mixed media month

September is flying by.... it's the 26th - feeling like August, and us without a pool - gardens are not at their best, my containers do look good. All the begonias and impatients have found a spot in the windows of my studio; I brought them in to avoid the cold weather we had for about two seconds. We've had the hazy. hot and humid weather for several days.
Anne, Ila and I went to see "William Daley Selected Works" at the Lamont gallery on the campus of Phillips Exeter academy. We went to hear the gallery talk on Sept 17. It was fabulous. He's 87 and lectured for over an hour to a large, mixed audience. Lectured isn't close to what he did. We laughed and were awed by his energy, focus and fabulous slides of his work and the work that has inspired him. He'd been at classes during the week. check it out at  http://www.williamdaley.net/

I've done some work over the month. Several pages in my art journal revolved around the 11th.  These show the mixed emotions around the sadness and the hope for resolution around the memorial.

The final spread is from earlier in the month.

Labor Day weekend

We finished cleaning up the brush and wood from Hurricane Irene's visit a week ago today. It's 91degrees at noon.
Very humid day. I wondered about 2009.

 
 a single hungry
hummingbird visits blossoms
goodbye to summer

The hungry hummingbird

                                                       returns  for one last sip of lovely nectar.

I've seen very few hummingbirds this summer. Today's Haiku could read:

                                                          Hidden from view  birds

                                                  rest among faded blossoms.

                                                        Cooler air unfelt..

                                          

September 2, 2011 or 9/2/11

Looks like good numeration for some art journaling.... NINE, TWO,ELEVEN

Wednesday, I added a fun entry to my school blog http://www.ekesartistsworkshop.blogspot.com/. My fall focus is "color". This week I'll have the first graders see what paint can make on large sheets of white paper.

It's dreary this morning, cool and little humid. Deezel and I are planning a 4 mile walk in a bit. Here's a recent pic of the boy. He's actually sniffing a bee on the butterfly bush. So far he hasn't gotten stung and remains curious about the little buzzing things. He weighed 189 at the vet's earlier this summer, but we think he's lost a little. He doesn't eat well when it's hot.

We lost power for about 30 hours and celebrated when the tree and power teams showed up to remove the branch that fell from our locust tree. But we were so lucky to be spared the torrential floods AND power outages.

I brought in most of the containers from my gardens. I feared for heavy rains and branches falling on them. They look lush and lovely now and we'll have about another month for them to be outside. I'll bring them into the sun porch, then to various spots around the house for maximum light in the winter ahead.

This begonia is one I had last summer.

The new guinea impatient will have to be replaced next summer. I've never been able to have one over winter.

Of course, the supertunia is indescribable. 

 The geranium might survive in the house for next summer.

Coleus is always a success in my "container gardens'.

Yesterday, Anne, Ila and I visited the Wentworth-Coolidge Mansion on Little Harbor for their art and sculpture exhibits.  We enjoyed the out door sculpture. It was NH scenic at its best with the mansion and the harbor and the blue sky.
nhstateparks.org/explore/state-parks/wentworth-coolidge-mansion-state-historic-site.aspx

With lunch at the Ice House in Rye.

summer's end

It's hard to believe, but today marks the end of summer vacation. Tomorrow, Wednesday, we have a teachers' workshop, Thursday a staff meeting and Friday is a time to work in classrooms.

iris from June

I'm photographing all my container gardens today. They look fabulous. Regular watering and fertilizing helps. My art work has consisted of tangling, making a new glasses pouch and machine stitching new pillow covers.

bird from orioles' arrival

brain

The "brain" was what I worked on when in PA in July when my sister, Elizabeth, had brain surgery. The tumor was the size of an orange. She's at skilled nursing facility until Friday when she's scheduled to go home. I can tell each time I talk to her that she's regained much of her  language skills. She's still not great stamina wise, but considering she's been hospitalized since the beginning of July, that will take a while to get back. 

heat and watering

I watered all my plant pots and the vegetable garden this morning. Rain is in the forecast, but I didn't water yesterday, so decided the plants were in need of a little attention. I cleaned the day lily beds; they look so awful once the stems are dried and the leaves falling down.

coleus

Yesterday I went on a garden tour at the ProvenWinner gardens in Louden, NH. They wholesale to the garden centers and are the Supertunia people.

I'll be documenting my container gardens soon. I plan to use the photos as reference the following year, but somehow just go with what I like and each year they're a little different.
Hard to believe that fall will soon be requiring a different kind of work in the gardens.
My sister's still in the hospital, the rehab section and will soon be changing residence to a nursing home/rehab center. She's still needing a walker and lots of help.  We're looking at moving her here to NH as soon as we can figure out what her needs will be.
Roger's out in the pool after clearing brush this morning. Deezel's sprawled out on his bed in the living room. Zeek is pestering me for a treat; Buck wheats' passed out on the sofa and Zoey's making her rounds in the field hoping for a successful hunting trip.

cool down

Finally, a cooler summer day. I opted to not water, but to enjoy the quiet of my studio. Deezel's resting on the floor. He got hot on the walk downtown even though the temp was much more NE like.

Here's a photo I'm using for a get well card to my sister, Elizabeth. She's recuperating from surgery to remove a brain tumor- benign and they got the whole thing.

These rhubrum lilies have a heady( sorry about this pun) scent. I have one plant with a stem about 2 inches wide and blossoms all over it. Each one is about 6 feet tall.
My art work has been small pieces in a  5 x 3 doodle book and ART JOURNAL MMXI volumes 1 & 2.
I've started new pillow covers to replicate the ones I've had for many years.

I'm getting ready for a lunch of lettuce, basil, parsley, tomatoes, beans and pea pods from my own garden.
I have been watering twice a day for the past four days. I'll be out there later this afternoon after the movie, "Rango" at the library with Ila followed by ice cream.
It is national ice cream month !

catch up... what was 2009, 2010 on May 16

I wondered what last May and the prior May were like... rainy? nice ? what was blossoming...
Neither entry mentions the weather, but I did see a lady's slipper on the walk... have to check my diary to see if I specified where...
Today's the third rainy day in a row, but Deezel and I walked 3 miles. I saw a grey fox crossing the street not too far from home.
Class in Manchester tonight at the Currier's Art Center.
I printed out the 2010 entries to use in ART JOURNAL MMXI. I need to photograph the ones I've finished to post soon.