On Thursday, December 3, The Nave Gallery opens its December Salon featuring the work of almost a hundred artists. Below you can read more information about the Salon, and get a sneak preview of my artwork on display, as well as sneak peeks at works by two excellent artists, Zoe Langosy and Stephen Horne.
One of [...]
Archive for November, 2009
Save the Date: Nave Gallery December Salon Opens Dec. 3
Posted in Guest Contributor, Inspiration, Photography Exhibits on November 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Aunt Thelma’s Christmas Cactus
Posted in Inspiration, Nature Notes, On the Road, tagged Christmas Cactus, colors, Photography, Red and White on November 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Speaking of Butterflies: Shay Youngblood’s Black Girl in Paris
Posted in Books I Love, Inspiration, tagged Black Girl in Paris, Shay Youngblood on November 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Years ago, when I was at a different crossroads in my life, a colleague suggested I read a book by one of her former students. The book was Shay Youngblood’s A Black Girl in Paris. As the title suggests, it’s about a young American woman who packs her bags and moves to the City of [...]
Butterflies as Inspiration I
Posted in Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged butterflies, color, ink, Photography, watercolor on November 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Butterflies have always been a part of my life. Quite a variety made their way through rural southern Virginia. My brothers and I found a little green pod once. We watched it grow transparent and out drip a wet-winged Monarch. White and gold butterflies were most common. Every now and then a blue butterfly would [...]
Lovely Color-Filled Language: Marianne Moore’s The Fish
Posted in Inspiration, tagged color, fish, Marianne Moore, nature, poetry, sunlight, water on November 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
” the submerged shafts of the sun, split like spun glass,
move themselves with spotlight swiftness into the crevices
– in and out, illuminating the turquoise sea “
Read the full poem, The Fish, and about the fascinating author, Marianne Moore, here:
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/21070
The Art of Slowing Down
Posted in Branches, Inspiration, tagged slowing down on November 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It shouldn’t take the flu to slow one down, but sometimes it seems that way. I do not think that I am particularly energetic but of late I have felt a need to slow down, or to encourage people around me to slow down. So, how strange it was to rediscover amidst my journals a [...]
Back Bay Flower Peeking Through a Fence
Posted in Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged Boston Back Bay, flowers, Photography on November 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Rediscovery: The Africa Diaries
Posted in Books I Love, Inspiration, tagged Africa, Beverly Joubert, Derek Joubert, Photography, wildlife on November 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Not to be cliche, but I have indeed always dreamed of traveling to Africa. To this day, I remember as a child watching on network television shows like Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom and National Geographic. At first I wanted to be one of the researchers on the ground studying the animals and the people. [...]
More Golden Books!
Posted in Books I Love, tagged golden books, bunnies, children's illustrated books on November 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Found at a used book store for .25 each!
Windows and Doorways
Posted in Inspiration, tagged mothers and daughters, musings, Photography, windows on November 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday I found an essay that I called The Watchers. It was a very short, personal piece about my mother and I, and how from her I learned to observe the world through the windows and doorways of our home. Though the woman I knew stayed close to home, and she made clear her worries [...]
