“Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.”

- Leonardo da Vinci

I went to bed with two portraits waiting to dry and woke up around 2 a.m. and decided, "Hey! I can do another layer!" With great happiness, I've done that now and I'm very satisfied with how they're turning out. One is a watercolor Selkie and the other is a ( Read more... )

Yesterday, when Aria called, she excitedly opened with, "Guess what day it is, Grandma!"

I said, "The day I finished law school!!"

"No! It's Ostara!" I looked blank, I'm sure. "You know, the EQUINOX!"  That was followed by a 15 minute Aria lecture on the Goddess Ostara followed by a dramatic telling of "Ostara and the Hare", and an Aria speech on ( Read more... )

Aria has been calling me when she's on her lunch break at school. She's still remote learning. Today she was eating macaroni and cheese for lunch, and raved about it. I grabbed my lunch, too, tuna fish salad on lettuce, and we ate together while we talked.

I made a blueberry cake yesterday that was so packed full of blueberries that I had to show ( Read more... )