Spontaneous delight

Spent some quality family time the past few days. Downtown, eating nutella & coconut crepes on a park bench, people watching yesterday evening. The day before we were there running errands, and ended by ordering iced chocolates from the local chocolatier shop, and then stopping to watch a motley group of b-boys (break dancers) put [...]

Here goes…something

Every year the fledglings learn this: at some point the nest of twigs and thistle down and the blue ribbon from last year’s presents is not enough. The dappled rustling shade of further branches beckon. The wide arc of sky, streaked with wind and sunbeams becomes a daily siren song. And then the day arrives [...]

Ready, get set…

In nineteen different places today, all at once. The sky is blue, but winds are roaring up our valley making the birch leaves show their silver underbellies. By my computer on the bar in the kitchen are a row of ripe peaches. Outside hawks are calling. It’s getting ready time: laminating folders and organizing books, [...]

Tuesday Notebook

Kneel down, hold the ground in your hands or reach up and hold meteors in your glance as they plummet through the dark night. Be thankful. *** This morning the air felt scrubbed clean after last night’s rain. I went bleary eyed to my studio, pulling on one of DH’s t-shirt sand a pair of [...]

Sunday doings

Eating french toast, house hunting with the inlaws, listening to the crickets, chasing the chickens (we think one is a rooster) out of the flower beds, counting down the days (eight) until I go back to work, planning hikes, planning big art pieces, thinking of tie-dying (has anyone done it? tips?), thinking of re-painting my [...]