Like the Water Goes by, Fast

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King Herod's City 

Tenochtitlan

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Things that've been happening.  I partied with my husband C the night of the Super Full Moon eating Indian Food here and driving thru tiny towns with a bottle of wine.  Dreamt that I had a St. Bernard, that I lived in a flooding but quaint European themed city near the ocean and lastly in real life on Saturday I went to an auction with C's family and Iris and Enoch that had a lot of 1950's/ antique ephemera Mid Western style, on the way there we peeped the sights that the Union Slough had to offer:  3 eagles 2 swans doing the mating dance and me with no camera.  Good times had by all.

eyes for the dreamy

nunta de piatra (the stone wedding), 1972.

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concurs (1982).

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And an indoor garden startup/ painting update on Friday!  Thanks for being so patient with me.  This cold is the pits and well i can have a tendency to be a major procrastinator, deadly combo indeed.  Also, been feeling a little uninspired lately by my little old town but I did manage to snap a few photos on Tues. (below is a teaser of some of the photos I will post on Fri.), it got me out of the house.  Cheers to that!  

Messages in the Small Things

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this is the sketch for the next painting i am gearing up to do.  i am really nervous about this one.  i've had this

drawing sitting in my head for awhile.  time to get it out onto 11 x 15 paper.

hope i do okay all in all.  yikers, i don't want to psych myself out.  looking forward to finishing it up though! 

***  p.s.  my brother signed he and I up for a reunion contest, i even had to ask him if it was a 'real thing' or not.  and normally i'd try to keep my 'private life' just that.  it's easier for everyone that way.  but i really would love to see him and for him to meet my family.  we we're kinda like best buds when i was 6, he's 14 years older than me but he was always so kind.  needless to say i haven't officially hung out with the guy in nearly 20 years.  it's all just so crazy.  well apologies for coming out of nowhere with this stuff.  anyhow, we'll see what happens.  wish us luck if you so choose!
now back to the ol' grindstone.

Shadows and Light

A few years ago I  had a 'store' that went by the name of Grandma Candle focused on dream pillows, beeswax candles and magical herb formulas. With a background also in screenprinting and film I started feelin' a tad stifled. One year ago before sleep an image in my mind for a new shop was of an old dress pocket dug up from the ground with ancient relics inside. And I dreamt the embroidered words "Ancient Pocket" were being carefully put by my husband on a foliage covered shelf appearing out of a hedge.

With a lighted silhouette of a loving couple a photo in a natural setting and a starry landscape.  I took the photo about twenty times in my backyard in July. It almost didn't happen.

Ha, ha.

Chilly here in Portland, Oregon. As I type the wind seems to be dying, first frosts came a week ago.  Not a "cold-weather girl" as a good friend of mine says, but doing my best to make the most out of time spent indoors.

If you were a sea creature, which would you be. Seahorses are my first choice. Thanks little man!