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Beet Beauty
Ever feel as though you're moving at the speed of light? That's when I need good grounding, and beets help me do that. I took this photo a few weeks ago, and just looking at it brings energy back into my body. Wish I had some real beetsto eat today, but it's way...
Growing Abundance
Last year my neighbor and jewelry artist, Tia Salmela Keobounpheng, shared a tomato plant from the surplus of her abundant garden. It turned out to be a hearty cheery tomato variety that kept me in delicious red fruit all season long. The surprise blessing this year...
Social Tending
The wasps are alive! That was my goal. When I discovered water finding its way into the basement via an ill-fitting and leaf-clogged downspout, I borrowed my neighbor's ladder. Then, just in time, I saw the wasps, above my back door and two feet from the gutter in...
Growing Open
Do you think she's shy? Or does she appear that way until the petals fill with sunshine and unfurl? I appreciate how the early stages of unfolding can seem so awkward and even scrawny, but truly the black-eyed Susan flower is beautiful all along the way. This helps...
Pattern Steps
On my artist's date this week I wandered across the field of the Sisters of St. Joseph looking for the labyrinth. Suddenly I noticed the uneven ground beneath my feet and realized I'd just walked over it! Turns out they are in transition. There are two labyrinths...
Listening
The smallest space on my studio table seems to be enough to tell a story. A bunch of buttons, paint swatches and a new painting complete. I wasn't so sure about this painting just before the last layer. Was it done? Had I messed it up? Had I lost faith? I showed...
Tune Up
So, on Sunday I came home after church and a quick unsuccessful search for free wood chips and I saw that my neighbor Eli was tending to his garage sale. Eli is a bike wizard. Just for fun, he and a buddy have rounded up dozens of secondhand bikes, fixed them up...
Seed Love
Two years ago a dear friend gave me a birthday card dotted with kind words and seeds. All I have to do is soak the handmade paper card, plant it in the ground and tend to the growth. Finally they are in the garden. Why has it taken so long? I hope it's not to late...
Pop!
From one day to the next, poppies pop. They go from tight fuzzy buds bursting at the seams to this papery magnificence that only lasts a short time. Poppies teach me to pay attention, to anticipate the pop and to savor every wondrously colorful moment of their...
See shell
This seashell has been sitting on my table where I see it every morning. And, I don't see it. Not really. And then the other day I was talking with my artist friend Karen and she was talking about the six patterns in nature. What are they? I suddenly got very...
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