Someone's in The Kitchen With Dinah...

...and they are NOT "Strummin' on the ol' banjo"!!!

This is my 4 page spread in Juli's Moly

"In the Kitchen"

for the 2012 Illustrated ATC G8 Moleskine exchange.

Sometime in late summer

"she" will make her way home to Juli

 in Canada...:)

"Fee Fi...Fiddlily Aye Oh"...:)

Click on images to enlarge...especially the last one.

Enjoy!

If you can't stand the heat...

get out of the kitchen."

~Harry S. Truman

I Have Been "Chromed" Under Protest...

...and I am absolutely hating every minute of it!!!

It has taken me over an hour this afternoon to upload

this new blog page today.

Why, you might ask???

Well,

I just have come find out that,

during my latest blog world absence,

Blogger has changed.

Errrgh!

Let me tell you...in my current "blog slug" persona

this is not being accepted as a

positive change.

Sooo...

I was first required to install to "Google Chrome"

to add this page.

This was it not easy on my sporadic and unreliable

internet connection.

But,

after a call to Cox cable...and a modem reboot...

I was soon halfway to success.

Next, was to tackle the newness of Blogger format.

(Which may actually not be all that bad...)

Get this...

I spent the morning getting all zen like...

painting...relaxing...meditating...

accompanied

by the sweet strains and haunting melodies

of

R. Carlos Nakai"s flute

and

William Eaton's harp guitar

enchantingly playing

in the background.

Life was mellow....the pen just flowed.

Then came those unstoppable changes to the norm.

Glad to be over the hump.

Hopefully,

no surprises next upload...fingers and toes crossed.

"Change is the only constant."

~Proverbs

"Breaking Free..."

from sadness,

grief,

confusion,

worry,

guilt,

preconceived notions,

disenchantment,

lethargy,

the blurring of time,

unhealthiness,

and

disorder.

I have no other choice...I must do this!

“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”
~Pablo Picasso

"In Loving Memory..."

Susan V. Krahenbuhl

November 26,1960...March 23, 2012

♥

After Glow

"I'd like the memory of me

to be a happy one.

I'd like to leave an after glow

of smiles when the day is done.

I'd like to leave an echo

whispering softly down the ways,

Of happy times and laughing times

and bright and

sunny days.

I'd like the hearts, of those who grieve,

to dry before the sun

Of happy memories that I leave

When life is done."

~Helen Lowrie Marshall
(From her book of poetry, Close to the Heart)