Tag: spring

  • my little green pals

    ?á ?á I am a proud mama… not only to a cat, but to a vast number of tiny, green lives. This year I started my garden indoors. I was waiting to find out which plot I?áwas allocated?áin the Community Garden, so I?ácouldn’t plant outside. I took a couple of egg cartons, a small bag…

  • smaller is better! Or, I Love A Challenge…

    Today I moved. No, I didn’t move out of my home, I just moved all of my “studio stuff” (folding tables, chairs, assorted cabinets, drawing table, supplies… oh, and many large paintings) into my small loft-style apartment. I am looking at this adjustment, this shift, as a challenge. Whenever I have seen those Home and…

  • happy easter

    This Easter weekend we are taking it easy, reflecting on life and the new life that springs all around us. We take note that today is Earth Day, and a cause for another pause and reflection. If you are so fortunate as to have both some time off and a garden, this seems like a…

  • Photo theme for April: The Contrasts of Urban Nature

    It’s April, and vibrant life is appearing all around us again. Spring has?ácertainly?ásprung (at least across North America!) Everywhere there is an urban setting, there is nature too. That little weed pushing its way through the sidewalk crack, the gull resting on top of a lamp-post, sunlight reflecting off buildings… animals, plant-life, and the Elements…

  • it is getting to that point

    A Sweeping Epic: An Epic Sweeping. In recent weeks I’ve been feeling a stirring, an urge… and it cannot be denied much longer. Obsession. Thoughts drifting off at highly inappropriate times. Should I do it? Am I ready? I break?áinto a?ánervous sweat.?áGetting ready to… clean. In pre-Spring-cleaning mode, I am thinking about my methods of…

  • craving green

    March! ?áIt is nearing the end of winter, and we are like animals in the forest; all we want to see, taste and smell… is a little green. Beyond all the St.Paddy’s Day kitsch, green is plant-life, green is a beautiful colour, green means there is life. Let’s see?ásome green?áhere, in your photo submissions! If…

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