The Earth is Full of Soul (Quote by John O’Donohue with Photos)
Place is not simply location. A place is a profound individuality…
Polly Castor
Polly Castor Art 2023 Calendar Available (Order Soon!)
Polly Castor Art Calendars for 2023 are available for a short time. They make great gifts, and are good quality, 12’x12″ in size, opening to 12″x24,” with plenty of room to write within the date boxes.
What We Emphasize Determines our Lives (Howard Zinn quote)
Live now as we think human beings should live…
Fennel Apple Salad with Walnuts (Recipe)
This salad is delicious, crunchy, unusual, and welcome. Make it with the tender fennel from your farmer’s market.
This Tender Land (Book Review)
This is excellent fiction that will make you grateful for the home you have.
Trees in Crayon and Marker (Grid Journaling #2)
This feels more like painting than drawing, but is a no fuss, no mess approach you can take or do anywhere.
I am Woman Hear Me Roar (New Large Abstract Painting in Pastel)
I kept thinking of that Helen Reddy song from back in 1971,”I am Woman Hear Me Roar in Numbers to Big to Ignore,” and my prayer is that will happen today!
Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Seven Life Principles
All that you need for growth and guidance in life is already present inside you.
I am not the Source
It brings immediate relief from a whole menu of concerns, and frees me to have a brilliant day, joyfully dancing my intuitive part of the irrepressible whole.
To Be of Use (Poem by Marge Piercy)
The thing worth doing well done has a shape that satisfies, clean and evident.
Easy Cauliflower and Leek Gratin (Recipe)
This recipe is perfect. It is delicious, comforting, and super simple. It takes time to cook, but is quick to put together otherwise.
Wingbeat (New Abstract Painting in Mixed Media)
The dominion and power that is in the wingbeat, the freedom and soaring intensity of it, the high contrast of the scaling of heights from the lowly depths, despite all obstacles, encapsulates this piece.
Perfection of the Universe (poem by Danna Faulds)
…like the scent of fallen leaves, the heady fragrance of trees returning what was never theirs to keep.
Hike Photos from Huntington State Park (October 2022)
Hear the crunch and swish of fallen leaves underfoot, and the lapping of the water. Inhale deeply that fabulous scent of leaf decay heightened in the crisping air. Look up into the dappled, dramatic canopy. It all is quite exalting.
Happy Halloween! (Pumpkin Photos)
Enjoy these beauties– their shapes, their expressive natures, the different varieties, colors, textures and stems, as well as how they contribute to a wholistic composition within the frame of a photograph.