As I try and shake off winter, a quick trip to California was just the thing. On Saturday, March 8th, a show opening at the Partners’ Gallery in Mendocino featured my work and the work of Sacramento collage artist Lisa Culjis. Lisa (on the left) was invited by Partners member Miriam Davis, while I was […]
By this time, at the tail end of winter, the weather seems to govern the emotions more…sleepy or depressed on a rainy day and then along comes a sunny day and…elation. Today is such a day and I walked at the Riverfront Walking in the sunlight seemed amazing. When I got home I noted there […]
Greetings friends. I was somewhat dumbstruck this morning when I realized August was history. September hours begin tomorrow at the food cart, school starts next weeks for the grands, I bought a boiled wool sweater. Oh yes I did. I saw it coming. This summer was hot but it was the summer we finally got […]
We are living in a tragedy, all of us. It is of epic proportions, we are beginning to fully understand. As artists we try to bear witness to what is happening to us and around us. We know other artists and writers and musicians are doing the same and this gives us a certain resilient […]
Yesterday was kind of, well, let’s just say “underwhelming” and let it go at that. I did get an invitation for us to wander through a local garden, and it seemed miraculous on a sunny morning…our first time out in a month so excitement was high… we risked a drive-through coffee… and while out wandering […]
Spring is finally here…the tree peony is opening! Certainly the queen of this garden… Live in the moment we read everywhere…and the moments delight us, amaze us, amuse us and sadden us ..which I guess is the point? The moments ARE the life? In a strange way maybe that’s what blogging is about for me…grabbing […]
I actually do have a serious and informative post for later in the week, but I’ve been doing some summer things of late…it began with a seismic upgrade which meant cleaning the basement, this of a house we’ve lived in for 36 years…can you IMAGINE what a momentous photo this is?? …and artist Kathryn Cellerini […]
In Like a Lion today…hail, wind, pouring rain…but a happy day nonetheless. The first Tuesday of the month is quilt group and today we went out to Lynda’s where everything is about sewing…the flower bed… and the dog (“Buttons”)…everything…in a good way. Show and tell included Lynda’s new quilt made from a pattern called “Smitten” […]
I took a bunch of my art work over to Monmouth last week for Eric Olsen’s Edward’s Addition open house, and the next day R and I went to see how it came out. The house is very nice, all on one floor, and it was total fun to see my work looking rather nice […]
Aislinn and Tommy’s garden is beautiful this year. She got rid of the grass a few years ago and filled the yard with natives, nurse logs, stones…and slowly filling it up and out until this year it is really gorgeous… Down at our house the “hosta hospital” (R’s special project a few years ago to […]
On The Way 