(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'm so proud of them! It took them about 15 minutes to get the hang of it. I need to get them both hooked up to the wagon at the same time, though, because the one not pulling is causing some mischief. I think they love it. Doesn't Bromley (first photo) look proud?
(A stop on my walk in the Harwich Conservation Land, Cape Cod)
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!
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.
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' :-)..
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