Sisters

Sister Spirit!

A photo on the wall at the cabin where we vacationed last month...

My wedding day in June, 1976, with my three sisters as bridesmaids...

Me and my sisters, circa summer, 1984...

Sisters' Day necklaces, made by Susan...

An exquisite corpse done by all four of us...(:^D) = B - >=======]

Martha, Amy, Deborah, and Susan, summer 2010...

Deborah (getting ready to walk down the aisle last month...)

Martha with our mom, Edna, wearing one of Mom's old square dance petticoats...

Susan on the dock at White's Pond in Wakefield, RI...

Amy, with our grandniece Patience Rose, dressing up as woodland fairies...

We had our annual Sisters' Day early this summer because we were all together on the east coast celebrating our oldest sister Deborah's wedding last month! Good times. I'm so grateful for my sisters. They are strong, beautiful women, ALL.

Ghosts and Graves

My maternal grandmother, Lillie Congdon (little one in the center) with some of her family. (Check out that lighthouse painted in the background!!! I must draw that...)
Lillie was born in 1896. That's her grandmother on her right, her mother in the upper left, and her sister Edna in the front. Edna died at age 17. My Mom is named after her...

Lillie ready to take a dip in front of her old beach house at Point Judith, RI. I could use a swimsuit like that...

Some of my cousin Jon's family grave photos...

My great-grandfathers ~ Lillie's father-in-law (left) and father (right), with her first born, my Aunt Carolyn.

My charcoal is waiting impatiently for me to grab it and get going on more portraits of these marvelous old faces...

My cousin Jon is going to be showing his grave photos along with my portraits. We are thinking of cool ways to do this...

Here are some of my ideas:

What if they were B&W prints?

And/or printed on drawing paper, so they look soft and charcoaly?

What if they were printed and then cut out and collaged on lightweight boards, to look like actual stones?

Or...

(Now I'm getting wacky, but what the heck...)

What if they had frames made of live grassy loam?

Or what if we placed the photos in a plot of grassy loam??

With the geraniums and the little flags...

Or maybe some more pertinent objects, objects from their lives...

Just doing some out in left field thinking...

Join in if you like!!

...and Jon's band might come up and play at the opening!

Jon said maybe they can play some Grateful Dead tunes!

Hee hee!!!!!

Sister Day, 2009

a Sister Day bouquet...

color choices: Amy...

Susan...

Debby's hands...

an exacting art!!!

the courtyard at my Mom's place...

whipped cream topped goody (ginger bread with fresh peaches...)

small gifts...

a magic act...

painted toenail mandala...

sisters plus one granddaughter and one daughter with a big pregnant belly!

two sisters walking the beach at Barrington Bay...

In 2002, my three sisters and I decided to start an annual summertime ritual that we call Sister Day. This year we met in July, at my sister Deborah's home in Barrington, RI. We exchange small gifts and eat good food and just enjoy each other's company. For this Sister Day, Deb treated us all to pedicures! What a luxury! My Mom also lives in Barrington, in the Alzheimer's unit at her assisted living facility, and after our pedicures, we had our afternoon tea with her.

Hooray for sisters! I am very, very, very blessed.