I came home with over one thousand photos of my trip.  Landscape, buildings, sky (lots of sky) pictures.  Snap shots and more arty photo attempts.  Documentation of things that were unusual to me.  Photos of spaces that I wanted to reference for future art projects.  I realized at some point that it would probably be…

I am sitting facing my computer trying to think of what I want to say about my travels.  I have been home for four days now, and it is hard to believe I was ever away.  I do have the pictures to show for it, and a lingering tiredness… Scotland is beautiful.  You can read…

There are moments when how you think something is going to be and how it actually is are two completely different things. I am on my big adventure. Hooray!  At my grand old age, I have planned and now have accomplished getting myself across the ocean.   In the planning stages I didn’t realize how…

I think I have mentioned that time management and I have a tenuous relationship.  I plan for more time than there actually is.  A great example would be the projects I have embarked on recently.  This page, I started in February.  Then, I added planning a first time trip across an ocean for September.  Tacked…

I have an interesting relationship with time.  It has always been something that I never quite got a handle on.  It is flexible in its concept, in the sense that doing something I don’t like to do seems to take longer then it actually does (for me that would be sorting laundry to put away….

It is a fabulous thing when that wee baby, that you have cared for and nurtured, first says Ma.  Multiple years later, when that small child has mastered many more words and uses them in various ways, Mom, Mother, Mum, and Mommy are still in frequent use.  I have four beautiful children and I am…

Yesterday, was not a good Mum day.  There could be multiple extenuating circumstances that caused the chaos that was my yesterday, but they would end up sounding like excuses.  There was a lot of yelling involved, not all of it mine.  It was the yelling prior to my yelling that set the spark that made…

(Name + Quality + Visual Appeal) x Quantity = Value I have been thinking about my value equation.  I am pretty positive that the quantity part of the equation needs a re-thought.  There is a lot of value in something being the only one as opposed to being one of many, although the phrase, “you’re…

My continued journey in figuring out how to place a value on my art. I think I have come up with an equation. (Name + Quality + Visual Appeal) x Quantity = Value It is not a totally comprehensive equation. Intention plays a role, and significance.  For this exercise though I will stick to my…

I enjoy the annual return of the migrating birds.  The variety of songs, colours, and shapes.  It is like a game to play with toddlers.  What sound matches which bird? (A little more elusive than “What says moo?”. )  A bird that has recently returned to our area is the Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker (such a great…