Bird Song In The Morning

The sun was golden and the garden was filled with bird song when I woke up this morning. After breakfast, I took a walk drinking in the fall air as the leaves crackled beneath my footsteps, a haunting reminder of the cold dreary days ahead.

Autumn Leaves
“Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of [...]

In The Garden

Our Persimmon Tree
I spent the day in the garden raking and cleaning up leaves. I also repotted some plants and cut some Lavender for the house. Whew, I’m tired!

Fall Leaves
“Night is drawing nigh- “How long the road is. But, for all the time the journey has already taken, how you needed every second of it [...]

Clearing Clutter

I spent most of the day clearing clutter from my studio so I would have enough space to work. I cleared out old brushes, empty paint tubes, art books, scraps of paper etc…  Now everything is neat, tidy and my art table is ready to go!
Later, I rewarded myself with an eggnog latte as I [...]

Happy Halloween

There are a number of amazing Halloween events happening tonight and I hope everyone has a great time.
Celebrate …  laugh … Dance … Sing … Make Merry … and stay safe.

Halloween - Digital Collage - 3 x 4 inches
The mask I am wearing is made of paper mache, acrylics, metallic ink, and lined with soft [...]

Demeter & Persephone

For the past few days I have been working on my new blog site at Gaia’s Garden and I’m having a lot of fun updating and writing new content for the blog and the original website.
Today I am working on ideas for new images for the website and came up with the image below for [...]

Mosaic Flowers

I took a walk this afternoon and came across this beautiful mosaic memory wall located at a local hospital which has been creating a healing garden on their property.
Over the years they have planted herbs and flowers along winding walk ways and added lovely statues, bird feeders and a water fountain. Most recently they have [...]

Gratitude

Today I am grateful for all the special people who have touched my life, especially my family and friends. We laugh and cry together and with them I feel I belong and am loved.

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.
It turns what we have into enough,
and more.
It turns denial into acceptance,
chaos to order,
confusion to clarity.
It can [...]

Art Museum trip

Yesterday was our first visit to the new de Young museum since one about a year or two before the closing of the old one. We had lunch and ended our visit with a trip to the tower with it’s incredible panoramic view of San Francisco.
We loved the New Guinea collection! There are over 400 [...]

Wild Day In The City

It was a beautiful sunshiny day in San Francisco as we headed out early this morning to visit The de Young Museum. It took us several hours to see all the exhibits and we were exhausted by the time we got home.
We took lots of photographs and I will post some of them tomorrow. It’s [...]

Crows & Baubles

While I was in the garden this morning I noticed that some of the shiny baubles I had placed in a container were missing. It’s not the first time this has happened and the culprit is usually a crow.
Later when I went to take the garbage out, there was a crow with his “beak in [...]