Sweet Stuff

Apr 5, 2013 | Art, Art techniques, Food and Drink

This must mean spring. Sweet sticky syrup that I pour on everything. The syrup in the Mason jar is made by my neighbour. He taps a number of sugar maples along our streets and cooks it up in his sugar shack on his back lot. The willows from our yard have flowered so...

A New Look for an Old Pot

Feb 19, 2013 | Uncategorized

I often drop off unused clothes or household items at the local thrift shop; but I rarely wander in deeper than the drop box. The reason – if I’m scaling back my “stuff”, simplifying my living space, then why wander the aisles on the chance I’ll bring home more. But...

Spring on a Cheesebox

May 15, 2012 | Art

In university, I took several fine art courses. All of these were studio courses requiring textbooks. Decades later, I still have most of these textbooks and I love exploring the images on these pages. How things have changed! But the one constant from the 70s to...

Inspiration

Apr 25, 2010 | Art

Last year this rhododendron had perhaps three flowers on it. A landscaper told us to wrap it in burlap for the winter to protect it from wind…and look what happened!! This is the first blooming of the flowering shrubs in our yard and I wanted to do something...