Rodrigvitz Style

Spring Awakening

just itching to dig into another bag of clay...to set free more wood nymphs and spring creatures

readying wood nymph, bird boy and BEE totems for the Awakening show that opens this Sunday.

Awakening

 
I am finding such JOY in making these little stamp prints...you can find unmounted prints here

more spring wood nymphs, bird boys and BEES flying forth

and aligning for the Awakening, the late spring show at Rabid Rabits Galeria...

go find your JOY

More Birds and Bees

Playing...more birds, bees and wood nymphs, inspriring stories of the bee goddess...

journal totems and ideas percolating of how they are going to jump off the journal pages...

and Queen of the Sun...another film about the vanishing bees, and a true bee goddess

Bee...JoyFULL

What a JOY...just like clockwork...as soon as the Ornamental Pear buds

blossomed...the tree is humming

that BEEautiful spring song...

Bee-aware

 
of the plight of the Vanishing Bees...

May from Mary Oliver

"May, and among the miles of leafing,

Blossoms storm out of the darkness--

windflowers and moccasin flowers. The bees dive into them and I too,

to gather their spiritual honey. Mute and meek,

yet theirs is the deepest certainty that this existence too--

this sense of well-being, the flourishing of the physical body--

rides near the hub of the miracle that everything is a part of,

is as good as a poem or a prayer, can also make luminous any dark place on earth."

thank you Margaret for sharing this poem

Haiku Mandala

I was hoping for a spot of yellow...a dandelion, to build a little spring mandala around.  Saw the Vanishing Bees and was both frightened and saddened and left very hopeful at the same time.

Dandelions are the bees first source of food in the early spring...don't dig them up until after they've bloomed and never ever spray them. 

we depend on them

to feed this hungry planet

please lend them a hand

and that's no joke....

It's Haiku my Heart

 

It's Buzzing around Here

We have been like busy bees...cleaning up the yard as well as the Mango Studio in anticipation of the Longmont Studio Tour this weekend.

the girls have been watching it all...

and are plum tuckered out from so much activity.

everything's in place...

and aligning to be a great weekend

I do hope you can drop by...

Busy Bees

Busy weekend...we were all buzzing around.  Tess's dear friend Amanda and her husband threw a party at our house to celebrate completing their MBA's.

The girls were in production mode creating a vast array of incredible cupcakes....

my personal favorite, sweet potato cupcake with cream cheese frosting topped with roasted walnuts

Tess was the party planner extraordinaire....these large tissue paper balls hanging among the many little tea lights

and some of my pieces came out of the kiln.  Mr R cut many little lengths of heavy copper wire for me as well as re-drilling holes in the clay beads so that I could begin attaching the bugs and bees

...we will be assembling the totems in a couple of days and I can't wait to share that with you.

Hope you were able to find some cool this weekend

Be... Just Bee

Bee

Just Be

Getting ArboREAL...the final installment

Thank you to Julie and JeriAnn for hosting Getting Arboreal over the past year where we have been following the trees in our world through the changing seasons.  My Ornamental Pear has had a trying couple of years, losing large branches to heavy snows...but she carries on....

and isn't it amazing how the minute the blossoms begin to open...

they know...

the honey bees coming visiting to drink of her sweetness from her bee-size cups.