the cuyamaca water conservation garden, on our list...

check out the website
I have amazing pottery students that do incredible things that I don't know about...until I do. And this is one of them. Jeri Deneen and her husband own a company that designed this garden, landscaped it...everything. And they are also responsible for all the graphics and planting of Monkey Trails at the Zoo and now their latest, Elephant Odyssey at the zoo. They are amazing. And then she comes to class and makes delicate cups and bowls.
This garden is at the top of our summer day trip list...."where to picnic".
Anyone want to join us?

psychadelic pottery and weird whale trip-outs...

..again with Silas at the Childrens Museum in their big, concrete, echoey shadow room...it is completely empty in the mornings when it first opens. We spent a half and hour in there. Silas liked to be a shadow dolphin and is very good at making that extrememly high piercing dolphin sound, a surprise to no one! And if you watch this video we can all agree that I go a little wacko in this place, odd whistling and girlish humming included. This is one good reason to go when there are no crowds! (this video is for you Cami, to make you laugh!) I obviously am in need of a new creative project as I have been messing around with the blog and tweaking far too many pictures for no reason at all. But my garden looks great...well tended and weeded. Always a sign of artistic malaise for me to be so on top of my free time. hmm....
And here comes summer!! Speaking of it...I will be taking the kids to the World Beat Center for drumming class in the park on Tues. at 3:00 throughout the summer if anyone wants to come, for a bit of food for the soul.

Mac cracks me up (from the "year of the tam" archives)...

...daishiki and UggBoot wearing, gum smackin' Emmett in the background is pretty comical too...

i was going to (and actually did) write a very depressing blog post...

...but then pressed "save" instead of "publish" and meandered over to Salon for a little politics (double depressing...after all I live in California where the Republicans are bleeding our social programs in very disastrous ways)... so I then read a little Garrison Keillor. Thank goodness for him. So, please click here to check out the little essay that lifted me out of all the disillusionment and placed me back where I like to live...where there is respect and compassion and sweetness and wonder and and so on and so on...


painting by tayla johnson called "rain on birch trees"

happy anniversary!

...not easy to find one of just us together...
best I could do...but matt, you look
pretty hunky in this one!


xxxxxoooooooooo

12 years!!!!!! wow!