Thanksgiving is always wonderful, even when it doesn’t include ALL the people I want to spend it with.
This year we again spent the day with an old friend at her house… other good friends going way back through various incarnations of our life in Montana were there. The age range was 21 to 87, the food was great and the conversation far reaching. I miss being with immediate family at Thanksgiving, especially my daughter and her husband. This was the first year Nancy’s adult children couldn’t come home, so it was good for all of us to be together.
One of these years we’ll be able to add a fourth generation to the mix.
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In preparation for the gifting season, I am producing three suites of hand altered photographs, in extremely limited editions.
“Winter Suite” is now up on Gallery 3. “Autumn Suite” and Spring/Summer will go up this weekend. Here are just two of the Winter photos:
In other news, the studio clean-out continues, and it is still a mess. It is at the point now where the things to be gotten rid of will be donated or put into the Guild loop and the rest (that I am keeping) has a space in which to live. I have not begun to sort the papers and works on paper… maybe soon.
Beau misses going to school and the advanced class doesn’t begin until January.
I hope I can keep him busy and on track until then. The dogs next door have not been helping. They are 9 month old pit bull pups, sisters, and have no manners yet. They are smart and have learned that somewhere/somehow, there is a way to get from their yard into Beau’s. They repeat this learned behavior at every opportunity. This weekend is dedicated to fixing the fencing to cut down on the chaos. I worry about them bull-dozing Sam, who is old and arthritic. I worry about them knocking me over (two bad knees and only one good wrist right now, I’d have trouble getting up!) It has also been proven that once they are in this yard, they can get out, into the street and get into who knows what sort of trouble. We’ve been working with the neighbors to find a way to get this situation under control. So far… no success. Maybe tomorrow.
The samples of various techniques with un-spun fibers are winging their way to London for photography. Wish them well. Here’s a fuzzy photo of a fuzzy sample
and some weird photos of the other inhabitants of my domain:
and now I’m off to other chores.
Enjoy the weekend!