Water Texture
Photos from Hollywood, FL, Nov. 2013 (more to come):
Richard Bradshaw & Jim Henson
I’ve been reading Henson’s bio and studying Bradshaw’s silhouette puppetry.. So happy to find them together like this. I need to see this show in it’s entirety.
Castles Made Of Sand.. Errr.. Sea Sponges?
I didn’t bring my computer along on this trip so I’m limited to only posting cell phone photos until I can download my regular camera photos when I return home. Yesterday started out with a manatee sighting from the balcony of my room. I’m on the 30th floor and can see really far out over the ocean and saw two slowly moving silhouettes making their way south. I did not expect that. I also didn’t expect the weather to be warm enough to swim, but alas, it was! And the day was spent between the beach and the saltwater pool. So many neat seashells and sea sponges washed up on the shore. I’m not too old to play in the sand and collect shells, right? That’s the best part. Talk about intricate details in nature.
A Room With A View
Hello from Florida! I’m armed with my camera and my sketchbook.. Looking forward to finding some new inspiration here. FYI: my Etsy shop will remain open and all orders will ship out Nov. 29. Thanks to you folks who have already ordered! Til next time..
Kansas Fall 2013
Nov. 9, 2013, Oskaloosa, KS.
Random Things/ Inspirations/ New Toys
From one of my walks last weekend.
Current obsession: the medley on side B of The Beatles’ Abbey Road.
Good Things
The Wakarusa River, Nov. 10, 2013.
A great weekend was had. I’ve realized that I’ve allowed stress to overtake me more often than not this year. It has been my busiest year yet as far as my art career goes, with lots more traveling, more wholesale accounts, and more work overall. This is a great thing of course, but I suppose I have to figure out how to better harness it and balance it with home life which includes maintaining a home and home workspace, as well as being a present (single) parent. Nothing is easy – not matter what shape or size and we all carry our own loads, and I often repeat to myself, sometimes to no avail, “JUST DO IT”. It often seems like there’s little time for other things, but weekends like these make me realize I can combine them all (well, maybe not the work-work, but inspiration for new work is certainly to be found). Friends, family, cooking, hiking, nature, music, cleaning and organizing and simplifying. It was all there. Something as simple as swinging on a log tied with rope to a tree on a warm autumn day makes you forget all the worries and fears and pasts and futures. (It doesn’t help that I’ve been reading C.S. Lewis’s Space Trilogy which deals with the struggles of these very things). And I’m refreshed and smiling on a Monday morning. More pictures to come from my nature walks. Happy start to your week.
Monday, Monday Things
I drove home this morning to a great sunrise. November is proving to be a great month visually.
Thank you to all you folks who came to Crafts and Drafts on Saturday in Kansas City. It turned out to be a great show!!
Thank you, Cynthia, for the nice postcard. I found it in my mailbox this morning when I arrived back home. Totally made my day!!
This morning I went for a run on the river levee and crossed paths with a deer. I also saw a female red tailed hawk fly from a field with its furry breakfast dangling from its talons. It seemingly went into its nest as 3 crows followed behind cawing their beaks off. The male hawk then swooped in and chased them away and was duking it out in the sky with one as I ran on. Awesome!
Autumn Morning
Atchison, KS, Country Roads, November 3, 2013
“Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love — that makes life and nature harmonize. The birds are consulting about their migrations, the trees are putting on the hectic or the pallid hues of decay, and begin to strew the ground, that one’s very footsteps may not disturb the repose of earth and air, while they give us a scent that is a pefect anodyne to the restless spirit. Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.” ~George Eliot, letter to Miss Lewis, 1st October 1841
Happy November
Tonight’s sunset, Atchison, KS.
“Have you ever noticed a tree standing naked against the sky,
How beautiful it is?
All its branches are outlined, and in its nakedness
There is a poem, there is a song.
Every leaf is gone and it is waiting for the spring.
When the spring comes, it again fills the tree with
The music of many leaves,
Which in due season fall and are blown away.
And this is the way of life.”
– Krishnamurti