Showing posts with label kayaking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label kayaking. Show all posts

Sunday, August 23, 2015

Summer Feet + Many Summer Things = ...

To see the summer sky 
is poetry, 
though never in a book it lie
—
true poems flee—


Emily Dickinson, c.1879

My summer...


I have spent many hours 
sitting 
in this front porch turquoise chair...


sometimes sketching van Gogh in thirty minutes or less.

[marker, sharpie, oil sticks & mineral spirits, q-tips]

I gave it the title, 
Someone stole her beer so now she's even more depressed.


The sun
sneaks in.


An evening stroll down the hill.



August leaf drop.



Visitors.


Invaluable time spent.



Handstands with friends.


Summer in the city.


Riding the MAX.


Interesting compositions.


Cycling in the Columbia Gorge,
this has to be the greenest place on earth.


Bridge of the Gods.


A light summer shower = slippery cycling on the bridge.


Secret spots in the forest...



where I do quiet things...


things that soothe my temperament...



things that allow my breath to
replenish...


things like this.


Sailboat summer
breakfast.


Sailing + Dawn = a new relationship, lots to learn.


Gorge paddling on the Columbia River.


City kayaking on the Columbia River.


Ya know...
Now that I have all this listed I realized...
this is a typical summer week.

Once the rain sets in in autumn...
I will retreat indoors...
sorta.
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A donation for Vashon Allied Arts on Vashon Island, WA.

Autumn = time to get back to making art.
[but that's not quite here yet]
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Saturday, October 11, 2014

It Ended w/a Panel


Today I made this...
a masonite 3ft. x 4ft. panel
for encaustic wax & ink

but before that...


last Sunday
I took my friend on a stick
[long story]
kayaking on the Columbia...


two days later...
went kayaking
beneath the full blood moon...


and took some photos
drawing with the moonlight...


two days after...
I bought a sailboat...
[that deserves a name]


the next day...
I added some fabric bunting
to construction site
welding walls
for an event for work...
[a duct tape and staple gun extravaganza]

[did a little yoga too]


after the event and
a night on the boat...
[awesomeness]

I headed home
grabbed some power tools...


cut some wood...


made said panel...


and
stared at it 
while the sunset,
as I mentally prepared 
for tomorrow.
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amazing work well documented...