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Tips of Spring The bare branches tacitly precise point gnarled fingers and wave lacy tendrils like brooms sweeping the sky like hair standing on end each strand preposterous and defined coy, but flirting capillaries. This spiky punk rock stage will pass the spring cleaning will finish the monochromatic veins and bony limbs will soon be … Read more
This page represents March 16 through March 27, 2009. See below for some close up photos. Enjoy!
This entry is a follow up to yesterdays’ entry on overfishing which you can read here if you missed it. What can be done about it? It turns out there are solutions to overfishing. There is hope if courageous action is taken soon. (All quotes are from The End of The Line by Charles Clover.) … Read more
My non-fiction reading in recent months has been consumed with reading about overfishing. I’ve been a vegetarian for over 25 years, prompted in large part because I read Diet for a Small Planet by Frances Moore Lappe and was moved to do my part for human sustainability. Over fifteen years ago I slowly started phasing in eating fish, needing more protein, and became a piscivore as well as a vegetarian. A couple years ago I was deeply influenced by Micheal Polon’s book The Omnivore’s Dilemma to try to eat more organic and local food; I was inspired to reduce my carbon imprint related to food and attempt not to pollute either the earth or my body. It has since become obvious to me that I didn’t really know where my fish was coming from, and whether that was sustainable either. Hence my recent self-education, which has been eye-opening as well.
I took these photos in two different spots. The tightly closed wet ones were taken this morning before a breakfast meeting with early sun after last night’s rain.
Here are some close-up photos of spring splashing forth. Gushing, gurgling, trickling, spewing, rippling, murmuring, sloshing, moving in March. Enjoy!
I have mostly been hand-building in pottery lately (see picture above of my pumpkin leaf), and it has been over a year since I have thrown on the wheel (with my most recent effort the vase seen below.) Anyway, since it has been so long, it was like starting all over again, and my teacher … Read more
I read this book because I had read another book titled The Beekeeper’s Apprentice a few years ago, also by Laurie R. King, and had really enjoyed it. I wanted to read something further by her, and this was the only other title by her in my local library. I enjoyed this book too, but … Read more
Yesterday in my blog there were close-up reflections of March here, so I thought it only fitting to offer today some reflections in context. These were taken in the same places as yesterday’s so you can give yourself the challenge, if you wish, of matching up locations with yesterday’s in depth photos. Enjoy!
I recently took these pictures of close-up reflections. View them as the abstract art that they are. Imagine any one of them wall sized in a contemporary art museum. Be amazed at the detail, nuance and layers depicted. Enjoy!
I read somewhere that effective abstract art should work from all directions. I had to move this around enough while working on it to get the arcs right that I have come to the conclusion that the rule holds true in this case at least. Look at the same painting rotated below; each has … Read more
I promise I won’t be doing this that often. I’m equally proud of all of my wonderful children. It has taken self control not to ramble on here about my son’s recent robotic successes or how great my oldest daughter was the other day as Lady Macbeth. The difference here is that while those accomplishments … Read more
I am my church’s representative to our local clergy association. We had our meeting yesterday and I wanted to share one of the things I learned there in case it may someday help someone. A woman woke up in the middle of the night and her husband was stone cold dead next to her. He … Read more
I enjoyed this book even though I’m only giving it three stars. It was a bit shallow but the setting was different enough to carry the reader through. In this book there are three estranged sisters who get together after the death of their father; my two sisters and I reacquainted ourselves with one another, … Read more
Our woods here are decked out in St. Patrick’s Day green. Check out these photos of March moss… Enjoy!
This page represents March 4 -15, 2009 in my Box-A-Day Art Journal. See some close-ups of entries below.
This is Me I’m a room’s golden glow paneled in luminous framed prints, refracting and shiny with a tossed, jauntily quilted pillow demanding attention. I’m the waxed wood floors, slightly gritty, a bright bouquet of yellow freesia beckoning buoyantly, and a tempting stack of books close by. I’m an empty rocking chair, inviting embrace a … Read more