Wild Women August 5

August 5

Women everywhere think deeply

A common bond about gender equality.

Wild Women August 4

August 4

Life as an adventure

Troublesome, discouraged, difficult, criticized.

Wielding a power.

Guiding Spirit was sufficient. 

Wild Women August 3

August 3

Good women

unafraid to live to the fullest

Fabulous reality!  

Wild Women August 2

August 2

Diverse Experience!

Opportunities!

Greater Risks!

Explore Excitement!  

What happened to this blog?!

Posting to a blog is work!  As a retired person, work is not what I want to do so a year has passed by with nothing written because I was lazy. That's my story.

August 2018 is here with a new energy to be creative.  I have started a project that is combining some art and some poetry.  The project involves taking a page from an old worn paperback book and drawing, painting, coloring or otherwise decorating the page but also circling some words along the page that will make a poem or just random thoughts.

The book I have chosen for this is Wild Women of the Old West edited by Glenda Riley and Richard W. Etulain from 2003.    It is a book I picked up  somewhere in Colorado (probably at a local museum in a small town) just for something to read.    I read the book and it has sat on the bookshelf for 15 years and just recently this book along with others was  in a stack that was going to be throw out or donated to the junk store.   Then this creative idea was brought to my attention so I said "what the heck, I can do that with one of these books."   I decided to use this book because I am going to keep the wild women theme in the poems.   Words about strong women who make their own way and do what they have to do to make a life.   This work will make me use some watercolors, markers and colored pencils and some other things that have been sitting in the box since last summer. 

   I have given myself a deadline, 30 days or all of August, to complete this project.    I am making a good start as I was fired up and got a few pages done already.   Very amateurish but done!   So I have about 25 more to do.  

Now the blog will become a daily posting.   I will post a page a day and the only words written will be the poem.    Maybe my artistic ability will improve and maybe the words will resonate with others.  It will be a learning experience which is always good. 


August 1

Wild Women

Freedom to try different roads

Monuments to feminine ideals. 

Hello! Time flies when you're having fun!

April through June just passed me by! 

 And what a couple of months it was!

 I spent the last of March and early part of April traveling the state of Arizona with photographer friends, Joyce and Diane. 

 We wandered 2400 miles across the state seeing the sights from Phoenix north to Sedona and the Grand Canyon, South to the Painted Desert, the Petrified Forest and Tucson with so many stops at other places along the way.  These photos are from  Antelope Canyon which was my favorite  place of all we visited. 
The pinkish sandstone caverns are under the earth 
and we were in the cavern for almost 2 hours.  

It was spectacular and makes me very aware of how small and insignificant we really are when 
compared to this planet we call home.

Water caused the many swirls and lines found in the canyon.

It also washed out holes and made amazing sculptures.

The pathway in the slot, some rooms were large,

 some areas we had to move almost sideways to get through.

Arizona is known for its cacti!  And wow, were they blooming!

May found me in North Carolina where we enjoyed

 a new location and home for Tate and his family in a mountain valley.

  I love the mountains of North Carolina!

 Looking east from the front porch 

watching the sun come up!

June was another traveling month as Joyce and I made our way up along the Blue Ridge Parkway from Asheville to Boone.   Hiking, photography and enjoying the scenery of the mountains.

Did I say I love mountains!?

Even in the fog and clouds!

Because I know the light will always get through!

Being at home while the heat of the summer

 is upon us is a time for being lazy, thinking about

and planning for other adventures in the future.

After all, there are always new things to see 

and always a new photo to take!  But some things are 

right here in my own backyard. 

All I have to do is just open my eyes and see!

Wonder and magic is everywhere!

Hello March!

March 18

February came with its Promise of Spring...





Tiny buds on a treee,  pushing themselves open

Leaves unfurling and stretching out

                                                 Flower buds showing off their color





Tiny spring flowers pushing up from their winter's sleep

While tiny creatures come out of hiding to warm themselves in the sun

               Field of daffodils where horses frolic in the warm spring sunshine...


                  And then there came March, full of blooms, butterflies and bees...

Until that day, March decided it would surprise us!

March shared with us two seasons!

Wondering what April will bring!