Before and after pictures with at least 1/4 of the bark still remaining after the work of the weekend.
And on a lighter note, the iris are blooming in our flower beds!
What's blooming in your yard?
(image from art in red wagons)
April is National Poetry Month and in honor of that... a challenge to revolve around poetry, but also include other forms of the written word, a favorite quote, or novel, or perhaps merely a special word. What inspires you, and how does it make you feel? Pour out those feelings artistically! Whether in oils, collage, watercolor, mixed media, photography, digital art... anything goes, just express it!Iris are fun to paint, and inspire me. So I decided to find a poem about iris and then paint one or two. Here is a poem about iris written by Edith Buckner Edwards in 1961:
Legend has it that long ago, hunger swept through the Native American tribes. As time passed slowly and food supplies dwindled, famine beckoned disease and death closer and closer. One day, a mother knelt in sorrow by the river, her children sick and dying. The Sun heard her cries of anguish and took pity on the mother, changing her tears to Bitterroot, that her people might never be hungry and sick again.Now I did not quite understand how the shawl looked like bitterroot. But it sounded like a nice legend, and it did have a methodical pattern to it, so I'll just put it together in my mind that way. Here are some pictures, but won't bore the post with how many beads were put onto it or how long it took to knit. All those details can be found here.
Hermione, as described in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter Series, is a rather smart and practical heroine. While she can dress up with the best of them, these socks remind me of something she might wear while practicing charms or transfiguration or reading up on Arithromancy in the Gryffindor Common Room.Well said. So I can wear these in any Common Room.
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