Fragments

There are those days.

When the sun is thwarted by grey clouds.

The weather is of two minds.

Unable to choose. 

Vacillating, just like me.

Fragments are looking better than the complete picture.

Sometimes it happens that way.

Tangent Reprise

More seeds.

Hardly a tangent anymore.

A new direction to be explored.

Time Capsules

I have been painting a lot of seeds lately.

They have great potential.

Little dormant vessels that hold the future inside.

A time capsule of sorts.

A horse chestnut seed has its own unique style.

The outer shell is spiny and alien.

The inner seed is soft and shiny.

It is hard to fathom how something so peculiar

will transform into an extraordinary tree.

Sprouts

A cluster of sprouts.

Seeds taking root.

Cactus Specimen

This past week I was in Sedona, Arizona making paper.

The desert landscape is so different, so unique.

Prickly Pear Cactus abound.

 A fellow artist decided to boil dried cactus specimen in soda ash,

a process we use to cook and soften bark fiber for papermaking.

He wanted to see what would happen to them.

The tough skins and thorns of the cactus washed away.

These beautiful, structural remains were left.

Veins, pathways, almost skeletal.

I was so enamored with them.

They looked like giant wings. Cactus wings.

I made a dragonfly.

Giveaway | Mosquito

I'm having a GIVEAWAY while I'm away!

Enter to win this charming mosquito. He's a tiny fellow.

Simply leave a message and a link or email by Saturday July 25th.

Let me know your favorite insect or winged creature.

I will pick a name out of hat on Sunday, July 26th!

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The winner is...

EVELINE/TIMELESS

Congratulations!

Tango

Marionettes tethered.

Dance.