Field notes: A small collection of beautiful things

The quality of light just here, on the plate where the yolk from the egg has spilled into a small river of gold against white enamel; light falling through the big south facing window before noon, while at the feeder chickadees scatter the sparks of millet hulls onto the grass beneath. // In the woods, [...]

The best & Worst: Notes from the weekend

Hello friends! How was your weekend? Mine was, like weekends often are around here lately, a mish-mash. The high notes: Rambling in the woods + fields with Clover. Watching her run off leash through the high grass in our meadow. Putting up colored lights around the big pine tree + house. (I am completely crushing [...]

The secret to perfect timing, and the sweetest Clover

Call me irrational. And maybe I am. But when I get an idea into my head, sometimes I can’t shake it. This time the idea I had was a dog. A partner in crime. A studio buddy. A reason to be out doors infinitely more than I am right now. An excuse to take rambling [...]

A creative loophole:

That perfect letter. The wishbone, fork in the road, empty wineglass. The question we ask over and over. Why? Me with my arms outstretched, feet in first position. The chromosome half of us don’t have. Second to last in the alphabet: almost there. Coupled with an L, let’s make an adverb. A modest X, legs [...]

An inventory of things found on my studio floor:

Things found on the floor of my studio: A blue letter O; two puzzle pieces; a small rocket ship; a cardboard tile with the word COMETS on it; a very small sticker stuck to the floorboards that says “Road Closed” in black against orange; another sticker, artfully pressed into a knot in the floorboards that [...]