February 2026 Sunriver Scene - Flipbook - Page 17
Last chance to catch High
Desert Museum exhibit
Played inside SHARC's Benham Hall, the pétanque teams agree to the score and prepare for the
next game, above, while Kim Orzell attempts to score using the new indoor boules, below right.
Pétanque heads indoors for the winter months
As winter approached, friends
at the Sunriver Pétanque Club
discovered great news, a remarkable innovation.
The official French pétanque
supplier OBUT has invented new
equipment specifically designed
for indoor play. The boules are
soft plastic rather than steel
yet weigh about the same. The
cochonnet is hexagonal to limit
rolling and plastic to protect
floors and woodwork.
The club has enough indoor
equipment to allow multiple
games at the same time. The
game is basically the same and the
SRWC
sunriverwomensclub.org.
President’s message
Sunriver Women’s Club activities continue all year, with
a variety of ways to meet other
members. Anyone is invited to
our happy hours and coffees to
find out more about the club.
Other member events include
luncheons with interesting
rules unchanged so perhaps the
biggest impact is having to leave
sunhats and sunglasses at home.
The combination of teamplay
and camaraderie with a dash of
competitiveness always makes for
a fun afternoon.
The Sunriver Pétanque Club
members play from 11 a.m. to 1
p.m. every Thursday in the Dillon Room at SHARC. Everyone
is invited to join in the fun.
New to pétanque? Winter is
a perfect time to learn the basic
Questions? Call Paul at
rules of the game. At the same
time, you will develop basic skills 503-201-5939 or email at
and, best of all, make new friends. paulhaus@gmail.com
speakers, winter activities, book
clubs, birthday gatherings and
social events. Engaging with
one another and the community makes Sunriver a very
special place. Check out the
website for details.
Plans are underway to create
a special Art Meets Wine in
Sunriver event on May 30 at
SHARC. The committee has
been diligently working to secure wineries, art pieces and live
auction items. It is open to the
In September 2020, the
Holiday Farm Fire, driven
by fierce east winds, burned
173,000 acres along the forested McKenzie River canyon
in the Cascades of Oregon.
Two months later, acclaimed
photographer David Paul Bayles and disturbance ecologist
Frederick J. Swanson began a
photography project to document the stark beauty of the
burned forest and its vibrant
response to fire.
An exhibit at the High Desert Museum features a special
collection of 35 photographs in
“Hollow and Still: Photographs
Following Fire by David Paul
Bayles.”
On display through Feb. 15,
this exhibition brings together
a series of images capturing
the visual beauty and rooted
strength of a forest that has
withstood more than two cen-
turies.
The photographs were taken
in the early days of the fire’s
aftermath, showcasing the
emotional impact as well as the
ecological ramifications.
Visitors to the Desertarium
Gallery will find black-andwhite images of burned tree
trunks and branches set against
stark gray backgrounds. Nearby, color macro images of
charred, burned-out branch
holes from one tree take up an
entire section of the exhibition.
“Imagine, at the most intense
moments of the fire, flames
leaping out from the upper
branch holes on all sides of
the tree,” Bayles said. “Five
years after the fire, the tree is
charred, dead and hollow, but
still standing.”
As visitors explore the deT E,
public and promises to be an
event not to be missed. Watch
for more information, with
tickets going on sale March 1
at www.artmeetswine.org. This
event generates funds for our
Community Grant program
that supports south Deschutes
County nonprofits and public
schools. I am so proud of the
difference we are making in the
community.
–Brigitte Bourret,
SRWC President
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