Variations on Landscape Narratives
Variations on Landscape Narratives reveals the essences of the present moment communicated by the land around me through exploration of different blue and green palettes. (more…)
Colorado Journeys
Colorado Journeys explores the long-distance essence of a beloved place I travel to in my imagination. (more…)
Celebrating Mid-Autumn Studio Update 2022
Celebrating Mid-Autumn Studio Update
We appreciate our ancestors and welcome this time to honor them. Whether you celebrate The Night of the Ancestors (Samhuin), Dias de la Muertos, Halloween, All Hallows Eve or all of them, Happy Mid-Autumn Celebrations! (more…)
Radical Attention to Detail
As I was spending multiple minutes on trying to find an ancient peach colored Tradewinds bead that would accommodate two strands of linen thread, to bury the end thread, it occurred to me that I have always had radical attention to detail when it comes to bead work. (more…)
Little Palette Book
Little Palette Book
Wondering how I would use my latest little pocket sketchbooks, since this one with the cool print of a Japanese book had heavy Fabriano paper, I decided I would put an end to dragging out various color charts and have my current palette all in one place. (more…)
The Carousel of Happiness
Our youngest grandson said he wanted to go to Happiness, we agreed. So off we all went a few weeks ago to The Carousel of Happiness. It was the happiest highlight of our summer, it more than lived up to its name. (more…)
Celebrating Mid-Summer Studio Update 2022
Happy Lughnasa, in the Celtic tradition it’s the time of the first harvest beginning on sundown July 31. We have been eating high off the hog, like my grandpa used to say. (more…)
Mozart and Music
When I write, the best music to keep me focused is Mozart’s piano sonatas. The simplicity and unembellished sound of piano surrounds me without distracting me from the task at hand. That is, until it comes to Mozart’s Sonata No.6 in D Major, K.284, (more…)
Time Journeys
Time Journeys
Stanley D. Brunn, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Department of Geography, University of Kentucky, Lexington,is writing his seventh mega book with Springer publishing company, TIME JOURNEYS. (more…)
To Journey or Not to Journey
Has anyone noticed, how things change more quickly? Like when you’re ready to go on a journey?
Over here, (more…)