slowly she turned
Living the Slow life in North Carolina
Category: Visual journal 2014
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Today the big snowstorm began. We haven’t had a significant amount of winter weather in years, so everybody is very excited. I worry about my 90 year old mother, who is a three hour drive away. She is without power but has a woodstove and a pile of wood inside. She says that she is…
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A woven cloth square with a soy batik sample that I made in one of Melanie Testa’s classes long ago.
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It snowed today, but nothing stuck. It was just pretty. The crystal ball gazers say that we’ll get several inches on Wednesday and everybody is excited and checking the forecast every few minutes. We drive the Yankees crazy.
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On this day I cleaned out my closet and stuffed a couple of garbage bags full of gently used clothes to donate somewhere. I also very carefully cleaned my grandmother’s quilt, which is very raggedy and an unfortunate shade of pink: I love the old fabrics, which I am guessing are from the 1930s but…
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First Friday at GreenHill Gallery and the City Arts Center. Local students had a stunning installation of figures made from clear packing tape – “We Have a Dream: The March on Washington Packing Tape Project.” Description from http://downtownfridays.com/listings: “African American Atelier Inc. – 200 N. Davie Street In celebration of Black History Month, the Atelier…
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I am not familiar with this kind of oak and need to research it. It has such interesting acorn caps.
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I love this church building, especially the roof angles and windows.
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Ginkgo trees are different because they are so ancient.
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Retro blogging, again.
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Lucy is quite camera shy for some reason. I usually turn off the flash so I don’t know why. Pablocito (here) and Diego get very excited when I change the sheets on the bed. Lucy was actually interacting with Pablo, who was under the sheets rolling around. This is a good sign. This is going…
slowly she turned 