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It’s Easter. I don’t celebrate this holiday in a Christian sense, but I participate in the feeling of joyful solemnity. The sun is shining! Things are growing! The lady’s mantle leaves are up – about the size of a dime. The rain over the last few days turned all the lawn grass green. I’m going to make a tofu quiche and we will have one relative over for dinner. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This painting says “Easter” to me. I finished it yesterday. I’m doing a series of watercolor triad paintings. Mixes of yellow, red, and blue of various types. It’s very absorbing. This exercise came from Tansy Hargan<\/a>‘s lesson on Mindful Mixing in her class Finding Your Colour Voice. I heard about it from Liz A, thank you Liz! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I’ve made six so far. This photograph is dark and doesn’t really show off the colors. The lower left painting is on a different paper, so not sure it serves the purpose. I’m going to redo it, with one color change. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I made a small square book after a lesson from Emma Freeman<\/a>. For stitching in. It has threadcrumbs<\/a> patches on the front cover and some of the pages. The book is made from linen, soaked in soy milk, and dyed with backyard yarrow last fall. I might make more. I have a lot of that dyed linen and I want to use it. I don’t know if these small pages are the right thing though. It’s more spectacular as a large patch. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I’m obsessed with pussy willows. Salix Discolor. I find it interesting that I only register them as pussy willows when the catkins are out. I’m trying to note where they are along my common walking routes, so I can observe them at other times of year. This one provides a pretty backdrop for the Ferry Road sign. It should be easy to check on. Today its catkins were all sodden with rain and the fur stood up like a cat’s after a bath. It made me laugh. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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