The Boys !

This is Eric and Heather's beautiful place in Vermont and a day or two just shy of the peak fall colors. Eric is Phil's oldest son and lives with his wife, Heather and their two children, Eleanor and Isaac on a family farm in Starksboro. Next year, I am planning on going to Vermont in the fall, too. I want to knit and sketch where the trees are so beautiful!



Here are all the boys hanging out under a tree; Phil, Eric, Jacob and Isaac. What a handsome bunch!

Around Town - Film Fest 2010

Port Townsend's Galatea fountain all dressed up for the film festival. I particularly love the town's version of palm trees! We almost look like Hollywood! Most intriguing to me was the reflection of the statue's flowers in the water at the base of Galatea. Dyan Cannon was the fest's special guest and although I did not get to see her I heard from other shopkeepers how nice she was and so tiny a person.

Tonight's gonna be a good good night....

The sky tonight as I was driving out of town after work was incredibly beautiful. The clouds hovering above town, so artfully pasted into the sky, were like angel wings. I kept thinking " angel wings spread over Port Townsend. " Then, upon my arrival home, I glanced at the sky again and had to stop, dead still in my tracks as the clouds were painted the softest pastel pink and centered in wispy blue gray bigger clouds. Beautiful! Was my camera handy? Almost, but I did not want to move or stop looking at the sky and the dance of clouds long enough to retrieve it. So it is with words not even barely adequate to describe the evening sky that I leave you and wish you a good, good night.

Fiesta Fall!

Beautiful beach, light and shadow, sun and water. The grass still green from the wet, short summer. Fall has arrived.


A beautiful fall noontime at the beach in Port Hadlock. Perfect way to spend the first day of fall. The sun was shining and the air clean and blue.

Here is one of my favorite view points, Skunk Island, from the marina at the old alcohol plant looking towards the Wooden Boat Building School.

This Day

After running all the errands that have been accumulating on my " to do " list today, I sat down to finish some rosaries for the shop. All the sterling silver centers and crucifixes are pieces that I cast from antique pieces. Nothing relaxes me quite like the gentle zen act of making a rosary. The studio is quiet, no music or television, and as I turn and wrap and link I think each bead is made with a prayer uttered from my lips and certainly from my soul.





When I sit in the living room late in the evening as everyone else is sleeping or off doing their own thing, I ramble in a doodle. My mind wanders and the pen leaps at the chance to put the thoughts down on paper. You can see all the ramblings here. It's always a surprise to me when sometimes days or weeks later I look back at these doodles and wonder where my mind had been!

As A Rule....

I do not like spiders. I would rather have a tooth pulled, scrub a bathroom or dump the litter box than be anywhere near a spider of any size. I do not even go into Jacob's classroom because the tarantula named Rosie, " only escapes once in awhile, Mom " lives there so imagine my surprise at this nicely water jeweled web outside my studio.




I had dashed outside to the studio yesterday on my way to the shop ( again ) to grab a few things and the web was not visible until I came out of the studio door and the light caught the glittery water droplets just right. They looked like beads, maybe even like a piece of jewelry I would wear.

Pause Lois, in the beginning of a busy day, just pause and enjoy the little moments of beauty that spring upon you. Even if the beauty lies within a spider web.

Just Me

Doing the Self Portrait Fridays has been an interesting journey in acceptance and peace with and of myself. Acceptance of the changes in myself and being able to look at a picture of me and saying, " that's me and it is just fine. " I could stop doing the portraits but I feel I am growing as a person and loving myself. I think I will continue for awhile longer. Peace with me. Happy weekend, everyone!