Love the Questions

Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live with them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer. 

Rainer Maria Rilke

 

Quote for the day

Do not let the future be held hostage by the past.

Rock Garden

We redid the rock garden near the green house last year... and re-planted a bit of sedum. It went a bit crazy, crawling over the rocks, and is blooming beautifully this year. I love it!

We also have foxglove all about the yard. We never know for sure where it's going to re-seed itself, and sometimes move them out of the way. We didn't realize this one was going to be so big and left it where it was... next to the water faucet by the potting bench. It's six and half feet tall right now and growing. We just work around it.

Playing with Beeswax

Wandering the Trails of Fort Ebey

There were incredible native rhododendrons all over... tall and loaded with blooms.

It was like walking fairy trails... the salal and ferns create a hidden path to follow.

View from the Bluff Trail, headed back from the beach toward the campground... a long uphill trail.

This tree had the most interesting twist... it was near the group camp area.

View headed from the group camp area back to the battery. The wind was blowing and you could hear the bell on the buoy ringing as we hiked.

My Favorite Hiker

He loves taking me out for longer-than-I-thought-they-were-going-to-be hikes... :)

Second Place!

I just found out I was second place winner in a monthly Artist Trading Card contest on atcsforall.com. The theme was Layers. I created this by layering torn papers and tissues with matte medium, stamping images, painting lines and dots, tinting with re-inker, layering a napkin image of a black bird (I think it's a starling...eek!) and blending all together with beeswax.