Posted in Travel Sketchbooks on August 31, 2006 | 1 Comment »
Aug. 10 Everybody should start their morning with Kick Ass coffee like we do at the Lake. . . followed by a row on the Lake in the “water spider”.
Kick Ass: Deep dark flavour, perfect to start your day (scratch n’ sniff, a real coffe bean glued on)
Munchkin sized chair in corner of [...]
Posted in Contemplative Sketchbooks on August 29, 2006 | 1 Comment »
The kids went back to school today and I sat down to sketch IT.
School is a blast! for me who’s not in it,
just watching it, feeding it, shopping for it,
driving for it, encouraging it
and then,
while it’s going on without me. . .
i celibrate again in salamander time, just me and the nature around me
in [...]
Posted in Travel Sketchbooks on August 28, 2006 | No Comments »
Aug. 9 Back/front door of our cabin: Hobbit-hole-like, it swings out on the lake-world. This a.m., a visit from a lone kingfisher.
(From the book I’m reading) “Eat, Pray, Love” by Elizabeth Gilbert . . . Antevasin: sanskrit for “one who lives a the border.”
“a student on the ever-shifting border near [...]
Posted in Contemplative Sketchbooks on August 27, 2006 | No Comments »
This one started with my preoccupation with my knees not being what they used to be (flexible and strong!) I thought maybe art would be a way to talk to my knees and find out what was going on. I grabbed a proof from my husband’s new work and glued it to the [...]
Posted in Travel Sketchbooks on August 25, 2006 | 5 Comments »
Aug 8, 2006 Volume II (from the second sketchbook I did on the Canada trip)
Where the heck are all these bears and moose? Elk and wolves?
Frogs, toads, squirrels, Yes! But we want the BIG SCARY ONES!!!
Lake Cabin telescope
6pm and the sun still sits high in the sky. Where have all [...]
Posted in Everyday Sketches on August 24, 2006 | 3 Comments »
Aug 19 Andy mugs at my new computer’s photo booth. Which one is the true Andy? (Answer: all of them)
Posted in Travel Sketchbooks on August 23, 2006 | Comments Off
Lake Flora
Tennis shoes (CA) = Runners (Canada) = Sneaks (East Coast) = Tennies = Shoes
Frogs in the lake, in the woods, in the puddles, in the grasses (Andy’s frog)
Dinner, Ed’s homemade won ton soup Note: Get Sweet Chili sauce
Poker playoffs - Ben vrs Ed
10 pm Full moon paddle: utter [...]
Posted in Travel Sketchbooks on August 23, 2006 | 1 Comment »
Aug. 6 No ticks here, nor poisoness spiders, nor snakes, and it’s just cold enough to discourage the “skeeters”.
Nest in fir tree beside cabin deck.
Judith gives a lesson in her pottery studio. Andy learns to throw pots.
Hearthstone Pizza for dinner: recipes from “Pizza: A Slice of Heaven” by Ed Levine - or [...]
Posted in Travel Sketchbooks on August 23, 2006 | No Comments »
Aug. 5 Lake Cabin on the porch after breakfast. Andy sketching me, while I sketch him - in pieces.
“Do you mind, Mom, if I make you look like an ogre?” (Andy)
“Not at all. Do you mind if I give you a fat lip?” (Me)
Marmot sightings, helicopter sized dragonflies, mosquitoes (smashed mosquito [...]
Posted in Contemplative Sketchbooks on August 22, 2006 | 1 Comment »
When I want to let go of the mental process of trying to “think” my way through my day, when I need to get back in the present moment to know what is “here” for me, I sit down at my sketchbook, let the mind sink into a kind of flatness, and start to play [...]
