HuMp DaY Haiku – Stand out

Scary as it feels

just hold firm to your beliefs!

Stand out in the crowd.

Resist societal pressure to conform. Be true to yourself even if it means being the only red flower among a field of orange. You can do it! Stand out in the crowd!

I have found that creating a haiku (non rhyming poem with 5 – 7 – 5 syllables per line) feeds my soul. I especially like creating them to go with my photos and art. 

Would you like to share a haiku you have written?  

You may include a haiku in the comments, OR you may copy your blog post url (featuring a haiku) and add a link to your blog using Mr. Linky. Consider visiting other contributors blogs to see what they’ve created and say hello. 

It's Spring, it's Spring!

Yay, it’s officially Spring! The weather hasn’t quite figured it out, but I know and that makes the cold rainy weather almost bearable.

Thinking Spring flowers… here’s a little piece I’ve mostly finished using the gesso and watercolor technique from Carla Sonheim’s Flower Crazy class (link in sidebar).

Yellow crocus. 

Have I mentioned I LOVE this class? It takes me awhile to get anything completed (my excuse is that the gesso takes a while to dry, and so I get distracted with some other project. *laugh*). However I AM slowly completing the projects, and having great fun with the techniques.

Here is the closer-to-done-WIP that I shared last week in it’s white out stage.

Abstract Roses

I have shading to finish, and finalizing the leaves, although I’m not sure quite WHAT I’m going to do with the leaves quite yet. And then other fixing of odd little bits. If I’m lucky, I’ll get it done tomorrow. 🙂

Thanks for stopping by!

Spring is on the way!

Late winter garden

Fairy bells poke up their heads

Spring is on the way! 

Still blooming

Most of my summer flowers have finished their blooming, However these lovely hardy fuchsias are still going strong. They do encourage me. And the leaves are starting to change, so the colors of nature continue.

So much to do, so little time. I’m wondering how I’ll have time to sleep with all I need to get ready for the Allied Arts Holiday Festival… a booth to get assembled, art to get finished, and very little time to do it all with my work schedule this month. O.o
My Etsy shops are keeping me hopping too; a good thing!

And so, you’ll see very little of me here for a short while. Our Hump Day Haiku will continue, but probably not much more than that until I feel like I’m ready for the show.

Cheers!

HuMp DaY Haiku – Carolyn's Garden

Carolyn’s Garden

filled with blooms and garden art

quiet cousin time

Cousin Paula hosted our “cousin’s reunion” this past weekend, close to home in Skagit Valley, a mere 30 minute drive away. We drove back and forth since our little motorhome isn’t running well. The reunions are always a good time. We did a lot of visiting, playing with little kids we don’t see often enough, eating, more visiting, silent auction, sitting around the fire pit visiting and making ‘smores… fun times, even though it was chilly. It was a delightful weekend with the perfect mix of people!

Of course, I took virtually no pictures, even though I had my camera. Sunday morning, when I arrived, it was quiet in Carolyn’s garden while the others were making their breakfast. I wandered with my cell phone and took a few pictures. I love the art and flowers in her garden, and isn’t the garden shed cool? 

More on the reunion later, but now it’s time for HuMp DaY Haiku!  

 

I started doing Hump Day Haiku with Carla Sonheim’s Silly classes…  and decided as a challenge for myself, I’d continue.  In this process, I have found that creating a haiku (non rhyming poem with 5 – 7 – 5 syllables per line) feeds my soul. I especially like creating them to go with my photos and art. 

Would you like to share a haiku you have written? 

You may include a haiku in the comments, OR you may copy your blog post url (featuring a haiku) and add a link to your blog using Mr. Linky. And consider visiting other contributors blogs to see what they’ve created and say hello. 

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HuMp DaY Haiku – Stand out

 Showing
your colors

As you stand out from the
crowd.

Let your true self shine!

I noticed this red zinnia in a field of orange at a recent lunchtime visit to my husbands work. one must take opportunities when they arise.  

I started doing Hump Day Haiku with Carla Sonheim’s Silly classes…  and decided as a challenge for myself, I’d continue.  In this process, I have found that creating a haiku (non rhyming poem with 5 – 7 – 5 syllables per line) feeds my soul. I especially like creating them to go with my photos and art. 

Would you like to share a haiku you have written? 

You may include a haiku in the comments, OR you may copy your blog post url (featuring a haiku) and add a link to your blog using Mr. Linky. And consider visiting other contributors blogs to see what they’ve created and say hello. 



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Apron art

I’ve started a new part time job at our local art and craft store, and was given a blank apron to decorate as I wished. The only requirement was to include my name on it somehow. A blank canvas! O.o

I decided I wanted it to reflect my love for nature, and this is the almost completed project:

I used Lumiere paints, watered down to give a more water color effect for the grasses and sky. These were not the flowers I intended, however a blop had to be corrected and this is what evolved. My name tag will be a bird… I decided not to paint it on the apron, at this point anyway.

Jumping in late with Paint Party Friday, hosted by Kristin and Eva. Do visit to see what the other fabulous artists have created.

Bright blossoms

I took my husband his lunch today. He works alone (weekends) at the nursery this time of year, so a lunch visit is appreciated. I was treated to a tour of a few of the green houses, and the cyclamen was blooming in a variety of colors. 

These pretty pink ones caught my eye. As did the heart shaped leaves.  

Lovely pink blossoms

brightening a winter day

cheerful cyclamen 

I’d like to invite you to come back on Wednesdays for Hump Day Haiku, which I started doing with Carla Sonheim’s Silly Classes. I’d love to see what haiku you may have to share!

Linking to:
Lisa’s Chaos-Macro Monday

Ruby Tuesday

Guest Heart Thursday

Share the Joy Thursday

A memory garden – dia de bloglandia

This is the first year I’ve formally observed Dia de los Muertos, which I’m celebrating with Rebecca and Stephanie at dia de bloglandia.  While I did not complete the shrine I started, it occurred to me that our backyard garden contains a variety of reminders of our family who have passed.

 

My husbands father was an avid gardener. He died before we married, and I so wish I’d have had more time to get to know him. His garden contained these lovely Autumn sedum. 

My husbands mother was generous with her gardening knowledge and shared a variety of plants from her garden. This yarrow became quite invasive, (and a bit of a joke).  However, after her death, it became a constant reminder of her generous love.

The love in a mist came from seeds from my Auntie Ruth, several years before she died. She was always generous with her seeds, and told us some of the seeds she shared were from plants originally given her by my Grandma Rose. 

The frog statues in my garden remind me of my Auntie Rosemary, who told me once that frogs were protection. I’ve had one at my front door and throughout our garden since. 

This angel sign was a gift from my daughter, and is something I continue to cherish in her memory.

Celebrating All Souls Day and Dia de los Muertos with 

 Rebecca and Stephanie at dia de bloglandia. 

Rain drops

Recent rain left puddle on the leaves of the nasturtium.

The nasturtium that is taking over the new raised bed herb garden. You can barely see the chives and parsley that is underneath. I love how they crawl around as they grow, but this is getting a bit scary! LOL!
At least the cool summer and lots of rain is good for some plants in the garden.
Now to get a ripe tomato…

August Break 2011