Author: bonniehull

Along with just the love of the ephemeral and the anecdotal, the momentary gesture of these drawings grabs me.

Crochet as a way of visualizing hyperbolic space, the disappearance of these beautiful coral reefs–now 1/3 of them are dead (global warming), the facts about plastic and that 1/10th of the plastic produced annually ends up in the ocean. (There’s a “tsunamic tide zone” thing happening with the ocean currents which piles plastic up in […]

Iconic (One Flew over the Cuckoos nest), scary (inside the rooms are tiny but have very high–possibly 12 or 14 foot–ceilings, and feel like misery contained) and yet even so..even so..there’s something. One section of the building has been cared for and painted and next to it a section just let go and that was […]

Just riding around on our bikes Saturday looking at the grounds and the old J building got me musing on why states and cities and countries save certain things and not others. Why are so few decisions made from an aesthetic and common-sense base? Why let something beautiful rot when you have the resources to […]

Back from a weekend of quilting and talking and eating great food.  Sunshine, views of water and mountains, the company of good people and QUILTS.  The weekend began for me with Bru and a coffee (in my quest for the most beautiful coffee this one fell short–but it WAS good!) and a view of the […]

        My parents’ wedding day…Chicago,

with me staring at this blue and white blog, knowing it can be changed….hmmmmmmm. Today though I’m beginning to think about train rides through sunny landscapes and quilts and a few Seattle days. Today there was a comment on this blog by Doug, an encouraging and nice comment, but it went off as spam because […]

I’m looking at this thing which makes no sense to me whatsoever, but believing that soon the little computer fairy will land on my shoulder and point me in the right direction.  So far–nothing.