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lavender sleepwalking, or sleep posting

2008-10-27T15:46:45Z

Under the yellow Maple #3

yellow leaves

blue autumn sky

red leaf green grass

red stems yellow leaves

Under the yellow Maple #3

I will be out for another walk today. The weather has been so beautiful. So sunny. I have some fun new ideas to try with cutting shapes in leaves, I like this idea, but have not executed it the way I want it to look. I bought a tool that may help me. That also sparked another idea.

I love the feeling I get when under the branches of maple trees lately. It feels like a different world, casting a yellow hue on everything.

I am feeling really sleepy and nothing is coming to mind to say. I got a new pillow, a buckwheat pillow, so it will take a little time to get used to it. Have been having some sleeping problems for well over a week now. I go to sleep fine but wake up in the middle somewhere and can't get to sleep. Strange dreams are perplexing me. My head is all mixed up, can't really think straight, or crooked for that matter.

to do list for today
*upload photos from nieces birthday party
*buy a couple months unlimited classes for yoga studio and sign up for workshops
*dishes
*nap
*autumn walk in the rare sunshine, maybe the unreal colors of the leaves will wake me up a bit

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Vox Hunt: Going Out On A Limb...with things on Tuesday

2008-03-11T16:22:26Z

In honor of Johnny Appleseed Day, show us a tree.

trees

fallen tree's last spring showing#1

fallen tree's last spring showing#5

Things I do not like about trees
1. the pollen makes my eyes itchy and my head ache
2. um....I think that is it

Things I LOVE about trees
1. The beauty overwhelms me
2. they inspire poetry, songs, art, and playfulness
3. In the Spring the leaves and blossoms are So bright, they banish the winter greys for months
4. In Summer they shade from the warm sun
5. In Autumn they have a colorful showing in fiery shades
6. They encourage us to climb up to see the world as they do
7. In Winter the bare branches look like crooked fingers trying to grab the sun above
8. a gentle breeze would never be heard if it were not for leaves on a tree
9. Trees are pure Joy
10. all the different shapes they create
11. even after they have fallen and died, they still nurture the soil below them to create more life
12. Birds gather in them and you can listen to their songs about trees
13. they make homes for really cute animals like squirrels, raccoons, and possums.
14. they hold hillsides together
15. they create food for many

seriously I could go on and on.

The pictures on the side, the pussy willows, are from tree that had fallen and it still has enough inside for one last spring showing. I had to take pictures of it's strength.

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Trees that Love me and the Swans Decay

2008-02-25T19:24:31Z

I know, the title is more poetic than this post will be. Haha! Just another walk about town and some pictures.

the tree loves me!

crackled swan

old sign on the ground

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Happy Monday all!

2008-02-11T23:11:34Z

it has been really hard to type and to take pictures wit the brace thing on my wrist. I have not been commenting much, but I have been reading. : )
The rain stopped today, I went out and took a couple pictures. I should have taken a walk, but am feeling so tired today. Maybe it was my deaf cat screaming at the top of his lungs at 2am, just to let us know his food dish was empty, then at 4am to let us know the fire had burned out, then at 5 to remind us his food is empty, and again at 5:45. I love that cat but he has no idea how alarming his meow is at 2am. Haha!

decay of a wooden fence

stuck leaf

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Carved in wood

2008-01-09T17:53:23Z

true love always?

carved heart in a tree#2

true love always

True love carved in wood
with tiny knives and golden keys
for all the world to see
M+P true love always
Screaming it from rooftops
echoes eventually end
but love carved in a living tree
forever and ever and ever
scarred in the tree
your decoration of Love
true love always?

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sunny winter day

2007-12-31T21:43:50Z

path with a reflective puddle

Here are a few pictures I took at the local park. When I was a kid we used to feed the ducks our stale bread here. Now we are not allowed, the ducks poop too much. This is a pond that has formed from a creek that feeds a local river. Taking all of the melted snow and rain from Mt. Rainier into the ocean. When I was a teen, my friend and I would park her car, Zoomie, in the parking lot, open the doors and blast Tori Amos or the Beatles out of her stock stereo and dance in the damp grass under the sparkling stars. This was the one time I felt SO free. We would also see who was hooking up this weekend, there was always another car kind of fogged up and rockin'. Many an embarrassed classmate would wave nervously at us as they left. Haha! Good Times!

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Photo Safari Society # 12 or Yesterday the clouds parted and I walked in the sun

2007-12-18T17:03:27Z

triangles on the road

wet tracks

plants

cracks in the sidewalk

I bundled up and went for a walk yesterday
Music soft and motivating
helping my soul relax and REALLY see what was around me. Experience every curve, every sun ray, every line. It felt so good, but today it is raining once again. So here are some of the things I saw.

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Self portrait thursday

2007-12-06T16:20:59Z

Lydia

went to husbands company christmas party on saturday and took this. :) Happy holidays to some and bah humbug to the rest. :)

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Friday photos

2007-11-30T15:57:07Z

Here is my Friday offering to you.
That store, what we always called the "little store" was where I would walk my baby brother and sister to to get candy, soda, and milk. I would walk with their tiny hand in mine, crossing streets cautiously together, excitedly choosing candy to bring home. Then I would carry their tiny body home on my back, they would be too tired to walk all the way home. I did this with such joy. I was in high school, sister was in elementary school by then, but brother was still a toddler. I did not go out with friends, or attend school dances, I played with them. I would babysit them and watch these amazing little people grow up. Now my Sister is in College, she wants to be a fashion writer for Vogue, my brother is in his last year of high school and wants to be a musician, he plays guitar and writes songs. I am SO proud of them, I feel so fortunate that I had the chance to hold those tiny hands in mine. To be a part of who they have become.

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Photo walking in the sun

2007-11-14T18:34:19Z

nothing can stop me

Wysteria weaving with the fence #2

broken glass on the road

stretching sculpture #3

stretching sculpture #5

Stars and a blue sky

reflection in a puddle

white tipped yellow roses

tall fence

replaced

red leaf with rain

So here is my offering from yesterday.
I layered my clothes as much as I could. It was chilly yesterday. The sun was warm though.
I went to my favorite antique store where they gave me a large scrapbook from 1935 with hundreds of pages filled with newspaper clippings about the Dion Quintuplets. They were an oddity back then, for a woman to have 5 babies, and lived through it as well as the babies. The children were basically taken away from the parents by the Doctor who said they needed constant supervision. He made them a sideshow attraction. People drove from all over to watch them play, eat, sleep, and cry. This is how these girls were raised. Reality TV before TV. I saw a documentary about them and interviews with three of the girls. They talked about how hard it was to be raised by nurses rather than parents. Who by the way never saw a penny from the sideshow racket. They were eventually not allowed to even view the children from the visitors area.
Sad.

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