one of my favorite melodies

rain on rock and soft patters on flat water

exuberance

can you hear the laugh and call coming from the forest?

She has so many faces

soft and warm in summer flowing over the tideflats making delicious swimming
or dark and grey covered with chop
I find her beautiful in all of her guises
This place is very close to home

Wind rocks the heart

[…]

the land
is different
when you have lived there
wandered

sweated
frozen

seen the sun
set rise
disappear return

the land is different
when you know
here are roots
ancestors

Nils-Aslak Valkeapää

I am a Daughter of the Northwind

My grandmothers were born of the Northwind.
Their roots slip back through distant time to Scandinavia and found ancient path deep into North American earth […]

Ancient sentinels
watchers of the West

when it rains….when it is too cold to work in the studio….when it is too hot….
or simply when…

Undercliff

I move away from the big paintings, take small squares of paper and my paints onto the covered patio, or under my Ash tree.
I listen
to the Rain, the Wind, Empty Space and who […]

Reds of Evening
Reds of evening
fires of delight along the path

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Rain walking

rain drumming
on my parka hood

Lost in Mist

mist laying down glitter

among the grasses
and diamonds on the leaves

soft rain and mist

Misty Trail

secret paths
that disappear in the sun

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Bells
on the garden gate
clacking
every-so-often in the wind
copper on brass
Listening in the black night
I am hearing other bells
on the otherside of the world
otherside of my life
cow bells
clanking greeting
on soft May-green slopes
goat bells, sheep bells
tinkling, clinking
woven in the dreamer’s wind