More Spookiness!!!

Whooooo. It's the Headless Barbie!!

Halloween Decorating

My Owl Collection

LOST INTENSITY

I finally finished  a book of poetry, Lost Intensity.  It is now available through amazon's website.  Coming up soon will be another collection of my poems entitled Even The Dregs.

 

This collection contains poems written from 1965 through 2015.  One of my favorites is:

 

 

          The Mountain and the Spider:  A Fable

          

          Nestling in the warm hard golden grass       
          of a mountain meadow,
          three people watch the sunset
          across a craggy gorge.
          Above the fiercely rushing river,
          a mountain rises sharp and pink
          in dusk's reflected splendor.
          The two young women murmur
          quietly to each other; while occasionally
          their little niece chimes in.
          Their chatter dwindles to a close
          as the mountain glows unearthly embers.
          The three of them watch,
          lost in their own thoughts,
          as the color drains away.
          The mountain's large whiteness hangs
          against a black backdrop of sky.
          Impressed by such immensity,
          one of them turns to the child and says,
          "Wouldn't it be neat
          to be on top of that mountain?
          You could see everything if you were up there."
          The child, very small anyway,
          and surrounded by so many
          single living blades of grass, says simply,
          "You couldn't see spiders."

Letter from the Queen!!!!!

A while back I sent copies of my books, See You In Seattle and The Misses Carruthers  to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second.  I got a thank you letter back.  Of course it is actually from one of her Ladies - In - Waiting, but how exciting.

Working on some fun genealogy projects for Mother's Day and Father's Day.  My Book by Dorcas Zuhl Eversaul, written in 1934, is her autobiography complete with facts about her ancestors.

The Log of the Good Cycle Vagabond  written by Stan Spicer in 1947 is about his motorcycle trip down the West Coast of the USA.

 

 

 

 

 

Happy Easter 2016

"ALLELUIAH"

mixed media painting, acrylic on canvas, 2016





Easter Eve

Girl  In The Pink Mantilla

acrylic on canvas, Dec 2015.

 Boy At The Door,

acrylic on canvas 2016.



GOOD FRIDAY 2016

CAT AT THE FOOT OF THE CROSS.

  Painting, acrylic on paper.  2016.

My Books.

 

 

 

I had lots fun last year publishing my books.

  All available through www.amazon.com.

  Check out my Amazon Author Page too.

Epiphany

 

 

Happy Twelfth Night!

Rejoice!!

"Rejoice".  Painting, acrylic on canvas, 11"X14".  Dec 2015.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING

 

 

HAPPY THANKSGIVING

 

Painting, acrylic on cardboard, 2003.

All Saints 2015 and updated cemetary photos 2018

New Cemetery Photos 2018

 

 

 

One of my nephews passed away a year or so ago and his dad waited until the other day to have his Funerary Urn interred.

It would have been Ricky's 18th birthday.  A small group of us family members assembled in the beautiful Park Hill Cemetery to commemorate the occasion.  My brother read a lovely Eulogy that he had composed.  He quoted from The Book Of Lamentations, Chapter Three.

 

A father grieves knowing that

Our Heavenly Father is always faithful.

A lovely Urn.

A sweet little posie for rememberance.

 

 

Afterwards a bunch of us walked around looking at other family Gravesites. My sister brought along some  little posies (rosemary and roses) in the vintage family Picnic Basket.  So sweet.

 

The Vintage Picnic Basket

At Stan and Sue's Gravesite.

Another view of my parents' marker, from earlier that afternoon.

At E.J. and Narrah's Gravesite.

Another view of my Great-Grandparents' Tombstone.

 

 

Oh, yeah,

 

 

another one of my infamous selfies.

This is filed in the Accidental Selfie Category

as I did not realize I had taken it until later.

Always gruesome to see how the camera sees you. 

 

A sad and hot July day in this Year of Our Lord 2018.  But a beautiful cemetery in which we lay our loved ones to rest.  And an equally beautiful family, all of us, dead and living.

 

I love you ALL.

 

All Saints photos 2015

 

Did some tombstone trimming at the SpicerVille Ikebana Cemetery.

My parents' marker.



My Grandmother, RIP.



 My Grandfather.

 

 

Some other interesting sites at

Park Hill Cemetery 2015.

 toppled tombstone

 

hmmmm...

 AND

very sad

but

luckily

NOT OUR JUDY

 

I love cemeteries!

So do my grandkids as these photos from Nov 2009 illustrate.

 

 

 

Halloween Was Fun

 

Embroidery on denim.  Based on a sketch from the mid 70's.  Finally finished it!  Originally sketched as a design for a block print, I still  need to get around to doing that.