Category: Landscape

Thursday bike ride

Second year in a row, we take some bike rides in Acadia National Park in October. It’s a great time for us to go to the park. Summer crowds are gone. Weather can still...

Morning

I almost have enough squares to complete the garden quilt. (The top left has a 3×3 standing in for a 4×4.) The top third is not stitched together, just laid out on a trial...

Chill in the air

All day I’ve been thinking about people losing their lives in war zones. It’s solemn. The sky held this drama. It’s been a quiet day here, stitching squares for the garden quilt, and working...

Hot

It may be the hottest day of the summer so far. The car thermometer read 88 degrees. I took a walk early. The sky had the whitish layer of haze that represents heat. The...

Summer

On today’s walk. A real feeling of June and solstice, with the blooming beach roses and the morning fogs. Looking at this photo later, I can conjure up the scent of the roses and...

Beyond beautiful

It can be hard to absorb how beautiful it can get around here. The lupines are in bloom. Fields of them. And the ocean (bay), so peaceful. I worked at the community garden today....

Connections

This is my scribble cloth, that I used to test a few calligraphy pens with the soymilk-based pigment paint. Looks messy, and like something I wouldn’t want to show anyone. Then as I was...