Photograph, "Still Life With Seedpods".
Photograph, "Self-Portrait With Seedpods".
Friday, July 21, 2017
Hiking at Round Lake in Camas, WA by Jocelyn TV
This youtube video showcases
some of the gorgeous photography
of my sister, Joce.
Love it Jocelyn, thanks for posting.
Wednesday, July 12, 2017
Gift from my sister.
This painting of the little dog, Puggsley, may he rest in peace,
was painted by my sister, JSQ.
Thanks, Judith, it's super sweet.
Busy working on my paintings.
Work in progress:
Working on "Cowgirl In Camas"
acrylic on canvas
The paintings I'm working on right now.
Tuesday, June 13, 2017
Fantastic Yard Sale finds!!!
I found this awesome tiny handcrafted folk art cardboard dollhouse to put inside my larger dollhouse and I think it makes a great addition to my collection. And at 50 cents the price was right!!!
See below for a closeup of the interior.
And another awesome find by local creative person.
I snapped up this copy of a book by a local author.
She actually won an Oregon Christian Writers finalist award for this in 2014.
Couldn't resist the title and cover because it looked so similar to my own book
See You In Seattle.
Monday, June 12, 2017
Springy-ness.
"Flower Girl" Embroidery
From a line drawing I made in the mid 1970s.
From a line drawing I made in the mid 1970s.
I did the embroidery a year or so ago.
Very "springy".
I love my honeysuckle-rhodie-rose!
It's springtime and the livin' is easy.
A "Unique" bouquet.
Double the fun with a mirror.
And, inside, the readin' is easy too.
Tuesday, November 1, 2016
Friday, October 28, 2016
Wednesday, October 26, 2016
Tuesday, August 2, 2016
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."
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."
Sunday, July 17, 2016
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.
Tuesday, May 31, 2016
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.
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.
Sunday, March 27, 2016
Saturday, March 26, 2016
Easter Eve
Girl In The Pink Mantilla
acrylic on canvas, Dec 2015.
Boy At The Door,
acrylic on canvas 2016.
Friday, March 25, 2016
Wednesday, January 6, 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.
Wednesday, December 2, 2015
Wednesday, November 25, 2015
Wednesday, November 4, 2015
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.
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.
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.
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