Nice weather today. Grandchildren are fun to take to see things as this aquarium photo shows. Tonight, we've been listening to Verdi's Requiem, which always reminds me how my brother went out before Dad's funeral and came back with CDs of several requiems which he played while we were planning the services. The Verdi was especially beautiful.
Tuesday, August 22, 2006
Monday, August 21, 2006
Run for your life
Sometimes we feel like this! Art by granddaughter M.
Tonight we had our monthly poetry meeting. It is great to have a group like this to talk about writing with! It also means you work on your poems to get ready; it's a goof motivator.
Things are slowly coming together around here as we get ready to travel. I'm hoping to get Internet access along the way, so my readers, wherever you are, will know about the weather in the Dakotas. Good night.
Tonight we had our monthly poetry meeting. It is great to have a group like this to talk about writing with! It also means you work on your poems to get ready; it's a goof motivator.
Things are slowly coming together around here as we get ready to travel. I'm hoping to get Internet access along the way, so my readers, wherever you are, will know about the weather in the Dakotas. Good night.
Her delicate grace
She came from Indonesia. If I had seen one like her in Bali, I would have wanted to buy her and carry her home.
It's been a busy week. Every day I empty out a few shelves in the kitchen. I have found a crystal dish that was a wedding present 51 years ago and many other forgotten wonders.
Tonight we put together the anthology of haiku poems our Yuki Teikei Haiku Society publishes every year. We designed a black and white cover with purple end pages stamped with a copper spiral inside the front. It's very handsome. So that was fun.
I guess we will get to make our trip after all; we plan to leave on Saturday. It's after midnight and very quiet, a nice quiet, surprisingly, softly quiet.
It's been a busy week. Every day I empty out a few shelves in the kitchen. I have found a crystal dish that was a wedding present 51 years ago and many other forgotten wonders.
Tonight we put together the anthology of haiku poems our Yuki Teikei Haiku Society publishes every year. We designed a black and white cover with purple end pages stamped with a copper spiral inside the front. It's very handsome. So that was fun.
I guess we will get to make our trip after all; we plan to leave on Saturday. It's after midnight and very quiet, a nice quiet, surprisingly, softly quiet.
Tuesday, August 15, 2006
The red suspenders
In the badlands, a man and his new dog, Wolfram, look out over the palest sunbaked earth formations. I love the contrast in this picture. My brother sells these red suspenders, which have Shakespeare on them, at the Cedar City Shakespeare festival. I chose a red pair for my husband. Now he has three more of these little dogs. Barkers.
Monday, August 14, 2006
Brine shrimp
Colors of San Francisco Bay, seen from the air. It's been a quiet Sunday, with a long phone call from my daughter. On Book TV, an enthusiastic historian talking about Benedict Arnold's navy and the Battle of Ticonderoga. He is showing slides and pointing out the errors in the history paintings. He's quite funny. A bearded bear-like guy. I often wonder if I could have been precise and disciplined enough to study and write about history. I don't think I am still deciding what to do when I grow up, but maybe so.
Sunday, August 13, 2006
Strawberry square
A fellow stands out on the corner as we turn off the expressway and sells flats of these. Inside are berry baskets, with a layer of these larger and more beautiful streawberries on the top. I needed a wife to hold a gold reflector while I took this. In a book I was looking at today, a photographer gave his wife credit for her reflector-holding on a particular photograph. I have enjoyed these berries very much, but have to admit they are not the sweetest strawberries I have ever had even though some of the most beautiful.
Today I entered books on Librarything up to 1004, so I've passed a big milestone. If I finish the job, I'm estimating the total at about 4000 including the books I keep in Michigan. I need to downsize, but have a very strong attachment to many of them. What to do? Nothing sensible, I suppose.
Today I entered books on Librarything up to 1004, so I've passed a big milestone. If I finish the job, I'm estimating the total at about 4000 including the books I keep in Michigan. I need to downsize, but have a very strong attachment to many of them. What to do? Nothing sensible, I suppose.
Saturday, August 12, 2006
The lion sleeps tonight
Ah, weem o weh . . . I have no idea how they spelled that.
I've been playing with today's sun on hydrangea leaves. And that took me to the quiet jungle, where the lion sleeps.
Tonight we initiated the new press in the new Studio with a few monotypes. It's a beautiful press, a Whelan. Smooth and easy to print with. I'll be spending a lot of time there. I have to think about what I would like to work on and whether I want to print on whole or half sheets or continue to work on some of the partly finished monotypes I have left from the classes. I know I want to do some chine colle and work with Japanese papers. I'd also like to print some more copies of the small plates I made in the etching class. The weather is getting a little too warm again. How are you? I am fine. . .
I've been playing with today's sun on hydrangea leaves. And that took me to the quiet jungle, where the lion sleeps.
Tonight we initiated the new press in the new Studio with a few monotypes. It's a beautiful press, a Whelan. Smooth and easy to print with. I'll be spending a lot of time there. I have to think about what I would like to work on and whether I want to print on whole or half sheets or continue to work on some of the partly finished monotypes I have left from the classes. I know I want to do some chine colle and work with Japanese papers. I'd also like to print some more copies of the small plates I made in the etching class. The weather is getting a little too warm again. How are you? I am fine. . .
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