It seems like forever ago that I started these two vineyard pieces for an exhibit. On Super Bowl Sunday I finally finished! The challenge I perceived to be the creation of two identical pieces of a vineyard, one in spring and the other in fall. Instead I had all sorts of design challenges not the least […]
seasonal
lesson revisited…
I love it when old lessons reappear…sort of a cosmic hopscotch. You think you’ve learned it and yet here you are repeating it. My current repeat lesson is I choose to not create work for exhibit based on someone else’s specifications. In other words I want to design what I want to design. If my […]
the leaf people…
I don’t think anything defines idiosyncratic behavior more than the annual ritual of the fallen leaves and what people do with them. It always gives me such a chuckle while driving this time of year to witness the quirky habits of the leaf people. I could have photographed the people but whoa that would take far […]
winter solstice…
Most of us know winter solstice to be in the deep darkness of December. While we barely notice it in North America I had the extreme delight to experience it in Sweden in 1999. Our family escaped to the hinterlands in an effort to avoid the Y2K mania here in the States. It was such […]
lazy hazy days of summer…
Time management is always an issue for me but less so now than when I first ‘retired’ 12 years ago. In the interim I have learned to smell more roses and catch up on more reading. That said the first five months of this year were pretty hectic and I knew that going in. Obligations […]
