Art Walk

Last Friday of the month is tomorrow. That means the Biddeford Art Walk at the North Dam Mill Building. Come by and have a beer, listen to some violin and look at some art. I will be there with my watercolor cards and some of my fish. Come by and say Hi.

                  Crappie with lures, original ink and watercolor by yours truly.

Here is Maisie getting a "spiritual transfusion" from her spirit mother (vs. Godmother), Paulette.

Urban Grange Black Gold

Here's this year's batch of compost. We are suppose to get some rain this weekend, so I spread some on the existing garden so that it might get soaked in.  I think this year we will try permaculture sheet mulching some flower beds and bring in some organic matter to raise and expand the vegetable garden (we've invited K&J to share the space with us). I'm eager to see abundant production so that I might be able to really introduce my From Dirt to Door micro-enterprise (stay tuned for more information about this).  The red-winged blackbirds returned today...Spring is definitely in the air.

Dentist!

Guess who is a member of the No Cavity Club? Look here.

More new scanner experiments

Here are two more originals. Bear with me as I learn the finer points of my scanner and spacing on the blog .

The tree is mixed media: ink, watercolors, acrylic;

the dragonfly is ink and watercolor.

Happy

Remember feeling this way? I hope she NEVER loses this "joie de vivre" and I seriously hope that it is contagious.

Excitement is the air

Three hours later, I have this image scanned and uploaded from our new wireless printer/scanner/copier/fax.

It is an image of my new personal business card (I believe you can double click on it to actually read it).

There are four areas highlighted on the upper left corner. These are my micro-enterprises: art, farm, talk, and write.

I will expound on what this means in subsequent blogs, but tonight I am giving my 20th century brain a break from this 21st century technology (I'll be glad when Maisie is old enough to help with this techie stuff!).

Innovation

Sometimes you have to look at familiar things in a whole new way...that's what is happening here at the urban grange.

I read somewhere that the chinese symbol for crisis is also the symbol for opportunity. It's not that things are "critical", but there are certain dynamics at work and about "work' that is creating a opportunity to think more innovatively about livelihood and balance and leading a creative life.

Stay tuned for more information.