Aside from my family’s foray south for the 2011 New Year’s eve this time last year, there is somewhat of a tradition round these parts to gather together to play music on the final night of the year and to ring in the New Year with tunes and friendship....
We have seen much rain and fog here lately which makes the swing of the year’s pendulum back toward the longer days and shorter nights a welcome notion. When there is too much darkness, we light candles….. And curl up for naps in our cozy beds. And occasionally,...
Half of my family is down with a rotten head cold that has us all operating a bit behind the power curve. We had a lovely Thanksgiving holiday here with my whole fam damily and then hit the ground running to Chicago for an Irish Dance Competition the...
Meet Sandy. Sandy is a sweet terrier mix of a dog whom I’ve come to meet recently so I could put together some drawings for her family. It’s been forever since I have done much dog drawing. I used to draw my old terrier, Caskie, quite a bit. There is...
A young friend of ours is turning 21, the true legal adult age here in the states, and so we gathered to celebrate this momentous birthday (and the Halloween holiday as well!) with an accordion cake, plenty of food and drink, and of course, music. There...
It is a season of change and of cocooning and hibernation. There are bridges to be crossed daily – moving to new things, bridging old projects to new adventures… From a well made, protective cocoon, given enough time and love, magic can emerge. Music...
(above, collage from my dear friend Tina) I’ve been outside a lot lately. Eyeing the moon in it’s waxing, fullness, waning….. I adore its comforting light – by the fire and by the dawn. In our somewhat untended yard space (as we are, for the time, gardening...
I didn’t plan a blog post for my outing today, so I have only a few photos to share. But share I will! I spent a bit of the afternoon today at the Cincinnati Art Museum, a place with which I am, sadly, not familiar enough. Perhaps I’ve shared a chronic...
My new friend Bee at Irish Blessings Tours had a wonderful idea the other day to bring the writing of Haiku poetry into my ‘illuminated diary’ practice. Like small, quick sketches, Haiku poems are a brief but effective way to capture a moment in time,...