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#19 coincidence?

Following a prompt from a Carla Sonheim class, I squeezed a bit of paint on a page and pulled the paint down with an old bus pass.

After three swipes I realized I'd made a robe...the hearts were added later.

 

#18 In harbor?

It was warm and balmy this evening.

On the edge of a storm.

I took my dinner outside, thought I might light the candle in it's boat (a prompt from one of India Flint's classes) but then the wind came up and lighting a candle just wasn't possible.

Dinner was more than good enough however.

Shallots, Swiss chard (heavy on the stems, light on the leaves), pasta, re-hydrated peppers and parmesan.

The rain is heavy now.

The end of the "Shelter in Place" has been pushed out farther for us, date to come later.

#17 dinner was good

Just like the children I work with, hunger makes me cranky.

 

Roasted onions and potatoes + smoked gouda + sunflower sprouts + quinoa.

Dinner helped but mostly I want to grab the blankets while I can and go to sleep...

#16 blanket thief

Somehow she always manages to steal the blankets.

A little fragment keeps going through my mind...

"Love is not love that alters when alteration finds."

Shakespeare

#15 fragments of a pattern for the blues

First: Determined cat insists on sitting on shoulder, human takes photo.

Second: Layer photos using app on phone.

Third: Apply filter.

Fourth & Fifth: Repeat second and third steps.

First, leaves bundled around a tin can.

Second, walnut vat.

Third, indigo.

Fabric: silk/linen

First: a stain, probably olive oil.

Second: leaf bundle.

Third: hammer fresh indigo leaves on to fabric.

Fourth: walnut vat.

Fifth: Indigo vat.

Fabric: Cotton

#14 altered

#13 lifeboat

Daily posting has been good for me.

The rhythm of it.

I made three of these boats this morning, filled them with leaves and flowers and left them for friends.

Thank you everyone who has come to visit...

#12 without words but not without story

#11 vegetable love

I love going to the farmer's market.  The colors, smells, textures. People watching. Everything about it.

When it is open, it's where I buy most of my food.

(The economics and ethics of this is a whole other post.)

I've missed the first two and will probably miss a few more. A month ago I decided one way that I could support at least one local farm was to purchase a CSA. 

The first box arrived today.

Ingredients from the box: potatoes, mustard greens, pea sprouts, and sunflower shoots.

Other ingredients: smoked salmon, hazelnuts and a dressing made with homemade honey mustard, olive oil and cream.

There is always the garden.

More vegetable love.

The zucchini has sprouted, also a few pumpkins I planted.

Hopefully in a few weeks I'll be back to going to the farmer's market, but for now this is enough.

As is the flowers from the garden...

The background is part of a board with a collection of things I love. It includes me-made things, mom-made things, beeswax ornaments from the farmer's market, a print that a family friend made of the front of what was my grandparent's grocery store and something from Jude.

Love.

 

 

#10 time enough

There was time enough to cut the grass and enjoy the apple blossoms this afternoon.

And to pick a few radishes from the garden for dinner.

I used the tops for a pesto. 

Radish tops + walnuts + olive oil.

And time enough to start a pocket for a robe.

And to remember...

"Had we but world enough and time,

This coyness, lady, were no crime.

We would sit down, and think which way

To walk, and pass our long love’s day....

My vegetable love should grow

Vaster than empires and more slow."

Andrew Marvell, "To His Coy Mistress"