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the crossroads of art and lifeA List. An Award.
Many thanks to Pearly Queen Notebook for bestowing me with the One Lovely Blog Award. I am long overdue in thanking her and passing on the goodwill to so many other deserving artists and writers. Pearly Queen makes new jewelry from old. I have huge respect for this....
Deborah Bowness
Cattywumpus is a good word. I don't know how it is spelled. It's the word that came to mind when I rounded the bend near the dressing rooms at Liberty of London back in September. There I came face to face with one of Deborah Bowness' dress images. It was...
Planting Garlic Before the Sun Goes Down
My husband came through the door about 30 minutes earlier than usual this evening. "Quick!" he said, "Let's plant the garlic before the sun goes down." I was fiddling with an image in Photoshop and the glow of my computer screen temporarily blinded me. Hadn't...
Stage Plays, a Blanket of Autumn Leaves
An autumn bed of leaves under our maple tree reminds me of a performance of Midsummer Night's Dream that I saw in Stratford, England, when I was 19. It was the later 1980s. Life was my oyster. Before the woodland scenes the stage crew rolled out a carpet of jumbled...
Columbia Road, London, First Stop Cake Hole
Several weeks ago I arrived in London after the red eye from Boston. It was a Sunday morning, but noontime by the time I'd settled in my hotel. The bed was calling me, but not as strongly as the Sunday-only markets of London. I set out for Columbia Road and its...
Irish Weather on the Wethers
Meet Azalea. She joined our little flock yesterday which brings us back to four sheep after the loss of Oscar in August. She is a Navajo Churro breed. Our others are Dorset crosses. Today got me thinking of our first serious discussion about raising lambs. We...
The New Day, According to Ralph
“Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson I came across this little wise nugget via my childhood Kristen this morning. Sometimes the right words just drop in...
Listen! {in memory of summer evenings}
"Listen! The wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves, We have had our summer evenings, now for October eves!” Humbert Wolfe Autumn has only arrived, in accordance with the calendar. Though leaves have been falling and the air is chill each morning for a few...
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