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Art of Rembering...the Veil is Thinning

As the time grows near, the veil is thinning...for us to gather in the candle light together and share our art and stories of Dia de los Muertos and sit in their loving memory...I surround myself with my own stories and images that gather in the Mango Studio.

On Tuesday, Nov 1st please visit me and Rebecca...leave the link to your Dia de los Muertos/ Dia de Bloglandia post in both our Mr Linky's and leave a comment on both of our posts.

Then settle in to visit each and every offering, share with each other the beautiful stories, ofrendas and artwork in this Dia de los Muertos.

Sweet

We are only days away from Dia de Bloglandia...sweet

Great history of sugar skulls can be found HERE

Season to Season...Haiku

season to season

one overlies the other

each, full of deLIGHT

Click for more Haiku my Heart

Trying to find the JOY

Summer and 80 degrees to 12" of snow...just like that

at least it didn't crash through the window...there is some JOY in that.

 

Havesting and Cleaning Up

The end of the season, there is great beauty in decay...

and in that left behind.

We harvested a bounty! of vegetables...tomatoes, beans hidden within the vines, a perfect eggplant, some lemon cucumbers...

these squash, that we are not at all sure of the variety...I need to roast one and see what it tastes like...

marigold 'bushes' off to the compost pile...

the magic of digging in the dirt and finding potatoes.

It went so quickly...this growing season...snow in the forecast for tomorrow.  A fresh eye to see the beauty that awaits us next.

Tomatillos...that I used to make a green salsa

a recipe from my Mexico cooking class.

 

The Art of Remembering...dia de los muertos

Stringing chains of shades of orange, yellow and gold marigolds...easy. I use a heavy weight sewing thread and a longish needle.  Put the needle through the flower end and on through the bit of green stem, grab another and continue until you have a beautiful chain.

Please use needle nose pliers to pull the needle through the bloom and not your teeth...let me be the only one that has to explain to her dentist exactly how I chipped that tooth.

These Merry-gold chains remind me of our conversations here...the accumulating stories that we share...that tie us together.

that so perfectly wrap around, gently holding together, one story unfolding into the next....  Just 1 more Sunday of sharing our prepartions for our Dia de Bloglandia event.  Be sure to visit Rebecca for more on the Art of Remembering.

and...we put our huge garden to bed today...the last of the marigolds on their way to the compost pile.

Fall-ing

perhaps I should be raking leaves...but stringing the last of the marigolds was more fun. 

 

Happy Happy Birthday Haiku!

Happiest of birthday wishes my dearest!!!  This is set to post at 8:29 am...when little Tess was born 26 years ago....never outgrow your silliness and wonderful sense of fun and humor!

and...ahead of her time.  Planking...who knew!!!

wishing you the best...

kisses and hugs our darlin'

birthday dinner...soon

more haiku my heart

 

 

JOY Knee Deep in Gold

This would be me...in the city garden along the bike path...filling a bag with gold, marigold
They'll be dug up soon...better to savor the JOY of them in my Day of the Dead altar.

More gold in them thar hills from a hike a couple of weekends ago.

Savoring the fall color after a trip to the southeast where it was hot/humid and wet!!

Go here to find more JOY?

 

Old Friends

We gathered in Denver to see Hair and have an evening of catching up.  After the show the Occupy Denver demonstration passed by on the 16th Mall...things change and they stay the same.  The Occupy Denver folks were pepper sprayed while demonstrating in the park...really?

The past 35+ years have dealt us all our share of adventures and challenges..

each time we get together we still have new stories to share and old ones to laugh about.

Love you girls