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Eggs Are Simply Nice

September 2, 2010

This is my art today. This lovely wee egg that is less egg-shape and more just a nice ellipse. ellipse |iˈlips| noun a regular oval shape, traced by a point moving in a plane so that the sum of its distances from two other points (the foci) is constant, or resulting when a cone is [...]

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Something in My Roots

July 28, 2010

Granted, my wheat heritage is based in Montana, and my recent travels through wheat country were in Washington, but the colors and the vistas are so identical and my deep response, the way my heart resonants at the scene, wheat has got to be in my blood. The thing I cannot figure out though, is [...]

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Malo, Washington home and acreage for sale – $239,000

June 4, 2010

Buy my sister’s house please. So she can move to Florida, and I can go visit her there and get some sunshine for pete’s sake. (Rain in Seattle ALL June, is that what’s in store?) Hand-crafted home on 4.29 wooded acres near Malo in Ferry County, Washington. A wrap-around veranda for watching the sun set [...]

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A Walk in the Park

May 22, 2010

There were scads of people at the Hiram M. Chittenden Locks today with their big-a*s SLR cameras, and not a one of them was pointing a lens toward the same subjects as I. I wonder why that was. (A click on the image will enlarge it.) iPhone Hipstamatic app with John S lens and Kodat [...]

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Serious wtf.

April 11, 2010

Things have been going along pretty swell. I’ve had myself on the he-is-dead plan and on lock-down—no meandering into spaces where my ex might be or may have left a trail. It’s been working okay, and with the new paradigm and regime, my number of melt-downs has diminished to almost nil. Nice. I have been [...]

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How Does a Garden Grow?

March 31, 2010

Last summer I opened my heart to the garden. I had finally convinced my husband that the sooner plants go into the ground, the sooner they prosper–and he went to work removing a sidewalk and a giant concrete patio from the property–concrete that was covering up areas where we planned to plant a slew of [...]

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what’s the point, of beauty?

March 3, 2010

What’s the point of a Rube Goldberg contraption? Children get science-class assignments to build things, learning about different “laws” I suppose. But why should grown-ups invest hours!!! in building such things? Well, because they are things of beauty. I love the fern frond in this one. And this one is just crazy amazing. Love the [...]

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Where once there was only concrete

August 19, 2009

Not the best photo, but this will give you a little sense of what’s been going on at my house this summer. All this space used to be your basic concrete patio, cracked and weedy, and of no purpose really. But now, this expanse of bare dirt is 2.5 cubic yards of a 50:50 mix [...]

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Magnolia Ace Hardware – great service

August 9, 2009

Yesterday we decided a new, improved wheelbarrow was something we needed. This decision followed on the heels of having 3 yards of gravel and another yard of Groco dumped in our yard–all of which would need to be toted to other parts of the garden. And then we worked on building a rain garden, using [...]

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Rain Garden-ing at Fairwood Library

August 8, 2009

Worked up a healthy princess “glow” today helping to build a rain garden at the Fairwood Library. The Stewardship Partners headed the project and we were along for the education. We’ve been trying to determine just what to do about all the rainwater that pours from our roof and that streams down the two streets [...]

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