Light Breeze

Last night, sometime about 7.30 pm, there was a light breeze.

July 5, Light breeze 1, 2015

July 5, Light breeze 2, 2015

July 5, Light breeze 3, 2015

Yesterday's Light

After a good day in the garden, surrounded by rampant growth and the scent of apple blossoms, we caught up on a few more episodes of "The West Wing", while out of the corner of my eye I saw this light.

Yesterday's Light 1, 2015

Yesterday's Light 2, 2015

Yesterday's Light 3, 2015

Yesterday's Light 4, 2015

It's Been Cold!

The last couple of mornings we have woken up to -28C which is about -20 F. [and this is only December she wails].  When it is this cold and windy the bottoms of the windows frost over and captured in the frost is another world, one that has always entranced me. Sometimes the frost reminds me of cross sections of the earth from old geography books, and sometimes they make me dream of distant galaxies.

layers

Looking back from the edge of space

Views Through The Old And New

JB and I and of course Zoe live in an old (1862) farmhouse that we bought 35 years ago. It's been a good house for us and we love it. The brick was made down the road and the glass for the windows was also made down the road and has lovely ripples and bubbles.  It had a summer kitchen attached to the back of the house, then a buggy barn attached to that and a cow barn attached to that. The summer kitchen became our kitchen and the barns became out studios. About 15 years ago we decided to rebuild our studios and they became a berm, with windows. The other morning when I got up there had been more snow and it was beautiful. I was struck again by the fact that the house is another layer of skin, the windows eyes to see out. The old windows have their mullion bars while the new are tall and thin and frame the tree trunks.

2 views

A Paler Shade of White

Love that song and love the deep quietness of this white world. Someone said we had 41 inches of snow, that swirled about the house and now lies deep on the ground. The world has become so still, now that the wind has died down, almost as if she is resting. Snow has piled up against the doors and windows and there has been a lot of shoveling to do. JB, my darling, shoveled a path from the studio to the parking area, making it easy for people to visit for the studio sale.

Snow against the windows

At The AGO

Saw the Eva Hesse, Agnes Martin and Betty Goodwin show at the AGO on Tuesday. The Martin paintings are gorgous; so quiet, you feel yourself sinking down into them. The Hesse portion of the exhibit has a wonderful room with studio works', maquettes of bigger work and /or ideas she was working with in the studio. While the Goodwin area has a few large works, one of the tarps, 2 large drawings and 4 long vitrines of her notebooks. The notebooks are fascinating as they cover her work from the 60's to 2004. There is also a area to watch videos of each artist.

windows at the AGO

windows at the AGO

windows at the AGO

Waiting For Windows

The renovations are progressing at my friends house and some new windows should arrive soon and be installed. Meanwhile the carpenters have prepared the openings and all is ready. The spaces look like musical scales or progressions and I find them very beautiful.

Blue scale up

Blue scale down

Yellow scale

Windows / Boarded up

Yesterday we went to one of our favorite art supply stores in Johnson, Vermont, appropriately called The Studio Store. Going there is always a treat and because the day was gorgous we decided to take some back roads we had never been on before. I love adventures and we got lost....and found. In one of the villages I found these beautiful boarded up windows, Harwick I think.

Boarded up window 1

Boarded up window 2

Boarded up window 3