dipping my brush in guoache. staring at one of my mesmerizing sailing ships. studying the patterened carpets around here. coloring my gulls. drawing more frames. drinking a bottle of cinammon horchata seasonal ale. reading o' pioneers that totally wasn't on my reading list but is now that i am officially obsessed with mid-19th century peeps traveling overland in covered wagons heading to all parts west. oh crap. someone just fell down a rabbit hole. it's hard to predict where i'll wind up.
I’m not sure why or how I ended up here but I’m having a blast reading your blog. I caught myself laughing out loud at the imagery you infuse in your joyful writing and it is candy to me. I’m not well versed in English, French being my primary language, but it’s evident that you are a master of the written word. And somehow, and that is the kicker, you have given me the impetus to get back into creating because seeing your artwork and reading your posts put me in the right frame of mind. So I would like to simply say thank you!
Thanks for the La Loma pic, Mary Ann. I was searching in my mind for days for the word for a special kind of photography, lomography.Your word set me on the right track.Thanks!
I’m thrilled that you are doing a second exploration into pattern – can’t wait to see where this leads!
Someone at that school knows a great thing when they see it!
If you’re enthralled with O! Pioneers, be sure to read My Antonia…it was the first Willa Cather I read and fell in love with the constantly hopeful Antonia who faced tragedy, hardship, a foreign land and terrible adversity…but never gave up hope. The PBS presentation of this book is outstanding. That book is on the list of Top Ten Favorite Books Ever!
I hope you don’t meet up with Alice, Cheshire Cat, or the Mad Hatter or Queen while you’re down the Rabbit Hole…I’m sure you’ll forge new paths and journals depicting this journey…Love the hooked rug too.
Besides your sketches, I was especially drawn to the needlepoint picture and woven rug. Lovely! Have you tried needlepoint? Do!
I love when you fall down the rabbit hole.
wherever it will be it’ll be pretty for us, so just be sure to take your camera along.especially love the light captured on that patchwork rug!
Yeah, but you just know it’s going to be an interesting rabbit hole. Alice has nothing on you. 🙂
Have an awesome time Mary Ann and please don’t fall down any rabbit holes unless that is your intention and if you do please send up a few smoke signals so we will be able to find you. I’ll send out a search party if I have too and I’ll lead the charge.
Well, I’m in a little boat on the east coast, Massachusetts or Rhode Island, maybe, looking for the father. Weird family. Not sure if I like the book, but it is evocative of place. Can’t say I fell down the rabbit hole but I do feel like I’ve been pulled out to see by a rip!
XO