Making Mass amounts of Spaghetti and Meatballs today for my son's family birthday celebration. I can't get to my external drive for photos as my PC is down (imagine that) and I am working on my macbook. So, I am thinking of internet archives and remember these 2 phots that the Spanish Literary Journal :: Margen Cero hosts as entries to their first ever {Premiere} photo competition. Troy and I were first time parents with a camera and in love with life! So this is to make a note to self: Enter more photo competitions, and Remember to cherish life...it is what we make it...
I am grateful that these photos are hosted in Cyperspace...we are entries 13 & 14...
http://www.margencero.com/BIBLIO/fotografia/fotos_concurso.htm
http://www.margencero.com/BIBLIO/fotografia/fotos_concurso.htm
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Monday, October 18, 2010
Revisiting Synchronicity : The Last Docking of The Delta Queen in The Port of Paducah, Kentucky
(c) jj leathermanThis morning I woke up with The Delta Queen (song by Nathan Lynn and Bawn in the Mash) playing in my head...then all this morning, I think I am hearing the Calliope Whistle loudly announcing??? Something...So, I peruse the Ol' BLOG and find that we are nearing that sad anniversary. I think it's worth a re-post and a re-visit. There is something about synchronicity and nostalgia that never grows old...
SAVE THE QUEEN~October 27, 2008
On Synchronicity: The Delta Queen and Nathan Lynn
We went early and made a day of it starting with a good morning salute to the Queen, and then headed to the River Maritime Museum, then onto the Railroad Museum, next for lunch: Kirchoff's good soup and sandwiches and then onto Wildhair Studios to pick up my first music purchase of Bawn in the Mash's Atomic City, their first album. Finally, we got back in the car and re- parked right down by the river to watch the Queen leave the Paducah Port for what could be the very last time.
Still in the sunny part of our day before the Queen's departure while relaxing in the warmth of the car by the river, I put the Atomic City album on and listened and stared at the old gal that is the Delta Queen paddle boat, and tried not to cry too hard in front of the children, but I was really sad, and then a head pops in our window~who but the singer of our farewell serenade: Nathan Lynn: http://www.nathanblakelynn.com/index.php.
He popped his head in and said, 'hey I sing that song, that's me singin'" The boys were delighted, and I went and got his autograph, and he gave me a cd! I felt like the most privileged of fans.
www.save-the-delta-queen.org
After I hopped back in the car, my eldest son didn't believe that the person on the cd that we were listening to was who he said he was there at the river front, right in front of us, so I said~'hey, he's got that guitar on his back maybe he's about to prove it." So, then the boys and I shamelessly followed Lynn and Dixie up to where the river gage runs and Nathan commenced to singing his beautiful tune about none other than The Delta Queen. It was such an honor to be there at the confluence of great art and history.
Friday, October 15, 2010
my son on hail bails ~flying
In my inbox I get these: Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week From: DharmaOcean@lists.shambhala.comhttp://lists.shambhala.com/mailman/listinfo/dharmaocean
October 15, 2010
FEARLESSNESS AND JOY ARE TRULY YOURS
When a warrior king presents a gift,
It could be a naked flame, which consumes the jungle of ego,
Or an ice cold mountain range, which cools the heat of aggression.
On the other hand, it could be a parachute.
One wonders whether it will open or not.
There is a further choice—Thunderbolt:
Whether you are capable of holding it with your bare hand is up to you.
So, my heartfelt child, take these gifts and use them
In the way that past warriors have done.
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Hope Collage
Finally, I have a new piece up at the Benton Working Artist's Gallery~{B-WAG)...It is mixed media collage made with authentic vintage materials, dragon fly body, feathers, and my photography...
Friday, June 4, 2010
‘An Evening of Performance’
‘An Evening of Performance’
Yay! First time I've been in the paper since Governor's Scholars...and the GS article is with it. Ha!
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
The Harbringers of Spring
I took this in Land Between The Lakes for a Freelance Cover/piece I'm working on...This is the fave photo I've taken in a while. I feel peace and hope when I look at it=Making Peace...
Monday, March 22, 2010
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Kindness Girl
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.” Dr. King
Kindness Girl Inspires Me
Kindness Girl Inspires Me
Monday, March 1, 2010
Plural of Moss=Moss
i placed the moss at the entrance to our fairy hole (home), in the hole-with-moss pictured here~to give the fairies a nice cozy entrance...
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Rearview Mirror Self-Portraits
newest self-rearview mirror portrait pointing in the direction from which I was born 
our rabbit hole
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Today is The Day!
Yay! I marry myself today! It's Valentines Day~AND The Lunar New Year!!!! The Year of the Tiger.
A Special Valentine
If Love Could be tied in little bouquets, then you would have corsages the rest of your days...You Couldn't tell the corsages apart because they would be tied to the strings of my heart.
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Bob the Caterpillar Cocooned!
Our Bob in his cocoon on February 11, 2010
what Bob looked like last week...
"Wouldn’t it be fun to catch a Woolly Bear caterpillar and keep it alive in a jar, feed it everyday as it fattens and watch it? The caterpillar will hibernate through the cold part of winter. In the spring you can feed it again, watch it spin a cocoon of silk and hair. One week later it will “hatch” and the moth will emerge. Then you can set your Tiger moth free outside.Read more at Suite101: Woolly Bear Hunting: Caterpillar of Isabella Tiger Moth "
Our Wooly Bear Story: On January 21, 2010, it was a typical Western Kentucky day in that the weather had shifted from winter to what felt like spring. It was rainy, warm, balmy even. On this day, I found "Bob", our class room caterpillar. I am 99% sure that Bob was a Wooly Bear Caterpillar which predicts a hard winter, which it is...
Bob was found in the spring of our hard winter here...quite odd, indeed, no? But I think it is a gift of love from nature for our classroom.
And 21 days later, Bob cocooned!
We think Bob will turn into a Tiger Moth...But we are not quite sure. We will see in a???.....(still waiting March 11, 2010)
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Saturday, January 30, 2010
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