Exhuastion

6+ hours of practice a day, team activities, not enough sleep (my bed creaks every time I move and wakes me up), soreness!!! Ah, the joys of volleyball preseason!!! It makes me slow to post about other cool things I'm doing, which include reading a fantastic book about goats, visiting Carl Sandburg's birthplace, and decorating my sophomore year dorm room! So soon, when I don't have 2-a-day practices, I will get around to it!

New silkscreens!

The drawings

Painted onto the screen with screen drawing fluid

After screen filler and a wash

The final product! On fabric.

I designed these two silkscreens to be used on shirts; the "soldier of the soil" for the front and the hands holding dirt for the back. They came out a little funky (bad choice to make silkscreens when it's hot and humid...) but I like that they look weather-beaten. Maybe if I get around to an etsy shop one of these days, we can all join the ranks of the land army by wearing this as part of our uniform, along with overalls, carhartts, or crapped up jeans. I'm almost done with a Farmerette one...

(Sorry for the poor picture quality, the weather has been ever so grey and crummy!)

Garden Haikus

One day while in our morning rotation to the art, we learned how to write haikus while sitting in the garden. The kids came up with great ones! Here are mine:

(5-7-5)

Chickens frighten me

but still their feathers in the sun

dazzle white brown black

Black eyes susans loud

yellow bright against green stem

black pupil staring

Beets are golden joy

I absolutely love them

Can I eat some now?

(for Erin)

Sunflowers growing

reaching towards the blue sky

I hope you see them

Feeding myself, momentarily

In between camp and school, I have a week of feeding myself! So I promptly boiled some beets and made a beet, tiny carrot (thinned from the garden in Vermont), romaine, and goat cheese salad.

It twas delicious!!! I miss making food for myself. Only three years left of cafeteria food, and I am home free.

Kalidescope

Life through another lens, trees remade.

Farewell...

...to Farm and Wilderness for another year.

A place where I planted myself years ago, where I have grown a stem, roots, and another leaf each summer.

I've heard all the songs that the children sing

And listened to love's melodies

Felt my own music within me rise

Like wind in the autumn leave

(River by Bill Staines)