Move Over Art Here I go again, on another side show as something else has come along to take time away from the easel for at least a few years. But this is an important side show! It's time for art to move over and make some room for dirt.…
The road of life is a well known metaphor for good reason. Much like the rural gravel roads, life in my experience, is full of twists and turns, ups and downs, a few puddles, ruts and bridges. Roads as a metaphor makes it easy to describe some of our challenges…
The 2018 farming season was another challenging one. A prolonged harvest wears workers out. Even though it was a productive season, it was quite tiring and more stressful than usual. Farmers tend to live in next year country and we are already looking forward to a better growing season in…
Despite the very late and stressful harvest, all the parts and pieces of putting on a show came together. A shout out goes to my kids and some friends, who played a big part in making it happen! My daughter Jilene and her boyfriend Oso, hung the paintings for me…
Here are some photos of harvest 2016. Harvest this year has not been typical, even though it is true that every year differs in one way or another. This fall has seen great yields but a lot of unseasonable rain which has made for some interesting and frustrating moments. The whole…
There is no place I'd rather be than in my studio when there is snow on the ground, unless it's somewhere tropical. This winter, I decided to skip the annual trip to Yuma, Arizona, and encourage my husband Shane, to go on his own. For about 30 years, with the…
There is a lovely difference between my gardens now compared to 25 years ago. I remember looking out of our oversized bedroom window more than 2 decades ago, thinking how boring the view was with the flat, patchy looking lawn. And thinking that I did not want to look at the uninspiring road in front of our house…