You are Your Own Anemone: Flower Portrait No. 32
The purple Anemone I planted in the garden last week recovered from the recent torrential downpours that we were blessed to receive. The rain drenched and delicate petals reflecting the afternoon...
View ArticleOh My Meyer! Flower Portrait No. 33
Delicate clusters of aromatic blooms on the back yard garden’s Meyer Lemon tree. Life may give you lemons, but what you do with the zest from the lesson is what dictates the outcome. Staying positive...
View ArticleDisconnect to Reconnect: A Visit to Mount Lassen
I took a trip to Lassen County three weeks ago at the invitation of a friend to get away from the Sacramento heat for 6 days, help with some cabin chores, and free myself from the distractions that...
View ArticleMy Plum Gig: Harvesting Nature’s Candy
The Plum tree in the back yard has been steadily ripening for the last two weeks, yielding enough fruit to, so far, make two batches of sauce and three small jars of preserves. Today’s harvest will be...
View ArticleRedeeming the Discarded
44″ x 54″ Tempura paint on cardboard. We found the untitled work in the garage when we bought this house. Wrapped in black plastic, it leaned against a wall with other leftover materials and...
View ArticleA Return to Lassen County
Smoke veils the late afternoon view of Reading Peak and Mount Lassen on September 2, 2020. The invitation to spend eight days at a dear friend’s cabin near Lassen Volcanic National Park could not have...
View ArticleA Light at the Tunnel’s End
The historic Donner Pass Train Tunnel Trail in Norden California, September 2020. In the 90 plus days since my last post, much has happened in our world, and to each other. A seemingly unending global...
View ArticleScenes from Dreams: Preludes to Reality
In my quest to understand why I continue to resist the calling to create original works of art in service to others, I discovered Steven Pressfield‘s books the War of Art and The Artists’s Journey:...
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