Thanks for being great.!

I had a really nice Mother's Day and I hope all you other mothers did too. I LOVE getting cards from my children especially when they make them themselves. Store bought cards don't do much for me. Taylor made a very nice card this year. I have saved all the cards the kids have made over the years.

On Friday I received some lovely flowers from Michael and a card that said "Thanks for being GREAT!" I was beaming. I love being called "GREAT" by my children. I know people don't like Mothers Day and think it's commercial and all that but I look forward to the one day a year when my children focus in on me and do things like call me "Great".

The kids presented me with a pot of herbs I use often in the kitchen. I can keep it on the front steps so I don't have to walk all the way to the garden when I'm rushing. They also gave me some garden decorations. Unfortunately I haven't been able to put them out there yet because it was so windy and cloudy on Sunday afternoon and then that night the winds picked up and it rained and blew all through Monday. Many people were without electricity. I lucked out some how but school was canceled as they lost power. Lots of flooding not only here on the coast but across the state. Today the sun is shining but my yard is littered with natures pruning. I made out pretty good considering.





Remember those pretty iris the other day?



John's always afraid this big elbow branch is going to come off the pecan tree. I don't think that big thing is going anywhere.



Two big sections of my neighbors ugly-ass stockade fence are in the field out back and two trees that Johnny just planted for me blew over. I told him this morning that his two trees blew over and he said "You mean your two trees." Mothers Day is so fleeting.

Soulbiographies

Ode Magazine directed me to this clip and filmaker Nic Askew's Soulbiographies. Pretty cool.


"Filmmaker Nic Askew treats his audience with beautiful short films & stories about Life & the Human Spirt. Soulbiographies, he calls them. One of the movies that touched me deeply was an interview with old men and women in Guatemala. Nic wanted to capture the soul of Guatemala but during the interview he couldn't understand the local language that the old people spoke. He tried hard to listen to their words. And then he gave up. He started to listen to their voice, he looked in their eyes and face and watched their gestures. He immediately understood what they were saying. He discovered that his attempts to understand their words kept him away from being open with his heart directly to theirs."




HERE is a link to some of Nic's films. Watch at your leisure. They are all interesting.

What's blooming?

Thanks to my forgetfullness I am delightfully surprised every year by what pops out of the ground around here . I had to share these striking Iris'. I spent a lot of time looking at them yesterday.



Lily of the Valley are blooming too. They spread like weeds which I love and smell so good.



Meanwhile the birds around here are officially, really officially, out of my favor. I am really trying not dislike them as they have just as much right as I to live here BUT they are everywhere. Under car hoods. Completely overtaking the barn causing everything to be cover in bird doo and most unfortunately they have gone in an open cut-out that was meant for an outside light fixture. This causes a certain unpleasant odor to emit from an inside opening in my studio that is meant for a switch for the outdoor light. Yes. My husband is a builder. He isn't lazy. He works 24-7... in someone else's home. I'm thinking duct tape. If I do something half-assed that's how I get his attention as he is also a perfectionist.

This and That

This is the little weather forecaster on my wall. Yesterday this dude was wearing his swimming trunks! That's what I'm talking about! The weather is gorgeous again today and I don't see a cloud in sight so I don't know why he's got his umbrella.



Everything is getting green, green, green. I can't tell you how much I needed this. This is one dull brown, flat place in the winter.



Finally took a picture of the other mirror. I love the color combination here though I'm not sure how many people it will appeal to also. We'll see. I've got to get a web page made for my work. Next thing on this list.



We have been making hand rolled tiles this week in the studio for a job. I had some leftover clay scraps and told the girls to make some fun shapes we could use in future mosaics. I came back a couple hours later and I was so pleased! They came up with some nice stuff.



Enjoy your weekend. I'm going outside and working in the yard. Very happily I might add.

Enough

I saw this at Betmo's and had to pass it on.