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The Season’s Last Zinnias
By Polly Castor on October 5, 2011Read moreIt took my daughter three hours this morning to pick the last of the New Pond Farm zinnias…...
00Book Review: Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand
By Polly Castor on October 4, 2011Read moreI really enjoyed this book and stayed up late last night finishing it. It is about two widowers who...
Current Guild Art Show
By Polly Castor on October 3, 2011Read moreHere are some images from the current Ridgefield Guild of Art Juried Show. I have never submitted to this...
Recent Black & White Photographs
By Polly Castor on October 2, 2011Read moreI’ve been experimenting with black & white photography lately, fascinated by the range of values and the effects of...
My New Oil Painting: Nut and Geb
By Polly Castor on October 1, 2011Read moreAt Creative Arts Camp this fall, when I learned more about underpainting, I remembered a painting I had done...
Quote from Recent Harvard Business Review
By Polly Castor on September 30, 2011Read moreI found this quote by Umair Haique in the Harvard Business Review blog encouraging: “If America wants to create...
New Poem by me: Bonding and Balance
By Polly Castor on September 29, 2011Read moreBonding and Balance While I advocate being a noble gas with outer atomic shells initially complete, most elements do...
Thoughts on the Tower of Babel
By Polly Castor on September 28, 2011Read moreI have studied the story of the tower of Babel before. To me it is a lesson about...
Wholesome Morning Glory Muffins
By Polly Castor on September 27, 2011Read moreNeed a muffin recipe that is so delicious that you’ll want it over and over again, but one...
Resistance and Oil
By Polly Castor on September 26, 2011Read moreI am so grateful to have been to Creative Arts Camp this year! It was just what I needed...
Creative Arts Camp 2011: Paintings by Others
By Polly Castor on September 25, 2011Read moreHere is some work by my fellow painters…
Creative Arts Camp 2011: Painting #6: What Will the Harvest Be?
By Polly Castor on September 24, 2011Read moreThis is the last (and I think the best) painting I did at camp. There is a...