Color Me Excited!
I am excited to share my latest adventure - a coloring book! I am inching on to my 20th year living at The Bishop's Ranch, in that time I have had the great privilege to soak up the seasons and
Spring: living forwards and backwards
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” ― Søren Kierkegaard I came across this quote a while ago and stuck it in my “food for thought folder”. Something about it rings so true. When we sit in
Spring is Tugging and My Heart Wants to Follow
Well, spring in Sonoma County comes early and while we are in a terrible drought here at the moment it is raining and blustery which is as it should be. The clouds and sun are in a battle and the
Singing at the Threshold
I took a walk this morning with my dog Lucky. My goal was to exercise the dog and myself and get on with my day, but as I powered through the antique apple orchard here on the back property the
Stop and Smell the Daffodils
Spring has officially sprung, Happy Vernal Equinox to you all (a few days late). While the daffodils have been blooming here in Northern California for a month or so it doesn’t really feel like spring until the time change gives
Singing Us Home
I bought tulip bulbs a little late, lured by the bright colored box on a dreary, rainy day wandering through the hardware store. I planted them with hope in my heart that they would be as bright and cheery as
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
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
Be the Tulip!
This week, as you can see is a bit of a departure from my usual art response. But in keeping with my blog’s challenge to mix things up and share new things, I have done some sewing this week. To