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Maria's chickens!

Latte stands of nimbostratusland

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This person printed 15,000 of these bubble stickers and place them on top of ads all over New York City. Passersby fill them in. See the results here!

Pooches horoscope

If you don't have your pooches horoscope , run, don't walk your fingers over these keys, click and fill in the proper blanks so that you will know how to take the best care of your doggie's day. Should he walk today, or not? Should he visit a friend? Shoud he get intimate, and with whom? Is it a good time to kennel him, or shoud you get a house sitter? Find some answers here!

Pooches horoscope

Reflections on friends....Linda

Linda is my talented astrology friend. She is an Aquarian, like me. sharp woman, very sharp, and she knows a lot. She can be the most wonderful person, and yet she can make people so mad with her aggressiveness.
But I always have to love her!

She is quite aware that she can be very aggressive, and controlling. I like it when I can actually have a disagreement with a friend and get angry, and still know we will be friends. In fact I think that disagreements are part of any relationship with any depth, importance, or ability to be considered friendship.

It is particularly easy with her. I admit sometimes I have to back off for a while because I just think she might need to find another friend besides me. She knows that I will take her criticism, ...for a bit. Then I have enough, and seek space. That is fine with me. So I enjoy her as long as it is enjoyable, draw a line, and then later resume the friendship. we always enjoy seeing one another, and can relate very well having some things so much in common as airy Aquarians.

My partner is an Aquarian as well, unstructured, and a total flake! He is precious, an angel in many ways, in other ways, he is a narcissist, unable to empathize with me at all, because life is all about him. He is controlling in a way that is just plain devious! And unlike Linda, he is completely unaware of his devices. He is like a big puppy, and the kind of person everyone likes, but who no one really knows. He is shallow in his relationships, knowing just what to say about the weather, but can't go much deeper than that with anyone but me. I am his best and only friend. He relates to women, not to men. He is a big lug, but when I met him, he had a Gods body, and I was quite taken by his great legs.

This relationship is real solid! HAHA!

Oh well, it is what it is, He drives me nuts, I drive him nuts! I am completely tired of him, but we hike together, travel together, spend most of our time together, Gawd! I need a break!

I can't say this relationship is going to last. I want major changes, and he is not about to change, he has always been flakey, of course, he always will be. He won't make any kind of healthy changes for himself or us, and I see this as spiraling downwards, and I can do nothing about it, except leave, and I will if I must.

We are basically friends now, not much more than that. He can laugh at anything I say to him, a big improvement over my previous husband, who just couldn't laugh at any of my jokes, of course they had some truth to them, jokes aren't funny without an element of truth. He passed them out, but couldn't take it back.

I was with him forever, and it was a total mismatch, there was nothing there! I still have no idea who he is, he is truly from a completely other planet than me, and although he speaks English, it may as well be Pleadian, there was not one moments understanding between us, not one! And further more, I don't think anyone he would be involved with would ever speak his language, he hides himself completely. Acts like Joe Cool, but who the hell is he? Does anybody know?

This friend thing began yesterday when I wrote about a friend from my past, then I visited Linda yesterday, and we had a great visit, as usual. I guess it provided food for thought concerning friends, what they are about, and aren't about, who I am, and who I am not. I am sure my friends would have a few choice things to say about me as well! Yikes!

Smiling now, ~ we aren't perfect are we?

Just received an e-mail from Linda, a note about yesterday, an opportunity to barter some of my work for some of her work, We do that a lot! Thank you Linda, for being my friend, too!

Ambrosia for the human soul

Dusted with first snow, these peaks also studded with golden larches stand majestically against a piercing blue fall sky.

Ambrosia for the human soul.

The fresh smell of fir trees in brisk cold air invigorates my senses.

The sun makes it presence fully known warming the body in such a way that you are not taking it for granted, you cannot help but reflect on how suddenly the entire planet would die without it's warmth, as you stand here in this raw place fully exposed to the elements.


A 4 hour drive from my home NE of where I live, this is Washington Pass.

My trip this weekend was to Winthrop and Twisp. By a, "twisp," of fate, Winthrop was a full town, so we drove to Twisp and had dinner at the pub, and heard music by a Whidbey Island band, and spent the night in Carlton. The pub was very crowded with people from the area and some of the people who live there weekends.

The small town of Twisp is made up of artisans and musicians, and now these new breeds who build 10,00 sq ft cabins to weekend over in.

We come here winter to snowshow and enjoy the wildlife, which we saw plenty of this weekend; deer crossing the roads.



These Mountains were photographed at about 5,800 feet. Once one connected moutain,two glaciers joined together here and carved out this valley.


more photos of my home here and here come on in out of the weather

A very very uncoffeepot

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Don't forget to keep giving

Reminder to plant your good karma seed, illustration by Kim Carney!
Good news, artists making art to help katrina Lets keep it up!
There are still many needs to help Katrina victims. Flickr.com recently had 2 auctions to help raise money for Katrina, and this artist is using Ebay.
Don't forget Potters Rebuilding New Orleans, one of my favorites that is starting up! make your offerings here.

What is real......is not

What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things . . . it is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially real by imitating its exterior surface."~ Brancusi "Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing." ~ Marc Chagal "We work not only to produce but to give value to time." ~ Eugene Delacroix "If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all." ~ Michelangelo "Painting is just another way of keeping a diary." ~ Pablo Picasso "I am an artist... I am here to live out loud." ~ Emile Zola