Lida Dekker fascinating history Museum of Artifacts 1 November 2023 A fabric womb made by Angélique du Coudray, a French midwife who was commissioned by King Louis XV to reduce infant mortality. From 1760 to 1783, she traveled all over France, visiting poor rural women and sharing her extensive knowledge with them. It is estimated

Untitled needle lace sculpture (2015) by Hungarian textile artist, Ágnes Herczeg (born in 1968). Her works are created with silk and hemp thread, copper wire combined with poplar branch, and hand painted.

Birthday celebration finale was an “artist date” that began with Roxanne’s Applecake and took us to the boho Kenton neighborhood in Portland. Was treated to fun art supplies, too!

sundown clouds #skywatching

When it rainsThen the sun pushes, then pops throughThe persistent cloud coverWith seconds of glistening On newly fallen, still soakingLeaves in various stagesChanging pigments, north facing trunk shadows,tiny tufts of bright green Optimistic grass shoots, so lateWith colder temperature, but newly fedIn the wet damp earth,At the end of the back lotall manner of greens,

8 yearsDifferent StateSame state of mind 14 September 2015PRAYIN’ FOR RAINOne thing about LAjust sayin’We sure are pretty when we’re prayin’