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fieldnotes + to do

Looking out the window.

Looking in from the outside.

Altered view.

Most of Saturday was spent working in the back garden, pruning out the last of the blackberry canes. 

The little birds are gathering bits and pieces for nests.

The native current is in full bloom. Usually a hummingbird can be found there. 

Widget loves the birds and has discovered another window where she can watch. 

To do soon: wash the windows.

Potatoes, radishes, carrots, and beets planted. Asparagus tips up about an inch and rhubarb could have been picked. 

I decided to wait one more week.

The fig tree made it through the winter. 

I am wondering, have I finally found the right spot and right plant.  That's the thing with figs in this area. 

The just right spot. 

in a bubble

Family photo layered over the image of the sun print.

Enlarged.

Edges softened.

Filter added.

My favorite "app" for playing is "Image Blender."

Only change...a different filter.

 

I have listened to an interview with Michael Longley (poet) several times now.  This morning considering this:

And I think what art can do is to tune you up. I mean, if you think of an out-of-tune violin, and tuning it up so that it’s in tune, I think that’s what art is, and that’s what art does. And good art, good poems, is making people more human, making them more intelligent, making them more sensitive and emotionally pure than they might otherwise be.

keep going

fieldnotes altered

I've started a journal just for field notes, garden notes.

Making notes at least once a week. I will be going back in the blog and cross referencing some dates.

From this week:

• Osprey sighting again.
• Chased big opossum out of the garden yesterday morning.  It was not easily convinced to go.
• Planted seeds: tomatoes, peppers, tomatillos, broccoli (some of these a little later than I should have).
• First peach blossoms opened today.
• Fierce daffodils blooming in the garden.

 

Note to self: remember to grow daffodils in a pot for the porch each year.

altered softly

 

a bit of stitching...

but not in color.

The lighting isn't what I would like for the thread and really, it is good to look at the texture of it too.

smaller

Two layered images.

It makes the center smaller.

I like that.

fragments, break

Layered, layered, layered again.

Complex just like this past year.

Printed.

Doodled on.

Written on.

It didn't fit in my journal so I tore it up.

And then I thought, perfect.

This started as a break, sitting in the sunshine at work...two images almost a year apart. In one picture, a mask beneath my neck; in the other, dangling from an ear. 

Tired of making decisions.

I want to get back to daily posting as the momentum of it is helpful.

Mornings are better, before the day's adventures pull me in lots of directions.

Making as mending self.

 

food in fridge but which beasts do you feed?

Today's 15. Six layers, 2 different filters.

This wasn't quite the assignment for the last class with Lewis Rossignol, but I couldn't help myself. 

intermission

Between trying to get Lola to eat, distracting Widget (who got put in the bathroom for awhile yesterday) and trying to get some sleep...I am not getting much else done. 

I'll be back in a few days...