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Photos of Unusual Whitewater on Swollen Local Streams
By Polly Castor on March 14, 2010Read moreAfter around five inches of rain yesterday, 78,000 people in Connecticut are still without power, with many more than...
00Book Review: Celebrate Your Creative Self
By Polly Castor on March 13, 2010Read moreI really like this book a lot and give it a hearty five stars. It is wonderful to jump-start...
Two of my Paintings
By Polly Castor on March 12, 2010Read moreThese two paintings I did a while ago. I wanted to share them because they were done with...
Sixteenth Page Done in My New Box-A-Day Art Journal
By Polly Castor on March 11, 2010Read moreThis page represents February 27, 2010 to March 10, 2010. See close-ups of recent entries below. Enjoy!
More Bovine Bliss
By Polly Castor on March 10, 2010Read moreWhen a previous post featured bovine bliss (see here) I didn’t imagine it as the first of a series....
Today’s Ocean Sunset Painting
By Polly Castor on March 9, 2010Read moreToday I worked on layering “graded washes” of watercolor to create a luminous effect. This single painting took several...
Movie Review: Runaway Bride
By Polly Castor on March 8, 2010Read moreMy oldest daughter is home from college for spring break. We enjoyed Runaway Bride... a thoroughly decent film which...
Winter Photos of New Pond Farm
By Polly Castor on March 7, 2010Read moreWith temperatures in the fifties yesterday and today, we are thinking spring with good reason! As the weather here...
Book Review: The Elegance of the Hedgehog
By Polly Castor on March 6, 2010Read moreThis is a wonderful book; it is the best novel I’ve read in quite a while. I give it...
New Poem by me: Life Goes On
By Polly Castor on March 5, 2010Read moreLife Goes On Death means never more: so definitive and final. In argumentation I’ve learned to avoid saying always...
My New Watercolor Abstract Landscape Series
By Polly Castor on March 4, 2010Read moreI painted this abstract landscape series in watercolors this week. I had fun exploring options within self-imposed limited constraints....
I’ve Started Making Homemade Bread!
By Polly Castor on March 3, 2010Read moreFor Christmas I got two bread making books from my husband and a bread baking stone from my sister....