On August 30th, 2010, A CUTE HEDGEHOG…
…perhaps the one responsible for invading the MacDowell Colony veggie garden, showed up this morning to casually sit back on his haunches under the apple tree out my…
…perhaps the one responsible for invading the MacDowell Colony veggie garden, showed up this morning to casually sit back on his haunches under the apple tree out my…
…is looking great towards the end of the season, producing butternut squash, tomatoes, and lots of leafy greens.
…made it feel cozy on this cool rainy day, but I realized that it was a bit too early – not quite cold enough, flu not drawing properly…
…over the meadow where crazy mobs of large dragonflies have been zigging and zagging all day to dine on recently hatched insects – as seen on the way…
…and the gentle masses descend on the typically peaceful retreat for an afternoon – plus a three hour open studio with visits from curious locals, tourists, and art…
…and a few reds, are popping up in Emily’s vegetable garden at MacDowell Colony – we get some in our lunch if the hedgehogs don’t get to it…
…have replaced the deer as my regular morning visitors – and I am enjoying this since they have a bit more style, both in appearance, and the way…
…are framed by the big window over my desk every morning, and today I got a shot of them at 6am as I was biking off to town…
…is out the front door of my cabin-studio and this morning when you stood right in the center the clouds were perfectly framed.
…is what my studio-cabin here at MacDowell Colony has – and I was told I was assigned it because it is kind of like a big Animal Estate.
…was lead today by Emily, the amazing MacDowell gardener, who is also an old friend who within the past two years has started a garden of natives around…
…is the most exotic fantastic gorgeous thing to eyes that have been mostly around a very dry Southern California landscape lately – and this particular mossy space that…
…which my friend Emily planted and tends, is one of the things (along with the roaming sheep) I am most looking forward to on my next residency from…
…has an entry in her blog for the Poetry Foundation called “Yoga for Losers,” including this – “I mean if you’re using something everybody already knows (Language, Conceptual)…