The Definition of Summer.... studio time, garden time, kitchen time, family and friends time, beaches,  rainbows, travel, flowers, fruits, vegetables, heat ....long days that somehow are lazy and also full.

A tunnel book and lino block of a house on Geer St. Durham, NC

Bread and Butter pickles from extra cucumbers

Harvesting oregano and cucumbers from the garden

A book teaching gig at Emerald Isle, NC starts with a rainbow

A trip to see friends in the mountains at Penland

Zinnias in bloom by the studio

Finished a piece, 'The Bowl, the Book, and the Box' for the October show at Campbell House in  Southern Pines, NC

Quiches and casseroles... still trying to use up all the squash from the garden..

A morning coffee with mug from one of my favorite potters;
RIP Marsha Owen, Sept. 1954-July 7, 2023
We love you!

Edition watercoloring of woodblock prints: The Bowl and the Book

The garden out back just gets wilder and wilder... beans, tomatoes, squash, onions, peppers, kale, okra, cucumbers, rosemary, oregano, thyme, and chives, and milkweed, butterflies, bees, weeds, mosquitos

Hallie's Garden, paste paper painting for the Campbell House show
A wild garden of my past, my Great Aunt Hallie always planted her garden by the phases of the moon... and was said to be able to remove warts.. which she did for my Mom the summer I was eleven...