Thursday, September 29, 2011

national coffee day



it's national coffee day.....

like i need an excuse to drink more coffee.......

hook me up....i'll take mine intravenously.......


(image from pinterest)

Monday, September 26, 2011

sunray kelley



Want! Want! Want! one of these houses by Sunray Kelley..............


Friday, September 23, 2011

simple pleasures



"i lived in the wood until i was slain by the relentless axe. in life

i was silent....but in death my melody is exquisite."

~motto carved on a violin by luthier gasper duiffoprugcar


i watched a group of talented artisans make these at an 'old time' fiddlers convention

...held in a cow pasture by a creek... up in the north carolina mountains.

there was music...toe tapping...food...and fellowship aplenty.

simple pleasures....

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

my way..........



yep.......that's me!


found on pinterest

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

starlight freckles......

starlight freckles in a moonlit mountain sky.......

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

always someones puppet.....

"i've been a puppet...a pauper...a pirate...

a poet...a pawn and a 'queen'...

i've been up and down

and over and out....

and i know one thing...

each time i find myself flat on my face...

i pick myself up...

and get back in the race."


....do you ever feel like you're always someones puppet?


(graphics: the body farm, puppets, abandoned and rusty at deviantscrap)


Wednesday, September 7, 2011

what big eyes you have.....



Daniel Egneus has illustrated a retelling of Grimm's Red

Riding Hood. His art is magical.....



"her mind lives in a quiet room...

a narrow room...and tall...

with pretty lamps to quench the gloom

and mottoes on the wall.


there all the things are waxen neat

and set in decorous lines...

and there are posies...round and sweet...

and little straightened vines.


her mind lives tidily...apart

from cold and noise and pain...

and bolts the door against her heart...

out wailing in the rain."





these words speak of my world.....






Tuesday, September 6, 2011

thanks to schools.......

"if there were no schools to take children

away from home part of the time...

the insane asylums

would be filled with mothers."


~edgar w. howe




(graphics from finecraftedDesign)

Friday, September 2, 2011