The skies over Los Angeles remain a snowy grey. It won't snow here of course, but I like seeing it frosting the wall of mountains to my north. It's good to know that if I chose, I could drive for an hour and hole up in a snowy cabin. The fact that I've never done it is irrelevant. My intersection between reality and dream life can be as wide as I want it to be.
While I ponder the logistics of landing the sleigh and reindeer in a snowy clearing next to my Currier & Ives cabin I may as well cook something.
How's about some roasted fennel? (insert collective cat posse eye roll)
A drizzle of olive oil and a dash of balsamic vinegar, salt&pepper then into the oven for an hour or so. There's a recipe HERE
A lemon begonia sits on the kitchen ledge to remind me that the sun could return at any moment to interrupt my cool domestic bliss. It's the only yellow I want to see for the rest of winter. Sun be damned! Rain, rain, and rain some more!
More visual journal pages. My assorted bird specimens continue to get a workout.
MARY ANN MOSS
I love your life… 🙂
Another great journal page. I’m not sure why I’m loving crows so much these days, but I am and oh..I love fennel too and the beautiful yellow of that begonia. It’s warming up here, expecting Santa Anas.
Dear Mary Ann – love these new pages and the fennel sounds wonderful – two warm days here and our 2 feet of snow has melted…
xox – eb.
toni – the moss cottage mailbox accepts any and all security envelope donations from enablers far and wide. the addiction must be supported somehow. mustn’t it?
Hi, Mary Ann — Lissen, I’ve been saving a bunch of security envelope innerds and will be happy to send them your way, unless there’s no narcotic bliss moment if somebody else found them. Let me know, email me with your address if’n you’re interested. Loving the pages, the flowers too!
wow! your artwork is simply amazing! the stencil work is brilliant! love is simply the only word that can describe how much i appreciate it. and i can go and on but i always hate it when people dont introduce themselves properly and start dishing out opinions so…
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I’m really loving your CROW in your art! I was just telling a student today on my bus…because it was 20 this morning with snow on the ground and just very cold…if we were in San Diego we would be cold if it was 50, but if it was 50 here we would be taking our jackets off! Cooking seems very comforting right about now!
Oh Mary Ann, Your photography justs gets better and better. You make the mundane look spectacular. I want to go wash dishes in the sink…right now.
Roasted FENNEL!!!???! Yum. I’ll be right over. I am envious of your lemon yellow flowers. What a color!
Last night the rain was coming down hard, nasty! I was collaging like crazy with my husband. I looked over at him and said this is the most perfect thing we could be doing right now! The one good thing about RAIN is that you can stay inside, glue and paint, drink tea–Guilt free! In Seattle since we don’t get much SUN, when we do…if you stay inside you are full of guilt and regret. Because it most likely will rain the next day! But since there is no sun, there is no guilt. Love your patterns in the top collage!
We are shivering and gray in PDX but the thought of roasted fennel is warming our hearts. (going to go cut some of those bird stencils now) John took down the Christmas decorations but hung your canvas on the wall. YAY! Christmas all year. And seriously, your journal pages are just the best. Incredible.
Hold that that little pot of sun for spring, the cold and gray just make it all the swetter or sweeter……
I realize that you cut many of your own stencils, but do you have any good sources for retail outlets? Really like the use of the bird frame.
You must be the only Angelino not willing the sun to return. I like your spunk.
MA,
Glad you made it through the storm Ok. We’ve gone from sub-zero wind chill here, to 50 degrees and floods. It seems the weather is hinky every where this winter.
Your latest pages are really beautiful. You make me want to rip-up security envelopes 🙂
I have never been so cold.
love.
I am CRAZY about that thing you are doing with the stencils over the photos. Love it.