slowly she turned
Living the Slow life in North Carolina
Author: Laurie
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I really should be packing, or making paper, or both. I have plenty of time, because I made plans to meet my Hampton roomie around 4:30 this afternoon, and it’s about a five hour drive with bathroom stops. Oh yeah, I’m going to Art & Soul today. Tomorrow, I’m taking “Revival: Restoration to a Visual…
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I’ve decided that my Indian name would be Races with Mosquitoes. The heat has arrived. I didn’t get as much done in the Back Forty during the winter months as usual due to my hip problems. I’ve spent the morning ripping out ground ivy, my mortal enemy. I’ve noticed a few things about this pretty…
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It’s been a great day. I planted the rest of the parsley, although I found so many volunteers from last year’s plants that I let go to seed that I needn’t have bothered. Needn’t. You can tell I read a lot. People where I come from don’t say words like “needn’t” or “shall” or “shan’t.”…
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Happy Eoster, all y’all li’l bunnies out there. I went to see my mama on Friday, helped her plant about a third of her garden: cabbage, onions, tendergreens, spinach, beets, carrots, and corn. I talked her into letting me plant way more beets than she needs so that I might have some. As you can…
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Here’s something that you can do with only two hands and a bunch of honeysuckle vines.
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I did something last night that I don’t do very often – I went out for drinks with a friend. It was fun and we decided to do it the first Friday night of each month. We started at the Rhino, where a scuzzy old coot decided that he might have a chance at hitting…
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We’ve had lots of rain over the past few weeks. In between the periods of rain I’ve transplanted volunteer foxgloves into beds that aren’t as sunny, one beside Miss Peanut and several under the oak tree. I look forward to them blooming this year because they have become one of my favorite flowers. Also I…
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We’ve had lots of rain over the past few weeks. In between the periods of rain I’ve transplanted volunteer foxgloves into beds that aren’t as sunny, one beside Miss Peanut and several under the oak tree. I look forward to them blooming this year because they have become one of my favorite flowers. Also I…
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Woodcut print from a photo of a window at Spannocchia, near Siena, Italy. I am still reworking this one. I’ll change the areas on the sides of the window and probably do a multicolor print. In this woodcut print I was experimenting with raising the natural grain in the background by rubbing between the lines…
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Ever since I was a child I have been fascinated with stories of living off the land, self-sufficiency, making things from scratch. Then I hit puberty and I was distracted by trying to find a mate, drowning my depression and anxiety in alcohol, and trying to make my parents proud of me by attempting to…
slowly she turned 