Natural Color

Shirley Jaffe born 1923

Shirley Jaffe works are blowing my mind recently...

Shirley Jaffe, Sunset Blvd. 2008 oil on canvas

Katharina Grosse 2003

trisha brown

fabienne lasserre 2009

Marjorie, [I forgot the artists name!  :(]

Happy weekend to you!

and

Please enjoy 'Dogs In Space' (with Micheal Hutchence, I couldn't resist posting this ha!)


I finally got to see the movie 'Beginners' last nite.  I loved it actually.  Good day mate!  So much happening right now.  Hang tite.

outside and inside

chris made some kale chips and they were tasty.  i picked up a brown ceramic vase at exceptional treasures.  eating away at some homemade garlic infused goat cheese given to us by a wonderful lady ( maggie b you make a delicious pumpkin pie and your cheese is so swell).  been reading Juliette de Bairacli Levy's book common herbs for natural health.  we are still working on an apple pie pictured above from c's aunt becky, tastes very yummy warmed.  and also been drinking  of peony and juniper tea (this one batch pictured above also has passionflower tea in it for further relaxing qualities:]).  peony has medicinal properties that i am finding very handy lately apparently the root carries the most properties but the leaves are what i have so i'm using them.  it's a mild narcotic [not that i need that or anything;)] and antispasmodic.  nothing crazy.  the juniper is a toner of the insides, super good anti-fungal/ balancer and it sorta peps me up for winter with it's very strong aroma.  c made the bestest soup ever with barley and kidney beans/ kale.  he recieved tons of it at his work so it's been put to good use.  lots to do today house is in chaos with the messes and what not.  time to clean and play catchup on some projects.  

///ˆˆˆººº

ivan-ivanov 'seasons' animated by yuri norstein.  this video always gets me come winter!  i've probably posted it more than a few times.  if i have apologies!  it just has such a delicate magical tone to it.

lately the frost has been covering the grass and refracts tiny rainbow prisms inside each glob of ice crystal.  i'm happy to see the sight, but also feeling a little unprepared for winter.  often times, we drive around for a while after we drop c off at work.  little iris and myself roaming the countryside.  so far we've seen a mama doe and her family running in the woods, healthy and unphased by the weather.  it's also fun to spy a bunch of woodpeckers in the forest near the road.  one has already happened to be right in front of the car on the street as i was heading down a hill.

and


unusual images from the 'glass harmonica', russian animation...

and this movie...

and one for the road...
|\\\|\\\|\\\|

slow downs

beach sketch

ladies sketch

snowout sketch

doesn't work

c's homemade tempeh bacon

work in progress :)

came with tapeplayer, works

juniper branch from side of house

Gratitudes and Latitudes

I decided to post some photos of the sign that I made for Fresh Connections Co-op Market here in town. It's so nice to have it done.  I hope the stores customers and whatnot will be able to enjoy it here and there...  Also, Thanksgiving...  it was pretty good.  I hope yours went swimmingly as well!  We made our 'seitan turkey' just as we did the year before, and came home with an apple pie and pumpkin muffins.  It turned out pretty darn nice, hanging out with C's family and enjoying good laughs and yummy mashed potatoes and the like.  Our cat is as silly as ever.  It's crazy.  Here is some work that I'm tying up loose ends on,  pictured above.  Hoping to accomplish a few goals this weekend...  

A good one to you :)!!!

New Traditions to help the Old Ones

Above paintings by Bendik Riis

and

obsessing over the candle magick again.

I was up till about 4 something last night.  I finished the sign for the local co-op natural foods market!

Yay!  I'm a bit of a zombie, but for now I give you Bendik Riis' paintings and candle compulsions.  

Perhaps I can do something with this obsession.  I've made candles before but we have no beeswax right now.  Would it be strange to do sculptural candles?  I wonder. 

The fun is in the lighting of them.  But also the energy they harness before.

The potential of the candle to help foster things or wishes that come from the imagination.  Manifestation. 

  Goodbye, I'm off to lunch.

Play and Time