My mother's soft sculpture creations

Pocket dolls, bunnies, santa, and witches ... oh my!  And what now - clowns?

A Visit to the bookstore

The snow this morning was made of a cluster of flakes, perfect for catching on your tongue.

The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown

I finished reading this interesting book.  We had three in our family - two girls and one boy.   This book is about the interaction and lives of three sisters, whose father is a professor of Shakespearean studies and mother becomes ill with a life threatening disease.

I liked this line in the book as well as others:  "We were never organized readers, who would see a book through to its end in any sort of logical order.  We weave in and out of words like tourist ..."
- Eleanor Brown from "The Weird Sisters"

Not Spring, Yet!

Blooms of Spring Yellow
Daffodils, Forsythia
and Dandelions.

Zentangling

Thursday, I attended a workshop to introduce the concepts of Zentangle.  This seem like a fun concept.  To learn more about it check out www.zentangle.com

Sunrise

Yesterday morning the sunrise painted the clouds a lovely shade of pink rose.

More ... playing

Thank you Jane from http://janeville.blogspot.com/ for the inspiration.

Spring Snow

The view outside my window is covered in white ... again.  At least the sun comes out to melt the spring snow.

Playing

Thank you Carolee at http://kingofmicestudios.blogspot.com/ for inspiration.

Spring Wishes

On this first day of Spring, we have had overcast skies that are now dropping rain, and later this evening the possibility of snow.  But I am looking forward to spring blossoms, and the promise of sunny skies.

Here is hoping that your first day of Spring is filled with the promises of the season to come.

In today' gray skies
I search for inspiration
and find . . . a little.

Near my home a ravine of snow drops blooms each Spring

A patch of snow drops
blooms in a wooded ravine
in the melting snow.

Green petticoats peek

from under white petal skirts

as spring snow drops dance.

Snowdrops in bloom

After just three warm days, the snowdrops green heads have poked out from the edge of the snow and have bloomed.  Lovely white bell flowers edged in green with three oval white sepals dangle and dance from stem tops.

In the city, bright yellow crocus add sunshine to neighborhood gardens.

It is March, we are well aware that more snow will fly.  March in Utah brings all varieties of weather, but days like today foretell the arrival of Spring.

Serendipity

Watercolor hues
flow across dimpled paper
with an artist's brush.

More Fun with the Butterfly Punches

Watercolor Butterflies punched from
 a splattered sheet of paper.

Spring Runoff

Muddied waters carve
braided channels of runoff
as winter's snow melts.

Thanks Martha Stewart

I had a fun evening playing with my new butterfly punches and now I have a collection of butterfly confetti ready for more projects.

Spring?

The green tips of bulbs
push through the snow-dusted earth;
joyous signs of spring.

Bath time: Clean Hair & Haiku

Oh! Shampoo bubbles
Floating in my bath water,
Glisten, pink, green, blue.