gently, last autumn, we tucked tulip bulbs into clay pots, pulling rich dirt blankets up around their papery chins

they've slept winter away in the dark, cold basement.

but last week we brought them up the cellar stairway and

behold the magic.

is it passe

to bring flowers as a hospitality gift?

it's time to walk the plank, me chickies...

arghh.

(fabulous fowl star in a short film about piratical poultry)

for kate

a flimsy corral

held this curious cow

newborn lamb

within a surprisingly short time it was nursing

and bouncing around the mama

dog dressed in frilly ruffle

wishing you a happy, happy birthday dear friend!

contemplating

the complications of thin ice

snow and corn stubble

a mild february in vermont

(usually by this time that stubble would be deeply buried under mounds of glittering snow)

cathy: yes, i make all the dolls

many of my patterns come off of ravelry.com

though i often change them up a bit

the yarn i'm using now was in the stash of a nurse who died from cancer last year,

far too young.

she cared so deeply for the underserved and the maginalized.

every penny of the sales of these dolls goes to support the 37 orphans at

orphelinat foyer evangelique

in haiti

homecoming

there's the unpacking, the laundry, the empty refrigerator,

the stacks of mail, the phone messages,

but isn't it glorious to come home after a long time away?

thank you all for coming to visit and leaving your always cherished comments.

doll series - six

do you see a resemblance

to beethoven?

doll series - five

i love meeses to pieces

doll series - four

"tu-tu" cute

doll series - three

"beary" sweet

doll series - two

coming

and going

doll series - one

do you prefer marmalade

or blueberry?

i'm still away.

but over the next few days i offer through the magic of pre-posting

a thing or two for you to play with

if you're ever in brattleboro

i hope you'll give me a ring (-:

happy valentine's day

hood museum - seven

the mystery of history (and herstory, too)

hood museum - six

a miracle

of angles, curves, and planes

hood museum -five

irises at dawn

hood museum - four

last night i had the strangest dream

hood museum - three

buffalo hide art

what would you draw on yours?

hood museum - two

hans christian andersen's mother was also a washerwoman...

but i don't think she ever looked this cheerful

the hood museum-one

let there be light

(i'll be away from my computer for two weeks each month until july.

pre-posts will be the best i can offer in my absence.

my fond regards to you all.)

night falls over peterborough, n.h.

and the bells in their clock towers ornament the frozen air

only memories

travel these steps.

the cycle of life

please enlarge this and start in the center.

work your way 'round and 'round

to fully appreciate salley mavor's brilliant

"self-portrait: a personal history of fashion"

currently on display at the brattleboro museum of art

liquid silver

paddling through pewter and ice

we cross so many bridges throughout our lives

carried in the arms of others

or under our own steam.

you know the expression

'we'll cross that bridge when we come to it.'?

today, i came to it.

and it is just another bridge...

february theme day: animals

a huddle of birds

on a bristly afternoon last week

in peterborough, n.h.

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