redbud … red bud?
This is the redbud tree that stands next to my house. I always thought it was misnamed. The buds did not look red to me. So, this year, I decided to focus in close to see if I could see the red in the bud. Do you? Just now I was sorting through this rather […]
objective to subjective
These are blueberry bushes growing along my shore. If you look closely, you might be able to see the white blooms. Right now, promise of fruit: objective truth. When and if the fruit comes – yum! – subjective enjoyment. I just returned from a wildly fun trip to DC for my daughter Ariella’s graduation (yay!) […]
many things at once
A while ago I was reading a book that was describing one of the differences between men and women, or rather, one of the reasons for misperception. The author had been in discussion with each gender. On one hand, the men were perceiving the women as floaty and unfocused. On the other hand, the women […]
red
All winter long I wait for color. Waiting and waiting. It’s what : mid-May? And here’s the reward. Those bulbs that sat in the ground for months and months. And months. How enticing! Look at that color! So what do I want? More red. More color. Even as I was adding color to my indoor […]
still moving
Above all, don’t try to write something you think you ought to write. ( Diana Wynn Jones) How can you not LOVE her for those words??? I can see how all any “good girl” training is completely counter productive to creating art. No. That’s history. Now it’s, what’s up? What’s going on inside that needs to come out? […]
minutes in a day
I took this photo at 5 AM. Early. Quiet. I’ve been waking up at that hour in the past few days because it’s already light out. It feels like: time to get up. The days at this time of year are so much longer with the light coming early and lasting late. So where does […]
early morning
I picked the tulips yesterday. In the early morning light, they were mirroring the colors in my art. Outside coming in, inside matching out. I was just reading (in David Hinton’s book, Hunger Mountain) about the Chinese graph for the word sincerity: it’s the image of a man right next the the image for words; i.e. […]
throwing out the baby
These plants are being discarded. NO! I DO NOT want them. Get out of my garden! There is a saying a friend of mine shared with me: ” If you throw the baby out with the bath water, don’t worry: the baby will always come crawling back”. Yesterday was one of those days when I […]
spirals
What I see outside and what I’m doing inside… I look at water, day in and day out. And years ago when I used to spend long hours, day after day, sailing boats, I also would look at water. One of my favorite places was to lie on the bow of the boat and look […]
pay attention to your focus
I mean, really, what secrets are these ferns sharing??? So quiet… Yesterday, the topic of where you focus came up in my online art group. AND sure enough… there it was in the book I’m reading this morning. It’s so àpropos and so over the top, I can’t resist sharing. It’s from Diana Wynn Jones’s […]
