June reading

I bought a few books while on holiday.

I have begun to plan my next adventure.

I want to find the gem and fossil trails in the Mid-west.

I picked up a few requested books from the library.

I am learning about book binding.

I want to make my own journals.
I need them for when I find gem trails.

I always have lots of paper to recycle.

I am thinking it would be fun to create with all the scap paper that comes my way.

I have fallen in love with petroglyphs.

While in Portland, Oregon we saw the documentary,
 "Cave of Forgotten Dreams."

It is about the rock art in Chauvet Cave in southern France.

When I came across this book in the on line library card catolog I was not sure what it would be about.

I am an avid photgrapher.

It is easy for me to take 100 plus photographs a day.

I work with three cameras and lots of different lens.

I have a huge collection of images.

I knew right away this was an important book for me.

"Several of the animal figures in the collection in the Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc cave were drawn with a finger moving on a thin film of clay. In French the term for such a drawing is trace digital, or digital drawing. We are at once linked from twenty-first century digital images to the digital images of our ancestors, reminded that the computer-based use of the term is anchored in our very physical nature and reminded that construction of images is a purposeful act."

A book I requested last winter has come in.
I will enjoy looking through.
Maybe I will sew up a few birds.
I have a bird collection.

End of April

I like to have a
book about science on my nightstand.

I like sustainable!

This is my favorite book right now.
I like it so much I want my husband to read it.
This book has encouraged me to find my terroir,
my place of taste.

I just begun reading this history of dance and find myself
becoming upset. I seldom think about how unjustly we treat each other. Woman have mistreated for hundreds of years.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes has filled my heart with the joy of becoming a wild and wise woman. I want all my friends to listen to her stories.

I have not begun this book.
It looks interesting.

I am a plant person.
I love finding ways of using the plants I grow.

I am studying wildflowers.

I am getting to know the wildflowers that grow
near my house on the Tallgrass Prairie.

Our picnic season begins right after Easter.

The Pleiades are associated with Taurus.
I try to learn a little something about my favorite constellation every year.

All sorts of cozies!

Learning about coffee and have a few cups.

April's books have been enjoyable.

April's books

My husband and I are both reading
about microbes.
They are very interesting.

I am almost finished with my study of France
for this year.

I read many books every week.

Most months I have several themes.

France and all things French is
one of April's themes.

The kitchen is the heart of the French home.

The country side is the soul
of France.

When I was 13 years old I read the biography
of Marie Curie
and fell in love with science.

She was a tiny giant.

I look for inspiration when I read.

I often take notes.

I have enjoyed my study
and arm chair travel this year.

I feel as if I know this culture
a little bit better.

I study the bee in April.

Sue Hubbell is such a wonderful writer.
She makes me wish I was a beekeeper.
Maybe one of these days I will be.

End of February

A few more books to finish up February.
I enjoyed learning about the history of the painting
"St. George and the Dragon".
I am looking for other biographies of paintings.

A bit of entertainment

and learning.

My favorite this week is the study
of microbes.

I am having lots of fun hunting for Angels.

I am just dreaming of travel.

I have been convalescing.

I understand the joy of becoming friends
with a snail.

February's Books

My friend sent me a lovly book about Lavender.
I am treasuring each page.

I am always looking for inspiration.
I want to embroidery a dragon on my hat.

I bought Pleasure Healing so I could highlight and made notes in the margins. While I am recovering from pneumonia I have been
enjoying some spa activity. Foot baths just feel so nice!

Making plans to grow more food for my table
this coming growing season.

We need to do some remolding.

We need to do some 

work in the kitchen.

There is aways plenty to read.

There are always poems!