Brains over Brawn
- watercolour, acrylic, pen, pencil
an-ATOM-ical heart
-watercolour, acrylic, pen, pencil
Sunday, July 24, 2016
Monday, July 11, 2016
Friday, July 08, 2016
Sunday, July 03, 2016
thirty days of SKY
July 3
July 2
July 1 Canada Day - earlier
July 1 later
June 30
June 30 different view
June 30 faint double rainbow
Tuesday, June 28, 2016
PRETTY things and real life FAIRY TALES
A toad on his stool.
Some pretties for my pretties.
My two greatest loves.
Friday, June 24, 2016
THREE weeks of SKY
June 24 earlier
June 24 later
June 23 earlier
June 23 later
June 22 earlier
June 22 later
June 21 earlier: just SKY
June 21 later
Monday, June 20, 2016
Sunday, June 19, 2016
ask YOUR self
What do you want?
What does your deeper self desire?
What brightens your soul?
What deepens your heart?
Ask yourself.
Tub Time
Modern luxuries such as bathtubs and running water have become forefront in my gratitude thoughts. When I have a bath here, in my rubbermaid container, the precious water has many uses. First I wash myself, then I wash my clothing, then I mop my floors and last of all... I water my garden.
"Luxurious"
Bubble head
Clean hair and happy feet
Friday, June 17, 2016
Thursday, June 16, 2016
EAT for life.
Food.
We all need food. It
provides us with nutrition, comfort, pleasure… sustenance to live another day. The process of making it can be a
particular, complicated and beautiful art form.
Multi-layers of flavour may stir emotions or memory, even arousal. Industries thrive on our necessity to: eat
daily.
Whether you love to cook or truly despise it, feeding
yourself is essential. Food is indispensable
to us as human beings.
Here at fire tower, I have become preoccupied with it. More specifically, the creation process. While sharing eats with friends and family always
provides a special ingredient to cooking (and I do miss this), being alone has
offered the freedom and inspiration to experiment.
My grocery delivery comes by only once per month, so creatively
using produce to leave very little waste, has been an important theme. Planning healthy meals for a month feels
like a survival skill at this job. I
have thoroughly enjoyed creating stocks, soups, stews, curries, pasta’s, chili’s
and casseroles that make ample use of the vegetables in my fridge and the dried
goods in my cupboard.
Fermenting has been another delicious solution. A hibiscus rose-hip Kombucha, sweetened
with wildflower honey, has turned out perfectly. My homemade Kimchi and Sauerkraut were also successful and much easier to make than anticipated.
I’ve sprouted my own sprouts (which is extremely easy but
requires a small level of commitment), made yogurt, energy balls, biscuits and
attempted sourdough bread. The whole-wheat
starter worked well but the actual loaf was awkward and doughy - all the more
reason to try again.
Growing a garden has been a helpful addition to my kitchen. I have wasabi greens, salad greens, spinach,
swiss chard, kale, multiple herbs, strawberries, peppers, tomatoes, beans,
peas, radishes, carrots, onions and scallions!
It is amazing what you can grow in a container. Plus, there are dandelions galore scattered about my site.
And, today I struck foodie gold. While walking to my weather station I
realized with utter delight, that the wild strawberries have begun to
ripen. In my ‘backyard’ I have a hill
absolutely covered with these tiny, scrumptious berries. I stopped to enjoy some of natures bounty, picking and eating one-by-one. My dogs decided they were keen to learn too and soon, all three of us were snacking appreciatively.
What a delicious blessing.
Missing this HANDSOME feller....
Foxy! That's my boyfriend!
At the BEST-of-em-all festival: Tiny Lights.
I love this man. So much.
Wednesday, June 15, 2016
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