there is no such thing as Domestic Violence.

Did the title get your attention? I hope so, i hope it felt like a punch to the gut to women & men who have been abused. The title is to catch attention of mothers, daughters, sisters, friends…we all have women in our lives, but we don’t know what goes on behind closed doors, but…

teaching the artist to SEE…

this is my Monday, after school, art class…three 1st grade girls (my classes are no more then 3 children at a time, that i way, i get to create art with them)  i know these girls have been taught all day long, so i make my teaching very brief. At first, it is difficult to…

Blue dog in white snow

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

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….

putting his head in the wolf’s mouth

this photo is of ivy & me & blue.  blue raised ivy from a kitten. ivy loves to play into the dog’s fur, piled high after brushings. the photographs below are of hobbes & blue…they are brothers. the Saab pack. blue helped raise hobbes up from a kitten.  whenever they were outside together, hobbes would…

i found peace @ the farmer’s market

Saturday morning, Montpelier farmer’s market Montpelier, Vermont no matter the state in which you live (happy state?), your city must have a farmer’s market that supports your local farmers.  nothing better for your body, then local food, honey (i heard that honey made from our local bees will help with allergies, wouldn’t that bee cool…

this opening peony looks like a goose tush

shake those tail feathers. peonies remind me of childhood & my mother. my mother loved those peonies way back in the 1970s. i loved them because she did. i am 8 years old & sitting on cold, dark green grass, the taste of the blades so sweet at first, then tasting of old gum. doesn’t…