Baldwin City Art WalkFriday night

Baldwin City Art Walk

Friday night 7/16/2010
7-9 pm

Buy handmade!!!

It’s my first time to have a table at the art walk … …hope to see you there!



Jewelry, felted items, photography items, hand knitted items, handmade house hold items, Emily Dickinson picnic quilt, miniature gardens and more……

Working on top

My husband had to change out the antenna on the grain elevator the other night. The previous one had been damaged by the storms. (I was his assistant:)

Here he is on the tower...

and some shots from the top of the grain elevator.

I'm always amazed at the view, and yet it doesn't change from the other times I've gone up.

This is the elevator shaft....


And the hole we have to climb through to get on top.

I love going up, just not the process of going up and coming down.....

pictures from my week

walking photos ...

a miniature arbor to go in the next miniature garden.....

and a new miniature swing for my finished miniature garden

my daughter's life size garden ....

and her super cool find.... a vintage fireplace....

and while waiting to pick up my granddaughter I took a picture of three of my favorite things: my tattoo, my Tiffany bracelet, and my car......

Sidewalk pics

I'm addicted....more sidewalk shots....

Walking pictures

I've been walking a lot lately, which creates more opportunities for taking pictures. Here are some I've taken the past few days.

Urban Outfitters - Features - Original Icon Contest

Sunday I opened an email entitled call your mom from Urban Outfitters. They had a wonderful contest, Original Style Icons where people could submit pictures of their mothers. These are a few of my favorites......

Below is my own mother who was and still is a style icon. All of my friends had mom envy!

I am constantly being referred to as a hoarder. From the looks of these wonderful clothes, that could be a good thing. I hope my kids think of me as an original style icon. See more pictures from the contest here.

Urban Outfitters - Features - Original Icon Contest

Crossing to Safety

For years I've kept a common book where I copy down passages that I've read and want to remember. The week I went to Florida to see my dad in the hospital I started a new book, Crossing to Safety, by Wallace Stegner. A week and a half later I was back in Florida for my father's funeral. On the flight home I read this paragraph as I was finishing the book. In some twisted way it gave me peace.

"There's no decent literature on how to die. There ought to be, but there isn't. Only a lot of religious gobbledygook about being gathered to God, and a lot of biological talk about returning your elements to the earth. The biological talk is all right, I believe it, but it doesn't say anything about what religion is talking about, the essential you, the conscious part of you, and it doesn't teach you anything about how to make the transition from being to not-being. They say there's a moment, when death is certain and close, when we lose our fear of it. I've read that every death, at the end, is peaceful. Even an antelope that's been caught by a lion or a cheetah seems not to struggle at the end. I guess there's a big shot of some sedative chemical, the way there's a big shot of adrenaline to help it leap away when it's scared. Well, a shot will do for quick deaths. The problem is to get that same resignation to last through the weeks or months of a slow one, when everything is just as certain but can't be taken care of with some natural hypo."

Somehow, reading words that describe my fears, thoughts, and emotions, makes me feel connected rather than alone.