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Studio:  two torsos and a heron drying.

I was a very busy bee today.  It seems either the full moon or feeling out of control about my business decisions sent me out in the a.m. to rerake what I started yesterday before the weather blew in, and rake what I hadn’t gotten to before.  This is no small task when you live amonst the trees, which we do.  So today’s Art Every day Month (AEM) offering consists of pictures of before and after for your veiwing pleasure (below).

Then I came inside and started hanging pictures I stored away over a year ago when we thought we would try to sell our house so Husband could be closer to work.  Right about the time the market came to a grinding halt.  In the meantime, I’ve also purchase new pictures so have had to be creative in finding places to hang everything and everything is not hung, but it’s better than before.  I feel like I reclaimed my house!

Some of the new pictures that I purchased were the original and first of the  Subway Series by Leah, and more recently two smaller ones to go with that.  Here they are hanging in my foyer.  As you can see I need at least one more small Subway picture to even this all out.  Leah is creating more for AEM.  And I am trying to keep up with what I’m investing in myself and my business and, oh yes, for the holiday season (for which I have a very tidy little budget, thank goodness!).  Alas, I think more purchases of wall hangings will have to wait a while.  I have outdone myself this year, and have 3 pieces (an original Leah sent as a gift, an original that the Dream practically gave away, and a piece by Brenda Marks I won in a contest) that have to have professional frames made and 2 pieces (one I bought from Ascender (who, by the way, has a lovely lineup of great blogs to visit today – including this one…=]) and one I was gifted by Andrea) that also need to be framed.  I am surrounded by abundance!

So here are the yard pictures, starting with the lane unraked (although you can see in the lower right corner I had started), then the lane raked, the pond raked and leaves cleaned out, fish in the pond, and a border of rock shards in front of what will be row of hostas if the drought didn’t kill them this year (you can only visit HealingMagicHands’ blog so often without wanting to tidy up your yard and add rocks – lots of rocks.  Dream, too.  What her husband did with her yard is amazing!), and a picture of the quite done hostas in the deck planter with the still quite prettily blooming (November 23!!!!) impatiens behind them.  It appears that may be taken care of tonight – they are calling for the 20s in DC…we might be higher as we are on the water and it makes a difference.

and now I am going to spend the rest of the evening reading "The Fool on the Hill" which I discovered somewhere reading blogs who enjoyed It’s a Dirty Job by Christopher Moore and thought since they were spoken of in the same "breath" I’d give a look and am greatly enjoying this book.  It’s sort of a mix between Moore and Neil Gaiman, only no where near as dark as Gaiman, whose American Gods is top notch, dark, and a fabulous love story of sorts.

At one point I thought I would get in the studio today, or pull out the paints, but find myself quite done in by all this activity (and the leftovers from yesterday.)

Thought for the day:  To live with reverence means being wiling to say, "That is Life, we must not harm it," and "Those are our ellow humans, we must not destroy them," and mean it.  It means reexamining the way that we treat the members of the animal kingdom that serve us to patiently.  It means recognizing the rights of the Earth.  That the Earth ahs rights is a concept that is not even present in our species yet.  Gary Zukav, The Seat of the Soul