pun intended

 Mums the word I’ve got balls I’ve been pieced togetherI’m tired These pix were taken on an overcast, blah day & taken within a few minutes of each other, not far from my neighborhood.  I’ve just started driving again & the feeling of freedom was so intense, I felt as though i were flying.  I had only…

art class drop cloth

i used this drop cloth for every art class i taught for five years. it was my intent to have someone stretch it & frame it- it is canvas, but to my unbelievable disappointment…my very bad cat peed on it while i was in the hospital for a few days. revenge, i guess. i was…

the story about how the spider caught a rainbow

not really a story. i made her (spider) mad. I took the water spritzer for my plants…& i washed her web for her. doesn’t it look grand? the droplets caught light & shattered it into a rainbow. i’m so lucky that she, my halloween spider decorator, decided to build her web above my front door….

Montpelier high school dried roses

during my bed rest (three darn months) I got a delivery of flowers & an amazing letter from my graduating class of 1988. The letter included blew my mind so much, that I didn’t want to lose the flowers. After a two days, i took the roses from the bouquet to dry them. I am…

he holds my flowers

i took my ridiculous, but necessary, walker outside to see my gardens. I’d been outside only one other time since June 24th & saw that without my attention, things went to crap. kinda like my hip bones. however, today was a small victory. I cut my own flowers, that means my bones have knitted themselves…

phones can capture moments

that mean the most. photographs can be art & they can be the best moments captured. unplanned moments that squeeze our hearts when viewed later. at the time, this was my every weekday life. a chore. carpool with my dogs in the back of my old SAAB. I would get my youngest first, then to…

can you paint bamboo & make a fence?

Bamboo is plentiful in Birmingham, Alabama. Can you believe that?! I lived in a house that was near unclaimed woods with all kinds of trees…and grass, like Bamboo. My children & i would wrestle dead bamboo out of the ground & drag it home (not drag, carry without effort, as it weighed nothing). I wanted…