ruby crowned kinglette

cousin dating is, is not okay*

hi there.... i am still out here, but super busy.

i am leaving in 24 hours for a workation to the central oregon coast and i have lots to do before i go, and have been running around like a chicken with my head cut off doing things already - one of those things was not planning my schedule very effectively....

i want to thank each of you who responded to my 'blue' post, with the notion that the feeling wasn't all that foreign to most of you.  of anyone in the world i knew that this blog community would understand.  once i formulated my thoughts i couldn't not post about them and that action alone helped me relax a little and give myself some room.  i certainly owe many people personal emails and thanks; i am hoping that i will get to them while i am gone.

i am bringing my camera with me, the binoculars, the sewing machine, and a million other items including the dog and my first delivery from a local csa.  so much stuff, in fact, that i will be renting a bigger carbon footprint to drive it all down there. 

pictures to come over the next week or so, hopefully a few posts, some rest, beach combing, and lots of work too....

thank you to everyone who comes by to read about me and my little corner of the world. you are an amazingly wonderful community to be a part of and i am very grateful to you all.

those stacks of linens up there are from an amazingly wonderful woman, jude of spirit cloth. i am very late in posting about all the beautiful linen she sent about a month ago, i am taking this with me too because i think i might just have a little quilting in my future.  aren't they just the greatest piles of flax?  thank you again jude, it was incredibly generous of you and such a spectacular package to have received.

*this was the comment from a spammer this morning... i am toying with the idea of comment verification - i have had some spam lately, but i don't like the crazy verification either and if these are the gems that might be left for me then i would hate to miss them. and, it is good advice too.... just saying.

summertime

Summertime,
And the livin' is easy
Fish are jumpin'
And the cotton is high

Your daddy's rich
And your mamma's good lookin'
So hush little baby
Don't you cry

One of these mornings
You're going to rise up singing
Then you'll spread your wings
And you'll take to the sky

But till that morning
There's a'nothing can harm you
With daddy and mamma standing by

Summertime,
And the livin' is easy
Fish are jumpin'
And the cotton is high

Your daddy's rich
And your mamma's good lookin'
So hush little baby
Don't you cry

13 postcards for a summer postcard swap.... and a little gershwin, because everything goes better with a little gershwin.

happy birthday summer, it's nice to see you.

out of the blue

i can’t be anonymous. i am anxious to be noticed, to be taken seriously, to be counted.

i can’t be insignificant.  i have to offer what I know, i have to contribute. i don’t want to leave having not made a difference.

i am not content.  i am inspired by too many things, too many people, by what i haven’t yet imagined.

i feel inadequate. i feel overwhelmed. i feel simple, unoriginal, insecure and insincere.

i have ideas, thoughts, visions that i can feel, that i can almost touch. at the tip of my tongue, at the top of my head, at the front of my brain. but i can’t reach them. i don’t know how to get to them, i can't seem to let them out, to release them.

i want to accept that who i am is who i am, that what i do is what i do, that what i do is who i am.

i feel that i have lived half my life and i am just beginning.

i know there isn't a guide book, but there must be a path?

the covered button, in the style of ken burns

 

there is a step by step tutorial here if you are looking for bigger pictures and some written explanation... the link can also be found in my side bar - over there, to the right.

if you are here through the whiplash link, i would like you to consider making a donation to that wonderful site.  right now it doesn't have advertising, i would love to see it stay that way.  if you have entered competitions, found valuable information, new resources, learned a thing or two, or have been inspired in one way or another by what you have read head right back over there and hit the donation button.  kathreen has no idea i am suggesting this, nor do i benefit in any way by your making even a little donation, i just think it is a good idea and a nice way to say thank you for all her hard work and dedication.  and thanks for coming over here too ...

the end of pink....

you have been seeing a lot - A LOT - of pink lately.  i am not sure how to explain it.  sure, i like pink, but i like lots of other colors too, and some a whole lot more than pink.  so for now, i bid pink a fond farewell, at least for a short while.

making amends, and horses

you may recall the very mad bee in my house a couple of weeks ago... well, i think i have been able to make amends, if not with him then at least his kin folk.  my dortmund rose is nearly in full bloom and there seems to be lots of pollen - and lots of pollen is making lots of bees very, very happy... and heavy. 

so then, mr. bee, please accept my apology, i think you are going to be(e) quite content now.

and... two new horses. one for a young friend to give to her sister. i am leaving it up to her to give her a name...

and a second one whose name is honey - because.... well, she is sweet as honey.