River Garden Studio

BIG Surprise

I have a BIG surprise

I am a Guest Designer

over at StencilGirl Talk

today!!!

I can't wait to show you

what I've been working on!!!

 

the sun's birthday

 

 I...am alive again today,

and this is the sun's birthday,

this is the birthday of life and love and wings...

e.e. cummings

  

I discovered an old,

much loved book high in a closet, 

and the title was so perfect for this post

and how I am feeling.  

Inside were beautiful photographs

and quotes by e.e. cummings 

and I joined him in quietly celebrating

the sun's birthday

and the unfolding of a dream.

 

 This last week amongst spring's renewal

and flower blossoms

I found out that

North Light Books

has accepted my proposal for a book

that I and my editor Tonia Jenny

have worked so hard on

for several months.

 

 .... no heart can leap,

no soul can breathe

but by the sizeless truth

of a dream...

e. e. cummings

  

We live our life,

finding wonder where we can,

 

High in the mountains

where fish fly...

we dream our dreams

and sometimes they come true.

 

 

During these times

we need to pause and take it all in,

during this very special time.

And I did, at the home of this person,

high in the Santa Cruz mountains.

  

 

Here garden and art are together intwined.

  

 

And what could be better 

than a day 

creating with friends?

  

 

Then to top it off, I had a wonderful workshop at

A Work of Heart 

in San Jose.  

Please see more photographs

of beautiful works of art here.

Driving home with Lorri's sweet sister Jan,

I stitched leaves and made bundles,

of hand-dyed fabrics and botanical prints.

 

 

And when I got home I started getting ready

for my workshops

at Sage Place in Bandon, Oregon.

And Pacific NorthWest Art School, on Whidbey Island

here and here.

 

At home my own garden

reaches upward

to celebrate the sun's birthday as well. 

White blossoms from the pear and cherry trees

fly like paper snowflakes. 

  

 Bird baths are filled.

And even the dandelions 

are set free...

as each tiny seed follows it's own

dreams,

just like us...

 

Please read this interview by lovely Rebecca Brooks 

about more of my dreams and what art means to me

as we plan for my workshop,

A Book of Wanderings

in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico... 

 

 Won't you join us?

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and think I have made it easier for you

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