Fran Meneley The Longmont Studio Tour was a great success this past weekend. Stephnanie put up the sign out in her lovely side yard announcing we were open for business… …at the lovely Mango Studio. Brochures were laid out for the neighborhood tour… …as Olive stood guard doing her best to be incognito. I am not a dog person … Continue Reading
sweet love deep love everyday love passionate love forever love our love This past week we celebrated our 20th wedding anniversary. I made this little painting for my husband who is an inventor, an explorer, passionate about his work, fierce protector of his family, my biggest fan and all around great guy. I was inspired … Continue Reading
I've been working on finishing up some more canvases for the upcoming Longmont Studio Tour that will be held September 19 and 20. I'll be sharing space at Stephanie's wonderful Mango Studio. A trip to her studio is completely worthy of a stop and on top of that we'll have many fine pieces of affordable art to offer … Continue Reading
As all good synchronicity plays out, I was listening to NPR the day after I posted about my new tree friends, when this lovely story about the ancient trees in Great Britain came over the air waves. According to the forester being interviewed, ancient is older than 100 years. Some of Great Britain's oldest trees … Continue Reading
I am joining in on a photography collaboration hosted by JeriAnn at Commuters Journal and Julie at The Land of Lost Luggage. The idea is that participants will photograph a favorite or special tree(s) and post three times over the course of the year – August, November and April – I'm thinking a deep winter one too. Anyway, check in … Continue Reading
On a late July evening we had the pleasure of attending this year's Outstanding In The Field dinner again at the Munson Farm in Boulder (see last year's blog entry, here). We'd had such a cool and rainy summer, we hoped that those dark clouds would just stay as cloud cover. Looking back at the mountains … Continue Reading
We bought a fixer-upper. Not this one, but I loved this postcard from my collection. Kind of gives the feel of what we are dealing with. We probably won't move in until next summer, and we are still in the design phase of the remodel, but the details of remodeling are numerous. We have a … Continue Reading
Part of our workshop experience in Taos was about roaming around. We spent a morning walking in the early morning light out to the Morada that sits adjacent to the Mabel Dodge Luhan house. These long shadows make their own dance on the pavement as we headed out. These absolutely gorgeous Morning Glories caught … Continue Reading
Last winter I participated in the Disintegration Collaboration (DisCo), with Seth Apter of The Altered Page. Those of us that participated created bundles (in my case flags because apparently I need remedial reading and didn't read the "bundles" part) to be left out in the winter weather – the idea being that the elements would alter … Continue Reading
Back from a week at Sas Colby's summer workshop in Taos – and it was everything I had hoped it would be. Lots of art making, new and old friends, cold, limey, salty margaritas at the Taos Inn, starry nights and the magic that is northern New Mexico. As you know, I can't resist these traffic … Continue Reading