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Photos of our Apricot Blossoms
By Polly Castor on April 7, 2010Read moreHere are photos of our blooming apricot tree… It is 95 degrees here today so spring will come on...
00A Pear on Four Different Papers
By Polly Castor on April 6, 2010Read moreI did an exercise of a watercolor pear on four different papers. The pear and the palette were...
Eighteenth Page Done in My New Box-A-Day Art Journal
By Polly Castor on April 5, 2010Read moreThis page represents March 23, 2010 to April 3, 2010. See close-ups of recent entries below. Enjoy!
Poem: Easter Morning
By Polly Castor on April 4, 2010Read moreEaster Morning Hungry bears awakening from hibernation Glorious spring blooms arousing from shriveled dormancy Beautiful butterflies emerging from...
Photos of Secular Easter
By Polly Castor on April 3, 2010Read moreWe had a good time dying Easter eggs and frosting egg-shaped sugar cookies today. It was balmy and lovely...
My Good Friday Sermon
By Polly Castor on April 2, 2010Read moreI am my church’s delegate to our town’s ecumenical Clergy Association. Among many other things this means I’m one...
Recipe: Sea Scallops on a Bed of Leeks
By Polly Castor on April 1, 2010Read moreThis is no April Fools! Here is one of our favorite “company dinners” that a couple years ago we...
Photos of Way More Flooding
By Polly Castor on March 31, 2010Read moreA couple weeks ago we had five inches of rain with lots of flooding, trees down, and power outages....
Playing with Yupo
By Polly Castor on March 30, 2010Read moreHere are my first results playing with Yupo, a polypropylene synthetic tree-free paper (see here). On the one hand...
A God I Can Believe In
By Polly Castor on March 29, 2010Read moreI’m thinking of this because of talking with a teen recently who shuns believing in God. God simply doesn’t...
Photos of Early Daffodils
By Polly Castor on March 28, 2010Read moreAlso intrepid in pushing up their way through the leaf litter to bask in the sun are these early...
Movie Re-view: Out of Africa
By Polly Castor on March 27, 2010Read moreMy husband is out of town with my children for four days at my fifteen year old son’s regional...