I can't believe it's officially summer! I guess I've been on a little blog vacation. I meant to chime in on my birthday, to show you the first blossom, definitely a sign from Shannon who would have been 50 on our special day. By the following week in May the garden was in full bloom. I also meant to post photos of our Fallon, who graduated from Rutgers. So I will do that now.
Here are two of the four walls of roses. The last photo shows how tall they've become – wanting to show off to the neighborhood.
And here's our girl graduating on Mother's Day from Rutgers University with honors. As we looked back at photos of my college graduation we noticed that both Fallon and I wore a black dress with white polka dots. Love that one of her baby photos has her dressed in red scarlet.
Here's a wonderful story of Synchronicity. Ten years ago I posted this story: HERE. If you don't click through to read I'll summarize. I was in a Self-Portrait round robin journal project and I was working on a page where I had typed up tiny strips of repeated words that described me. Mother, Wife, Sister, Daughter, Friend, Artist….you get it. So I had Fallon read them and tell me if I was missing anything. She said: Believer. So Believer became significant between us. Every year since then I have gotten her a gift with Believer as an engraving or marking. I have a wood sign in my studio that says Believe, so I found an R to add to it. For some reason I painted it red. See photo. That was 2008. Then a few years ago, when Fallon was deciding where to finish college, we were having a family discussion at the dinner table, reviewing the options. She happens to look up from her placet at the table, and saw I had moved the Believer sign + R to a spot in the studio within view….and it was a "sign". Literally. Rutgers logo is a red R. So she accepted Rutgers, and has graduated as a Scarlet Knight.
I've had a fun time working on a project for the last two weeks – something totally new for me. There was a bit of a learning curve but that is what happens when you try to educate yourself on the properties of a material. You'll see more about it in September. Meanwhile, here's some of my worktable:
So that's a quick catch-up from May….had some issues uploading photos but it appears to be working now so I will have another post going up later today.