June's Tune

Whether the day be sunny or gray, all grows green and lush.

High Summer

Been spending most of my days outdoors, tending the yard and the gardens. I've been teaching, but I'm taking a break from drawing right now. Pulling weeds, trimming grass, deadheading, raking, mowing, picking berries and flowers, digging vegetables, hanging wash on the line - all this feels like I'm working on one great painting or installation, or piece of enormous sculpture. It's the same process and it yields a similar satisfaction. This time of year makes me especially aware that I am a living, breathing element in a grand piece of art...

Life is Bowlful of...

My beautiful new piece of Kaitlyn Duggan pottery...

Zinneas! They were my Gramma's favorite. Today would have been her 114th birthday! :^D

My day card...

Bee balm...my hummingbirds' latest hangout in the garden...

Summertime is all about abundance...

July, She Will Fly...

So catch a ride with her while you can! Flowers, fairies, and farm boots - plump raspberries, and new red potatoes. From ethereal to earthy, July offers her bounty to us...

May Days

I should be drawing, but this has been my main tool for the past few days...

Making a new perennial bed at the top of our driveway, where two birch trees used to be...

Forget-me-nots and Firewitch (Pinks)...

Painting the back porch...

Early lilacs - we don't usually see these until Memorial Day! (My sister Sue's whimsical watercolors, and my daughter Kaitlyn's beautiful pottery...)

Mother's Day BBQ at my neighbors...it was freezing that day!

A hummingbird moth...

Afternoon sun in the hostas...

Bee in the bleeding hearts...

Me in the bleeding hearts.

What are you digging, making, or building these magical May days?

Abundance

A sweet harvest.

Wild strawberries at the edge of the woods.

Yellow Mallow.

Parsley and lettuce.

Green beans. Grass clippings make great mulch.

Garlic is forming scapes...

The tomato plants are happy!

Two rows of potatoes.

Rainboots and basil.

We are going to have a bumper crop of raspberries this summer!

Our garden.

Our rainforest...

Thunder and The Laying Hens...(good name for a rock band!)

The studio in the woods, with work station set up under a tarp...

Inside the studio...

Andy and Ocea painting the walls and finishing the floors. Looks so nice!

Flowers and produce, all from our own backyard. That's a Rhubarb Cream Pie - it was goood!

Almond Oat Scones with wild strawberries served on one of my Gramma's cake plates...

One of our female hummers.

I really can't complain about the rain...(we have had 24 days of it this month so far...)...not complaining, nope...