Dear Santa: Will you please bring me this little cabin for my workshop/teaching space/sanity hide-out?  Pretty please?  I promise to b...

It's been a long time since I allowed myself the pleasure of crawling back into bed after ushering my boys off to school, but that...

The little polypore I found the other day - the mustard yellow polypore - gave me some color in the dye pot. After noticing the in...

Yesterday I took my 7 and 8 year old boys with me to Ripple River Gallery for their annual raku firing.  I've always thought raku is...

Well look at that.  In the span of 24 hours those sulphur shelf mushrooms I was watching went from nubbins to somethin's.  Enough to ...

A walk through the woods revealed something that I've been waiting and waiting for... mushroom season. With the dry weather we mi...

 Their own nest, carefully cobbled together from ferns and twigs (and is that poison ivy? yep).  Like little momma birds.  Slightly itchy...

  The threat of near-frosty temperatures on our overnight made me a little nostalgic.  I'm not quite ready for the cold.  We only jus...

It's been a busy week.  I'll be back soon, but in the meantime here are some naturally-dyed stones to look at.  (you'll be se...

  I found this perfect little pebble in my pant cuff.  A stow-away from my trip to the Lake last week.   I thought it would be fitti...

  Yesterday I spent a glorious day on the shores of Lake Superior with a friend. I couldn't have asked for a more perfect day.  The...

  Life is not easy for any of us, me included, but yesterday was especially tough.  It seemed everything was a battle, everything was a...

  I took a little time yesterday to get out to the woods.  I was in need of some one on one time with mother nature and I was hoping ther...