Happy New Year!

These were taken yesterday. 

You'd think I was standing in a field or the woods, but I was at McDonalds, 

(Yes, they're open on New Year's day)

 because my son LOVES McD's fries. 

I just focused away from the cars and highways.

 And actually I didn't even leave the car,

 these were taken with a zoom through an open window. 

Are they less pretty now that you know?  

 My goal and word for the year... 

AWE...

 so hope you can find awe

 and share it every day!

feeling poetic

hello,
i want to apologize for my absence lately from blog land....
i have a million excuses and none
I just didn't have much to say for awhile...

I've been waiting in the wings

the wings of a blackbird

waiting for the colors of dusk

gathering shadows from the

snow filled ditches... 

My mandalas are changing,
Less color... I was and am inclined to add every color available as i paint but i don't like the look when they are done... So i decided to try to keep it simple and paint something i actually might want to look at later.

Rythmically complex

One color saturated

Self satisfying

I use my fingers to tap out syllables when i write haiku...

Also, i feel the need to change my blog and etsy shop so the falling ladies will be leaving for good.... I need a makeover for the New Year!

Thanks for stopping by and forgiving me for not visiting lately!

paint and Palette

Here's a few pages from my book of days... I did a spread of my goals and resolutions in circles, and the next pic shows my "palette" as I usually have only a few minutes hear and there to paint instead of a few hour stretch, so to save time and make it easy to pick up if I have to quit... I just paint right out of the bottle caps and mix colors either in the caps or on the painting. If I had longer I'd use better paints and a real palette, but for now it works!

(linking to paint and palette, you can click on the side bar to see more palettes)

This photo is of another page in my altered book that fits the theme at Butterefly effect of "Into the Woods".  When I heard the theme I expected to think of fairy-tale forests, nature goddesses, fairy houses, sweet dappled woods and such, instead I actually thought of a very real, very clear forest, the forest I seem to have designed in my plan for the year. Somehow I think I expected to write out my goals and they would appear, but now...

I've mapped out the woods, each tree by tree, yet I haven't seemed to have suddenly started to do Yoga more, or eat better or any of those things...

so how to enter the forest?

 that's my dilemma...

I guesss I just need to walk in,

one step at a time...

tree by tree...