Drawing board – no pictures of actual pieces yet

To forestall possible speculation that I'm not actually working or making anything original…. I'm currently working on a series of series of small pieces (yes, you read that right), designed to be hung as groups. The basic theme is The East Coast Trail and the foundations of the pieces are going to be my own…

Round the Bay Part I – Salmon Cove & Carbonear

When asked what I wanted to do for Mother's Day by my wonderful husband, I said that I wanted an outing, with hiking, a picnic, some photographs and happy people. He said he could do most of those, but the last one might be problematic, given that The Daughter has turned into The Fiend lately…

Diem well carped. Sans fish. Some photos.

It rained for a week or more. The ground was soggy. The air moist and we were going stark raving mad with cabin fever. So we decided to go swimming this morning. Apparently, while a good IDEA, swimming is a scary, miserable, rotten and angst-inspiring REALITY for Katherine. She went to bed talking about going…

I could get addicted to this….

I took another solo jaunt this weekend, this time sans kid, husband and dogs, and headed out to the Waterwitch section of the East Coast Trail between Cape St. Francis and Pouch Cove. I didn’t go all that far, not having really intended to go hiking and therefore not having on the proper footwear for…

Warm, wet weekend

I wrote this once and my geriatric computer couldn’t handle working just one more second while it saved and so I’m now writing it again. Hopefully as well as before. The weekend was unseasonably warm and, not being fools, we decided to drop the normal housework and take full advantage of being able to wear…