Happy July Fourth Weekend!
I hope you’ll have plenty of time outdoors with loved ones and plenty of watermelon.
We’ve been fortunate to have family and friends coming and going, and there are more visits planned as the month goes along, mainly on weekends. So I’ll be taking a wee blog break here for the rest of July and will jump back in on August 14. I will come virtually visit you all in the meantime, though -- if not always on the actual Friday!
I have a longer post over at artsyletters today, featuring a box of wooden blocks, and a box of necks, among other things. (That got your attention! I hope you’ll click over.)
Speaking of my studio, it’s upstairs in a historic building in the middle of downtown. I usually go in and out through the back. This time of year, an old fig tree - completely unobtrusive the rest of the year - takes over the universe. I was invited to help myself to her bounty last year, and I was happy to. The figs end up falling off everywhere, half-eaten by birds and bugs.
But I wonder of the birds might resent that, just a little bit…
My apologies to William Carlos Williams :
This is Just to Say to the Downtown Birds
I have taken
the figs
that hang over
the back stairs
and which
you were planning
to peck
for breakfast
Forgive me
they were easy
to pluck
and so
very
sweet
For all kinds of poetic bounty today, please visit the delightful Donna at Mainely Write.
I hope you’ll have plenty of time outdoors with loved ones and plenty of watermelon.
We’ve been fortunate to have family and friends coming and going, and there are more visits planned as the month goes along, mainly on weekends. So I’ll be taking a wee blog break here for the rest of July and will jump back in on August 14. I will come virtually visit you all in the meantime, though -- if not always on the actual Friday!
I have a longer post over at artsyletters today, featuring a box of wooden blocks, and a box of necks, among other things. (That got your attention! I hope you’ll click over.)
Speaking of my studio, it’s upstairs in a historic building in the middle of downtown. I usually go in and out through the back. This time of year, an old fig tree - completely unobtrusive the rest of the year - takes over the universe. I was invited to help myself to her bounty last year, and I was happy to. The figs end up falling off everywhere, half-eaten by birds and bugs.
But I wonder of the birds might resent that, just a little bit…
My apologies to William Carlos Williams :
This is Just to Say to the Downtown Birds
I have taken
the figs
that hang over
the back stairs
and which
you were planning
to peck
for breakfast
Forgive me
they were easy
to pluck
and so
very
sweet
For all kinds of poetic bounty today, please visit the delightful Donna at Mainely Write.