A few years ago 5 artists friends and I got together for Projects 40. This link below will talk you to my results. We all followed a set list if 40 ideas/assignments. 5 all-day-long days creating these 40 explorations pushed me out of my comfort zone and into a invigorating creative bliss ~ my own rules were to use unfamiliar materials and unfamiliar techniques. Sometimes frustrating, sometimes suspiciously easy but in the end … very worth while.
All these maple wings were standing upright in the grass beneath a maple tree. Just seeing them as they were was visually splendid enough, but I could imagine a lovely geometric mandala here. I made this on top of a low stone wall. I don’t think anyone will see it but no matter, it’s there.
Just kidding….. They are slabs of rock. I wandered into a warehouse full of hundreds of beautiful large slabs of all different kinds of rocks. They all were unique or amazing. I was struck by how they looked so much like satellite images of the earth.
I left a rag which I had been using to wipe off the lawn mower on the wood pile. I left it for a few days, you know how it rolls…… I’ll get that later, later…..
Well I did get to it later only to find that it was now occupied. Someone had moved in AND started a family! Yes this tiny spider was squatting on this rag.
So now I have a dilemma… I need to move the rag, I’d like to wash this rag and I am totally taken with how territorial this little creature lets me know that She is busy here. She stands guard hovering right over her tiny white disk of a nest of her eggs like she is guarding it with her life. She has nestled deep inside one of the folds of the rag, she’s not moving. She adjusts her position when ever I peek into her home but stays right on top of her nest.
I will find a quiet protected place to move her to, a place protected from the coming rain and wind. I’ll leave it just so so she and her new little spiders, when they hatch, can easily venture out into the world.
The laundry can certainly wait for this little miracle.
28 Porcelain Elephants soon to be walking around in a shiny bright coat
And many Deluxe Owl and Home Talking Pins in the making!
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Why is it that we think of mostly water when we think of waves?
One doesn’t often find this rare siting of a Rock Nest
Who doesn’t love to stroll along the share and collect little things that catch your eye? Well, today, all I could focus on was plastic stuff caught in a tide line of seaweed and shells, that has washed up on shore. Not too bad, but there it is.
Not that this state of affairs makes me smile, but one needs to keep ones chin up.
I am in New Hampshire visiting my mum and it is sunny and warm and so full of familiar fragrances. I am loving the short walk to her place from my hotel, but today as I drove there this morning, I stopped the car to see a huge snapping turtle in the middle if the road. After I had stopped, several cars also stopped to see what was going on. Quite the commotion on a quiet country back road! I got out if the car and tried to gently nudge the turtle’s shell, which upon noticing the spikes on its tail, wondered if it might be a Snapping turtle…. with my foot so it would carry on across the road but it didn’t like that and puffed up ready to defend itself. I figured I could out run it if it turned on me (but maybe that was rabbit- thinking ) Finally one brave soul got out of his car, gingerly picked it up with both hands keeping on its back side and brought it to the other side of the road where it seemed to be headed. He (the guy) never said a word, pure new England stoicism…. Right then and there. You gotta love it. It was a snapping turtle and now is likely lolling around terrorizing its neighbors in the nearby pond. And now I can feel a new joke coming on ….
From spiky tail to nose it’s about 1 1/2 feet Huge guy!
Aside from listening to the evening peepers sing their heart out, these wonderful simple little may flowers totally delight me
Cat Prints are not that common to see.
Walking around Bellevue,WA I See while trying not to get run over …. but what wouldn’t I do for an interesting bit if street functional art ~
Sometime I’m just speechless
This moth flew in 2 nights ago when I was closing the screen door (yes, it was so sunny and warm I had the door open wide all day). I turned off all the lights in the house and turned on the porch light to guide this beautiful moth back outside. I couldn’t find it the next day so I thought I was successful.
But this morning I was getting ready for the day and who had settled nicely for a nap among my rings, this beautiful moth. A como green moth. And if this moth was on a tree branch covered in green lichen it would be completely invisible and safe to live another day. It has perfect blending skills.
I will think about that.
Oh Vancouver!
at first sight, I though someone quite large got eaten in the night …. the choke
but a little investigation revealed ….
another astonishing act of nature
an Artichoke, who weathered the winter
~ it’s the trees ~
the sky is a breath taking midnight blue
and it’s only 4:30 pm
I’m on my way home after a long winter’s walk in the rain
a tree branch
and someone had combed their dog (golden retriever?) and left the hair fuzz scattered all around, I like to think for the birds and squirrel nests ..
I just tidied up
any way you can
1st day
next day ~ people shuffled by …. creating a new symbol
3rd day, I wrote it again
tire track melted into a thick white stop line on the road on a hot summer day
snow track
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Thank you All for taking a look-see here
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