Easter is my favorite holiday. Spring, new colors, new scents, new light, and new projects. Throughout the years, I have dyed Easter eggs with our grandchildren, and this has become a tradition. Many of the eggs are dyed with leaves. Many look like little jeweled treasures. We still hunt for eggs on Easter morning.
All leaves from the same branch from our neighbor’s tree. Printed on watercolor paper soaked in different mordants: water with Vinegar, Rusty water, Alum, and Iron shavings. Magic!
Our wilding garden in in Sedona, Arizona – zone 9. Within it, there are many micro-climates. Some of the plants and their dyes on recycled strips of old cotton bedsheets. A lits of these plants, enlarged. (coming)
Happy Christmas! Click here for some unexpected details. By clicking anywhere on the above link to the wreath, you see an enlargement of the leaves, seeds, and berries, in an unexpected world from dragons to fairies, a world of death and life, of darkness,of unexpected colors, and light. A world in which things are not as they appear. By clicking anywhere on the enlargements, or on the banner “Christmas ” on top, you will get back to the wreath. […]
I have lived in a canyon close to Sedona since 1981. There has not been a day in which I have not loved these mesas and buttes. They are such a Presence, and dramatic backdrop for the sky.
A night deep in the desert. It seems so lonely. Yet the stars in the infinite vast space are our infinite companions, watching us.
