mouse howl
ALT: water-soluble crayon. a purple mouse takes up most of the page. it is evidently howling toward a crescent moon, you can tell by the blue swirl coming out of its mouth. it looks pretty happy.
15 April 2026
14 April 2026
make of it what you will
ALT: water-soluble crayon, abstract. green and blue washy lines and stripes, with orange line and circle accents, purple and black ground. The composition is a little reminiscent of a ‘holy family’ theme, but maybe that’s just to my eyes.
13 April 2026
birthday rose – it’s my last day as a 67-year-old. general mayhem in the world notwithstanding, the past year has had its rewards in my little life. I’ll take it for what it is worth.
ALT: water-soluble crayon. a red rose bud nestles in rather grass-like green leaves, with celebratory spirals of blue and lavender under and above.
12 April 2026
unravel
I spent all day Saturday sitting in Open Town Meeting for my VT town, almost finishing crocheting a hat for my brother. When I checked out my work on Sunday I decided to undo all the work I had done, because it didn’t come out the way I wanted. When I work it up again, it will be better.
ALT: ink, abstract. a black wash and salted thick circle with thinner threads of blue, purple and orange spinning off it on the outside and inside.
10 April 2026
cease lug
ALT: ink. yeah, it’s sort of a sea slug, blobby yellow, with a red stripe down its back, a pair of eyes on stalks, with long tendrilly lashes, on a pretty green, blue and purple background.
9 April 2026
sweet rest
ALT: ink. a large tree leans over on the right side of the page, a smaller or more distant one on the left. roots below, perhaps a pool between the trees – or maybe just rising mist.
Oh also, here are some more darn stars.
8 April 2026
snap
more play with fiber scraps and ink
ALT: abstract, with glued bits of yarn and thread, and pooled ink. the image could be seen as a purple doggish critter, ears upraised and head turned as if in sudden movement. or you might see something completely different, or nothing at all but swoops of line and color.
7 April 2026
winter garden.
As the season moves toward spring, and green buds and shoots are starting to brave the world, we had a snowfall here, nearly an inch. It all melted very fast, but a reminder how early spring so often is a dance between the cold and the warm, intertwined in a way that is quite lovely though sometimes inconvenient.
Since I’ve been obsessed with making little stars and flowers from yarn woven onto pipe-cleaner frames (“darn stars”), my work table it covered with fiber scraps. perhaps inevitable that some would eventually get glued down to a page.
ALT: ink and fiber, abstract. perhaps a glass vase on the right, and leaning over it a branch with no leaves, but maybe watery and fibrous … flowers?
6 April 2026
arranging
ALT: water-soluble crayon. sort of abstract, but resembles flower arrangement. on the right, something gracefully grass-like in a bulbous purple vase. on the left an orange, fungal climbing thing, embracing three green discs. three seeds or pebbles in a pile in the lower left corner
5 April 2026
moment of rest
ALT: water-soluble crayon. a black cat sits looking out a window. a small purple princess smiles withe her arm around the cat. a large blue motherly person looms over both, eyes closed, and smiling gently.
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