My First Clay Sculpture
I’ve never tried anything like this before, and it took a long time to do in little bits over many months. Sometimes the clay hardened before…
Photos of Our Weeping Cherry Tree in Bloom
This tree was a house warming gift from my parents seventeen years ago. Each year when it blooms it is like a fairyland. My oldest daughter, looking out of her bedroom window, sees nothing but pink. Some years it lasts longer than it did this year, but it is always a delight. Enjoy the photos!
Spring Photos of New Pond Farm
Enjoy these photos of spring at New Pond Farm in Redding, CT just before the leaves burst. I love the vividness of the new, wet greens, against rich, fertile earth, the rushing of water, the old weeping cherry, the Canadian geese on their way north, the skunk cabbage, the sound of frogs, the practically fluorescent … Read more
Another Page Done in My Box-A-Day Art Journal
This page represents April 21, 2009 through May 2, 2009. The tulips, peach tree blossom and weeping cherry are all from my husband’s garden. See below for some close up photos. Enjoy!
Recipe: Sour Cream Coffee Cake
My husband’s Aunt Clara fed us this delicious coffee cake when we were in Texas for Easter. She got the recipe from the Amarillo Junior League Cookbook.
Today’s Poem: Garbage Removal
Garbage Removal I’m up praying at four in the morning. Misty, moist, cool air refreshes, wafting in on tendrils from the open window. The only sound I hear is the massive bang and clunk of a garbage truck with hulking mechanical biceps in grinding metal arms, picking up those hugely heavy commercial containers, dumping out … Read more
Why Socialism Doesn’t Work
I don’t often merely pass on email I get, but this came from my friend Linda and I found it very apt, particularly since my son thinks he wants to live in Sweden. (Mind you I’m no economist and I’m not attempting to discredit “progressive taxation”…) See the email forward below in blue… and my … Read more
Photos of Magnolias
Don’t you love magnolias? My aunt had a wonderful one we used to climb; year round they make good climbing trees but to climb them in bloom is to love them forever. Every year I photograph them. The fragrance is so subtle and delicious. The profile of each bloom is unique and slightly melancholy. And … Read more
I Bought a Box of Pastels!
This is a big deal for me! We really didn’t have this in the budget, and it is both a true indulgence and a show of commitment to this medium for us to over extend ourselves in this direction! The box came from Heilman Designs (see here) and will keep the pastels from crumbling … Read more
Movie Review: Little Dorrit
We enjoyed this production of Charles Dickens’ Little Dorrit immensely, watching it in series on Sunday evenings on PBS Masterpiece Theater. We give it five stars. Amy Dorrit, brought up her whole life in debtor’s prison, where she cared for her father who has been the longest inmate there, was played exceptionally well by … Read more
Photos of Forsythia
Forsythia is always such a delight to see. I think it was one of the first things my kids could identify out of the car window, since we always enjoyed spotting that luscious color after months of winter. That cadmium yellow can be almost intoxicating after one has been living among muted neutrals! Enjoy the … Read more
Photos of St John’s College, Annapolis
St. John’s College is the school my oldest daughter is interested in attending, that I mentioned in a previous post.
Today’s Photos of Annapolis
Today was a full day of walking and sightseeing. The first three photos were taken in Quiet Waters Park which is a wonderful place I will return to. I spent the early morning there. I wish I had my bike! Then I had a serendipitous thing happen as I was driving down Bay Ridge Drive … Read more
Book Review: The Warden
This is the first book I’ve ever read of Anthony Trollope. I liked it well enough to add it’s sequel, Barchester Towers to my reading list. I give it four stars. It took a while to get into it, and the warm-up and detailed description at points seemed quite drawn out, but the character development … Read more
Today’s Earth Day Poem By Me With Photos
On Earth Day Often we think of earth’s jaggedly impassable, impressive mountain precipices, or a raging volcano’s seething lava, surging mercilessly down hill, or the intensely glaring heat waves shrouding remote, windswept deserts, or hulking blue ice sheets crashing precipitously into chill Arctic oceans, or the devastating … Read more
Another Page Done in My Box-A-Day Art Journal
This page represents April 9, 2009 through April 20, 2009. See below for some close up photos. Enjoy!
Laura’s Water Lily and an Update From Our Pastel Class
Above is the first of two paintings my 12 year old daughter made in my adult pastel class. I love it and we will frame it for our upstairs hall. It looks particularly good from far away, and this way we’ll see it down the hall every time we come out of the upstairs bathroom. … Read more