What COLOR is Today?
Since Monday’s observation of the earths tilt from spring to summer, standing as we are in this thin place of neither one nor the other I began to take daily readings. I decided to take the pulse of this place
Betwixt and Between
Here we are again betwixt and between, neither here nor there, I’m talking about standing in the thin place between spring and summer. The capricious disposition of spring still prevails sending tufts of willow and dogwood floating in the afternoon
WWLD: What Would Lisa Do?
I set this Georgia O’Keeffee-sque challenge for myself this week because I thought it would be an easy one. I knew I had a crazy week ahead after a crazy week behind and since I’m running on empty I thought
Zooming In: painting like Georgia O’Keeffe
Last week I taught art at West Side school, a small elementary school just down the road from me. The blooming garden at the school stirred me to teach a lesson inspired by Georgia O’Keeffe’s flower series. I showed some
The Meaning of May: a study in two places
This week I was not blessed with another sighting of the Red-tailed Hawks that share this piece of earth with me at The Bishop’s Ranch. They’re there, I heard them call, but I never caught sight of them. The hawks
Flying high
This past week I witnessed a pair of red tail hawks circling above The Bishop’s Ranch two times in two days. Now hawk sightings and more often hawk hearings, are not uncommon here but two days in a row made
Getting a grip on bounty… and braiding it!
This week I set myself the challenge of reining in the vast expanse of drooping draping bulb tops in my yard. I will admit that part of my motive in setting this challenge on my blog was to kill two
When Exuberance turns to Chaos
When does exuberance turn to chaos? I am not speaking of the recent events in the Middle East, but let’s take a moment to think of the people struggling there (pause) and I’m not thinking of the recent tornadoes in