Winter Sunrise From My Window in Calgary
Sometime ‘life’ is dominating my thoughts and work. Sometimes these little windows into my world don’t fit neatly anywhere else so they get listed under ‘This and That!’ Sometimes an issue requires a rant. Or I just feel like sharing something that is important or has touched me in someway.
I’m in search for the name for a species of lichen found and photographed in the Ancient Forest, an inland wet belt rain forest found in northern BC. along the Yellowhead Highway (Hwy 16). More information about this site can be found at http://wetbelt.unbc.ca/Inland-Rainforests.htm It is the subject of my current art piece and I would like to know more about it. A friend has comment that it is one of the many umbilicate lichens – I’m learning new terminology! I’ve found the following info that seems to...
read moreToday was a retreat day – a day of doing things that really don’t require a lot of thought. My sister arrived on January 8 and my routines immediately went for naught! Blog time, journal time, ‘me’ time disappeared into a daily round of trying to find new things to do in very cold and often stormy weather. We did manage a trip to Lake Louise for lunch on the only sunny day! She has now returned home, so life is gradually moving back to ‘normal’. Today I re-entered my ‘studio’ – my...
read moreIt looks like weekend blogs may be hit or miss! Especially when it is granddaughter visit time! This weekend was especially busy as I am preparing for the arrival of my sister and that means moving my dining table ‘office’ to ‘neater’ locations, clearing my ‘studio’ so that it can be a studio and not just a storeroom, and generally putting Christmas behind me. Since New Year’s, I’ve given priority to dealing with the ‘must do’ procrastination list and getting some order back into...
read moreHappy New Year everyone! I was going to wait until tomorrow to do a post but thought better of it. I need to put down a marker – a marker for a new beginning, a new direction, a new focus. It’s been a pleasant start to the New Year. A leisurely breakfast, some work on a major fiber art piece neglected for a couple of years because it is too large for my work area in the RV, preparation for some journal work this year, topped off with a swim with my granddaughter and dinner when her parents arrived this evening. Throughout the...
read moreLast fall I started to work on what I am calling my ‘Re’ series. You may ask, what is my ‘Re’ series. I’ve always been fascinated with trying to use things that might other wise be discarded and of course that opens the door to using processes that ‘Recycle, Reuse, Repurpose, Reclaim, Reprocess, Restore, Rescue, Relove, Recondition, Remodel, Regenerate’. Of course if you are not a purist you could add words like ‘Salvage, Upcycle, Convert …’. The first of my babies left the nest...
read moreI want to wish everyone a happy and productive 2012. I’ve been quickly scanning the blogs of a number of on-line friends and I am amazed at how ambitious everyone seems to be. I continue to struggle to find blocks of time to focus intensely on my art and have to keep reminding myself of what a wonderful gift my travel experiences are. That said, I have decided that this year I’m going to choose a word to remind myself to find the time to DO something creative every chance I get and to not get discouraged. I’ve had many...
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