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...

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...

Orchid Blooms!

The orchid bloomed today!  Or was it yesterday?  Sometime between dawn yesterday and 6AM this morning when I say my routine hello of admiration to this amazing plant,  it happened.  And this is the plant that crashed on Easter morning!!  (See blog entry for April 5) ...

Art Crawl

Happy to have been in the Art Crawl this weekend… And happy to have sold this painting!  I’m also amazed at the mystery and wonder of how Spirit moves to connect us at just the right time. Some friends came looking for me, all the way across town, and I...

Orchids & Muscles

At 6:00 this morning I leaned over to admire the tender new orchid shoot, walked across the room and heard a loud crash.  The clay pot shards and damp earth instantly spread across the floor and stood still.  I don’t know who was more shocked, the orchid or me. ...