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ing this issue’s cover is singer/songwriter Lilli Worona, who found a way to channel

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Jen Ladd, whose Sweet Posy floral farm blooms with colorful acres of beautiful flowers, just in time for spring! The farm is poised for small group gatherings this summer and you can find hours for her Sweet Posy roadside stand @sweetposyfloral.

This issue also introduces you to Veronique Waldron, designer and owner of Studio Vero. When you step inside her studio, you’ll be surrounded with fine designer textiles from all over the world, ready to adorn Central Oregon homes. And don’t forget to treat yourself kindly and have something sweet this month! Try the dessert recipe for Key Lime Pie Cupcakes, and get tips for tasting whiskey from local Jason Gartz of The Stihl Whisk(e)y Bar in these pages.

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FEATURES 10 Music Maker Educator and Musician Lilli Worona Creates Her First Album

16 Whiskey Renaissance Enjoy the Smooth Flavors of Distilled Spirits

20 Treat Yourself Recipe for Key Lime Pie Cupcakes Transport Tastebuds to a Sunny Locale

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28 Farmer Florist Jen Ladd Embraces the Slow Flower Movement at Sweet Posy Floral Farm

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M A K E R

IN 2007, LILLI WORONA STOOD BY A CAMPFIRE CIRCLE WITH FIDDLE IN HAND WAITING TO ACCOMPANY A TUNE. Worona, who had recently driven 3,000 miles west from Hobart & Williams Smith Colleges

photosynthesis and natural selection. “Teaching is always

in New York to work at a wilderness therapy organization

my first priority,” explains Worona. “Learning how to have

in Redmond, put aside her anxiety and slowly waded into

a balance between my teaching life and my musician life

the song. “I fell in love with folk and country music and

has been challenging.” Worona takes every opportunity

learned how to improvise in those song circles around

she can to mix music with teaching. As a Madras High

the campfire,” says a reminiscent Worona. She grew up

School teacher, her band performed in the end of the

studying classical violin and sang in the kids’ choir at her

year concert and she invited Bend’s Poet Laureate Jason

local synagogue in Natick, Massachusetts, but hadn’t

Graham to teach spoken word. At her current school,

touched her instrument in almost a decade. By high

Worona started an after school music club and she can’t

school, she had strayed from her musical path towards

wait to be able to start it back up once she is able to safely

the athletic pursuits of swimming and track. Within a

do so. “I miss their energy so much and I am reminded

few years after moving to Bend, Worona was performing

every day why I chose this profession in the first place,”

with local bands, including a tour of Colorado with roots

says Worona. When not playing music or teaching, Worona

rockers Broken Down Guitars, where she got her first

can be found tending to her garden or backpacking with

taste of the musician’s lifestyle while playing to a packed

her husband in the Three Sisters Wilderness. She fell in

bar during an epic Crested Butte snowstorm. Since 2017,

love with backpacking during her college trip abroad in

she has been singing and playing fiddle in the local

New Zealand and since relocating west has explored the

country outfit Dry Canyon Stampede. When not playing

forests from Olympic National Park to Peru.

for crowds of enthusiastic country line dancers or sitting in with various other local bands, Worona is shaping the

TURNING JOURNALING INTO SONGWRITING

minds of Central Oregon’s youth as a science teacher at

As performances were canceled and creativity in the class-

Redmond’s Elton Gregory Middle School. Nights filled

room turned to computer-based lesson plans last spring,

with songs and fiddle solos are replaced by days of

Worona began channeling her energy towards songwriting.

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HOW ONE CENTRAL OREGONIAN CHOSE TO CHANNEL CREATIVITY DURING THE PANDEMIC ARTICLE GREGG MORRIS | PHOTOGRAPHY JULIA DUKE

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She wrote five new songs in about six months, taking cues from her passion for journaling, which she has done since college. Invigorated by her creative output, Worona set her sights on the goal of recording an album of original material called “Between The Lines.” The pop/folk title track details the correlation between keeping her current thoughts neatly confined within the lines of a new journal as opposed to the messy ideas filling her past journals without lines. Lyrics became: “I wrote to feel edgy, to shout, to feel small.

I wrote so I’d remember someday what it was like to chase boys, make progress and choices with lots of mistakes along the way.”

Once Worona announced her new project, friends and bandmates—Jim Goodwin, Stacie Lynn Johnson, Mike Biggers, Shireen Amini, Benji Nagel, and Kurt Silva—jumped at the chance to contribute to the album being recorded at Keith Banning’s Grange Recorders in Sisters. In addition, Biggers helped with her songwriting and Amini assisted with Worona’s Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign. Even her brother Will helped with the album cover. “I simply wanted to create beautiful music, share it with others, and hopefully spark some joy and happiness for those who connect with it,” explains Worona.

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SPRING FEVER IS UPON US, AND THIS YEAR THE FEELING IS MORE INTENSE THAN EVER. After a long winter of being their layers and exposing their skin to the natural elements. But not so fast! Yes, the sun does feel wonderful and warm, but precautions need to be taken to keep skin safe from its damaging effects.

“Tan skin is damaged skin,” says Dr. Gerald Peters (MD, FAAD, FACMS) of Peters Dermatology Center. “Our skin cells produce more pigment in response to UV (ultraviolet) radiation damage. In this day and age, most people are very conscious of the importance of minimizing their exposure to ‘radiation.’ Think of your best, healthiest skin color as the shade you were born with.”

Dr. Peters has been helping people protect and enhance their skin for more than 20 years, and now Peters Dermatology Center is located in a new state-of-theart facility in Bend. He says, “In addition to our four operatory suites for Mohs surgery, there are plenty of separate rooms

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SKIN SMART

indoors, Central Oregonians are shedding

The staff at Peters Dermatology Center, Dr. Gerald Peters sixth from right.

for procedures, exams, laser surgery and PDT (photodynamic ther-

“Ultraviolet protective clothing works wonders

apy). In designing a ventilation system to cope with our High Desert

and is much more cost effective than sun-

temperature extremes and dusty, pollen-polluted air, we fortunately

screen,” he says. “Look for comfort and style

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that you will enjoy; a long-sleeved shirt or long

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helpful in preventing sun damage, the most effec-

the clinic when your risk is low,” says Dr. Peters. “Conversely, if there

tive method is avoidance. “Of course, it’s impos-

is high risk, it’s helpful to figure that out as soon as possible, and

sible to completely avoid ALL sun exposure,

schedule appointments accordingly.”

especially for those of us who love the outdoors,”

In addition, “Monthly self-skin exams can be done at home as

says Dr. Peters. “So try to time your outdoor activ-

well in many cases; our focused training, during your clinic vis-

ities for early morning and late afternoon/evening

its, will make these more effective for you and your loved ones,”

hours; trails, golf courses and tennis courts are

according to Dr. Peters. He also adds that there is now convincing

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Oregon. “If you live here, even just for play, you have to be sturdy and sturdy at heart,” she says. Growing in the high desert means that what you plant and tend, Mother Nature may take away. Yet, the optimism offered by what grows has kept Sweet Posy farm looking forward to what blooms, especially after the pandemic. A large portion of the farm’s model are the weddings booked with bespoke blooms grown in its fields. When the wedding calendar was wiped out by COVID, Jen found ways to not only sustain the business but spread joy and use the flowers that she continued to reap. Sweet Posy’s unmanned Roadside Cart popped up, along with weekly flower subscriptions and accounts to wholesale flower studios.

Fortunately, as she planted bulbs (15,000 plus ranuculus alone) and cultivated seeds, it was with hope for the spring and future. On the floristry side of Jen’s business, weddings now fill the calendar, as

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host limited gatherings both in the evening with what they call “Sip and Clip,” as well as a lunchtime break to escape in nature and leave with a bright bunch of blooms. “We want people to have the experience and feeling of joy by being among the flowers.”

In May, it’s the ranunculus taking center stage. As Jen’s personal favorite of the Sweet Posy spring season that also includes anemones and Icelandic poppies, she loves ranunculus for the, “Flower power beauty of it, from the shapes of its blooms to the myriad of colors.” At the end of each day, a final walk among the flowers shows what her work in the fields coupled with Central Oregon sun have accomplished. It is a gift of natural beauty.

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