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It is evening. Dinner has been eaten, and the children are cleaning up, or so we hope, in the kitchen. The katydids fill the forest with their pulsing chatter. I’m listening to them, and to Eva Cassidy singing “Kathy’s Song.” I can’t decide which is more beautiful. I’ll take both.
Yesterday I picked peaches. I [...]
In eleven days, the esteemed Smoky Joe, handyman extraordinaire, will lumber up our driveway in his big two-tone truck. He will smoke a cigarette he rolled from Bugler tobacco, drink a stout cup of coffee, then begin tearing down the western wall of our house. There will be a huge mess in the house and yard.
I finished another piece Friday night—this time it’s of a trout lily. For your viewing pleasure:
Trout Lily Brings Spring
5 x 7″
pastel on board
Now if you don’t know trout lilies, let me introduce them to you. They are tiny little things, and they bloom very early—one of the
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July is a strange month. The heat rises quickly. Long, bright days filled with the whir of bugs bend time. The garden calls in the lush heat, and I answer, covered in soil and sweat in a matter of minutes. The laundry hung to dry gets washed again in a sudden [...]
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Our Christmas cheer was thwarted to some extent by a vicious stomach bug making the rounds through our family. But it seems to have run its course, thankfully, and so I now have a spare moment to post this year’s Christmas card. I hope your Christmas was filled with joy!
It has been snowing all day, [...]
In my calendar, which is rooted in the old Pagan wheel of the year and informed by ancient Chinese medicine & philosophy, Autumn is at hand. I could sense the transition days ago, as the light tilted golden in the late afternoon under clouds that had given rain on and off all day. [...]
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