Author: Laurie

  • Dan Essig’s “The Exquisite Corpse Mica Book” class L.K. Ludwig’s “Painted, Knotted, Sewn” class L.K. Ludwig’s “Outside Inside” class

  • I’ve uploaded photos to Flickr but will be editing and writing descriptions over the next week. It will be difficult to choose the ones to show here on the blog. This is a teaser. I finally just picked one at random from the Sunday sunrise photos, the sunrise that put the sun in Sunday. I’ve…

  • In case you didn’t get the news, this is where I’m heading at 6:30 a.m. I should be there at 4 p.m. their time. I’ll be in the little green area just above the words Port Townsend. Seattle and Tacoma are just to the south of the map. Now I’m going to turn off the…

  • I can’t get it through my head that it is October 19. I keep thinking that it is a week earlier or a week later. I think that I just can’t process the idea that my big wonderful trip is this week! But for some reason, I can’t make myself begin packing? What’s up with…

  • It was SO NICE to work in the Back Forty yesterday. It was the first day that I have not been chased inside by mosquitoes in months. There is a frost advisory tonight. I pulled up all the field peas, carefully picked every last pea off each plant, and piled the plants up next to…

  • Oh, have I been looking forward to this morning. No real plans, other than to study for my exam on Monday and to get materials ready for this week’s trip to Journalfest in Port Townsend, Washington. Guido is galloping around the house like a racehorse. He is 13 years old and still a kitten. Lucy…

  • Two corkscrew willows, one living, one dying. If I had been completely alone, you can bet that I would have been scrambling over these rocks to play in the river and collect pebbles.

  • You can usually find beauty if you look for it. In this case, it was a walk beside a ditch behind the Super 8 Motel in Black Mountain, North Carolina. These asters were much bluer in person. I think that this is wild lettuce. I wish that I knew my plants better. Ditto. Ooh! Ooh!…

  • Our trip was nice but cut a bit short. It poured rain yesterday and we had had enough of shopping. I would have liked to do a bit of hiking but Sandy suddenly developed a painful knee. I got out into nature a little bit on Sunday morning and yesterday there was a short break…

  • Have I mentioned what an incredible klutz I am? Today I stumbled on a curb and took a bad fall. Both hands are bruised and my left hand is probably sprained and it is difficult to type. So it is a good thing that I’m taking a little vacation tomorrow and won’t be making paper…