Spring as a Muse

This week I managed to capture a young calico cat that I have been trying to catch for almost eight months. She spent the winter outdoors and wild with the exception of coming to me for food, but no touching! She was finally captured with the help of a Havahart trap...

Spring!

It seems as if spring has arrived. I awoke on Sunday morning to a light rain. Looking out the grass was greening. A flock of seven robins flew in; the first I had seen this year. They pecked happily at the ground. Amazingly, one was white with a red breast. The...

Finally completed

Here is the Horse with the Flowing Mane in his final form, on the wall in a frame, with a name “Shimmer”.

Horse with Flowing Mane

picture 1 – Wax applied with the tjanting tool for the third stage.picture 2 – This is the same batik ready to immersed in the dye bath.picture 3 – Now look at the horse as the batik emerges from the dye bath after being immersed and stirred for 1/2...

Spring!

Last week the fields changed from brown to white! The heavy snow fell softly and silently. All was so beautiful, shrouded in white, the branches low to the ground under the weight of the wet snow. A feeling that nowhere else existed but this quiet peaceful white...