full on
The slightest movement, what might seem like a small decision one day, magnifies over time. Like an arrow whose direction is ever so slightly adjusted, the new path follows that course. Slight move, different outcome. Last was it August? September? I joined an online artist group run my Martin Stellar. He was launching the group. […]
red everywhere
This is the color that greeted me this morning. The photo is much dimmer than the reality. It was pinker/redder. And, I thought, “Red in the morning, sailors take warning.” Two days of rain ahead. Quick, get the garden ready. I needed some marigolds – to guard my tiny new tomatoes – but ended up […]
redbud … red bud?
This is the redbud tree that stands next to my house. I always thought it was misnamed. The buds did not look red to me. So, this year, I decided to focus in close to see if I could see the red in the bud. Do you? Just now I was sorting through this rather […]
objective to subjective
These are blueberry bushes growing along my shore. If you look closely, you might be able to see the white blooms. Right now, promise of fruit: objective truth. When and if the fruit comes – yum! – subjective enjoyment. I just returned from a wildly fun trip to DC for my daughter Ariella’s graduation (yay!) […]
red
All winter long I wait for color. Waiting and waiting. It’s what : mid-May? And here’s the reward. Those bulbs that sat in the ground for months and months. And months. How enticing! Look at that color! So what do I want? More red. More color. Even as I was adding color to my indoor […]
many things at once
A while ago I was reading a book that was describing one of the differences between men and women, or rather, one of the reasons for misperception. The author had been in discussion with each gender. On one hand, the men were perceiving the women as floaty and unfocused. On the other hand, the women […]
still moving
Above all, don’t try to write something you think you ought to write. ( Diana Wynn Jones) How can you not LOVE her for those words??? I can see how all any “good girl” training is completely counter productive to creating art. No. That’s history. Now it’s, what’s up? What’s going on inside that needs to come out? […]
early morning
I picked the tulips yesterday. In the early morning light, they were mirroring the colors in my art. Outside coming in, inside matching out. I was just reading (in David Hinton’s book, Hunger Mountain) about the Chinese graph for the word sincerity: it’s the image of a man right next the the image for words; i.e. […]
minutes in a day
I took this photo at 5 AM. Early. Quiet. I’ve been waking up at that hour in the past few days because it’s already light out. It feels like: time to get up. The days at this time of year are so much longer with the light coming early and lasting late. So where does […]
throwing out the baby
These plants are being discarded. NO! I DO NOT want them. Get out of my garden! There is a saying a friend of mine shared with me: ” If you throw the baby out with the bath water, don’t worry: the baby will always come crawling back”. Yesterday was one of those days when I […]
