Christmas ornament art project

The bird that is mostly glittered with MOD PODGED wings & tail was the idea of the Mom who signed up for the class.  I thought her idea was brilliant & it ended up that I liked her idea more then my own.  She also painted inside the black lines because they couldn’t be drawn…

Blue dog in white snow

My dog Blue, running through the white winter snow, in pure puppy-dog JOY. His Heaven.

stitched & sewn together by we

what these children accomplished was art. The words accomplished wonder in this reader. I’m in the belief that hope is for children. That is why I try to be around the hopeful- to believe in the world they dream of. A simple world where common sense rules & fear crawls back under the rocks &…

my ten year old photographer

I stopped the car because I wanted to try & capture this extraordinary tree. I had my Nikon d90. Henry had my iPhone. I took about 8 images. Henry took two. I knew they would be high contrast & tried to figure out how to capture the tree in a way that would translate on…

a black eye among pastel

She couldn’t remember how she got her eye like this…after two days of begging for answers, she said she opened the cabinet mirror in her bathroom.  She said it hit her eye, but it didn’t hurt. Sophie is four in this photograph

core samples of Vermont granite

my grandparents worked at the quarry in Graniteville while raising my mother & her brother. My uncle works there now. Tis home.