So you think you can write?

(A stop on my walk in the Harwich Conservation Land, Cape Cod)

A party of amazing women rented Saturday Farm for a retreat and they are arriving on... Saturday :-) . They all met at a writers workshop by Joan Anderson. (Joan is the author of A Year By the Sea, An Unfinished Marriage and A Walk on the Beach.) I'm excited about their visit- Saturday Farm is perfect for artists and writers. This brings up thoughts about my writing insecurities, though. Of course, I've never claimed to be a writer. I keep journals and journals of poems, art, collage, dreams, and phrases that come into my head. I've been cleaning out the barn and I found a piece of paper with a bunch of words I wrote several years ago. I read it and thought, 'What IS this? Where did this come from? Is this some attempt at a poem, a story....? What kind of writer am I??? Who writes like this? Read it and tell me what you think. I seem to be lacking 'comments' (interaction) on this blog and I would love to hear from you.

Camelia writes of wrens while blue birds find ladies who fry
bacon in burnt pans in the alley with shoes and spiders and
love. How
many wrens fly kites over that alley?
How many times? And do they run into
other birds with their kites in the
rain? Yesterday. Yesterday it rained. It
rained in tear
drops rather salty on my face and in my hair - I had to use
swimmers shampoo to
get it out and even then it dried in pink streaks --

Hmm.. maybe from the
ink running off of the wrens'
kites.

I caught a fairy!

I could see her little toe peeking out from under the mat at Island Cottage. So, I lifted the mat and bingo! Here she is!

Fritz's Marbles

I haven't had a chance to take the Baa Brothers to Fritz Glass yet, but you must go. He is an amazing glass blower and you can watch him work right there in his shop. Fritz and his wife, June, are very friendly too. Hillary Rodham Clinton decorated the White House Christmas tree with his glass.
It is a long walk or very short drive from Saturday Farm on Upper County Road.
Here's his link
http://www.fritzglass.com/

Be kind to yourself and sweet dreams.

Saturday Farm roses

Roses pretty much surround Saturday Farm. The old rambling roses in the side yard are at their best right now so I took this picture today. It was a little overcast....

The Mermaid and the Dolphin

Here is the mermaid I painted for Island Cottage swimming with her friendly dolphin. {Yes, she is totally naked from the waist up :-). I had so many hits on my post about Harry's mom (see 'Totally Naked' ) I'm tempted to try another post with the same 2 words to see if the popularity was about my story, Harry's mom, or the words 'totally naked'. :-)) This mural is about 16 feet high and 20 or so feet wide. It took a lot of paint and I'm not done yet. I work on my murals whenever I'm in St. John. I hope you will plan to vacation at Island Cottage one day; then you can see her 'live' :-)..
See http://www.vrbo.com/108972 for more info on Island Cottage

Iced Tea with Mick Jagger

Today is shaping up to be the perfect picnic day. Harry and I are going to pack up a cooler, our beach umbrella and books. We might be at the beach all day. The gloriousness of the day reminds me of the day in my Iced Tea with Mick Jagger painting that we have in the stairway tower at Holly House.

Meanness and Grace

Does it seem to you that people are more gracious this year? Harry and I have the opportunity to meet a lot of people through friends, work, and vacation rentals. This year people have been more gracious than ever. It's wonderful. What have you noticed? I want to hear; please comment..
(The above mean photo is of my cat, Smudge. This was taken last year. She's a little sweeter this year :-) Below are photos of grace that I took at Watkins Farm, Jason and his granny, and a couple singing to each other at Pleasant Bay Nursing (where his granny is now).)