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Community Shellfish from Maine (with Video Seafood Recipes)
By Polly Castor on March 25, 2023Read moreBob is a videographer who has videoed some great seafood recipes. They are available online, and I wanted to...
70Steel Crow Saga (Book Review)
By Polly Castor on March 24, 2023Read moreThe book particularly follows four different characters, each from a different affected country in an imagined post colonial world,...
Teaching Abstraction to Manchester Arts (Photos and Student Work)
By Polly Castor on March 23, 2023Read moreCrocus! (a Sketch and Photos from our Yard)
By Polly Castor on March 22, 2023Read moreThese crocus are always so robust and so very welcome.
Ilwha Kim (Featured Artist)
By Polly Castor on March 21, 2023Read moreSouth Korean artist Ilhwa Kim makes fabulous, undulating, sculptural works of art out of thousands of handmade paper 'seeds.'
Baked Lemon Pudding (Recipe we made with our Homegrown Lemon)
By Polly Castor on March 20, 2023Read moreThis is light and neither overly sweet nor overly sour.
The Purpose of Art (quote by Walter Percy)
By Polly Castor on March 18, 2023Read moreWe stir up a shock of recognition of what they already know...
The Violin Conspiracy (Book Review)
By Polly Castor on March 17, 2023Read moreI highly recommend this interesting, unique read; it is so satisfying to watch the unfolding success of someone overcoming...
Two Smaller Pastel Paintings
By Polly Castor on March 16, 2023Read moreA lot of my pastel paintings are both larger and more complicated than these.
Polly Answers Your Questions (#1)
By Polly Castor on March 15, 2023Read moreDo you also have questions for me?
Flowers in our House (Photos)
By Polly Castor on March 14, 2023Read moreAs we await spring it is good to be surrounded by "floral apostles."