bee creative

moon stories

 

This

 

plus this,

layered together in photoshop elements and then adding an "overlay" filter (found where the opacity is set on the far right hand side of Elements)

equals:

I was eleven or twelve the first time I thought about rings.  I was (and am!) a huge fan of Madeline L'Engle and read A Ring of Endless Light as soon as I discovered it. 

One of the passages quotes a poem by Henry Vaughan, "The World:"

"I saw Eternity the other night/ Like a great rind of pure and endless light/ All calm , as it was bright."

One of the gifts of poetry is how an image, an idea,  can be caught in just a few words.

A few years later I read one of Ursula K Leguin's books and found a passage that just added to my love of circles.  It's rather long so I'm not going to re-type it tonight.  I posted the quote here a few years ago. 

It seems I'm circling back...

 

first seeds of the year

I've always wanted to try using an egg shell as a planter.  Not sure how practical it is, but why not try once?  I planted a bit of lettuce in these. 

I also planted onion seeds today. It begins again...

And then there is this.  A planter of a different sort.  A lot more stitching to do on this...

coming around

Last Friday I walked home along the boardwalk...

This Friday I played a little bit...

It's been a very long week... but it's Friday again.  And Monday will be a new week. 

Jude's post today (Spirit Cloth) reminded me of something I hadn't posted yet.  A little sample I worked on the last month of December.  My parents found some local cashmere wool for me.  It's a bit hard for me to spin by itself, but mixes in beautifully with some other wool that I have.  A bit of the cashmere can be seen in the picture.  It's a brownish gray and is so very soft.