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We are not alone when we live from a place in the heart
Painted Heart by John Baldessari, seen in Los Angeles…
Wood Hearts seen at the lovely Livia Firth’s store near London, Eco Age…
LED Heart Created and shot at my home studio using LED lights from my store…
Metal Heart from Mexico…
French Heart art project….
LOVE created in my home studio…
Crazy Love shot at my home studio…
One is not loved accidently, one’s own power to love produces love
-Eric Fromm-
Today when doves
echo in soft matching notes
coo coo coo coo
when the woodpecker
batters his head
into the same tree
until the hole
is big enough
to stuff his acorn
or the thrasher
standing king-like in the madrone
his crass notes a rasp in spring air
when the hummingbird
makes his sky circles
with the loud pop at the bottom
my despair, the red-shouldered hawk
sawing the sky in half
with his screams———
when the loud scolds of jays
greedily push at the feeder
knocking seeds from the stand
and the faint treble of California quail
cluck in the underbrush
shy and tentative…… chicago chicago chicago
and even the rip sound
of the perigrine pulling
feathers from his kill
when the mocker, boisterress with longing
jumps from his branch
in acrobatic turnings
and the warblers query
witchita witchita witchita which?
glitter-flashes of gold in the oaks
when the violet-green swallows,
chi veet chi veet, sew the sky back together
wih their darts and swoops
BEAUTIFUL BIRDS OF CALIFORNIA:
WOODPECKER
PERIGRINE
HUMMINGBIRD
QUAIL
I just returned from 3 days in Maine, where Spring is taking it’s time. Lovely Daffodils and Fiddlehead Ferns were poking out here and there.
Fiddleheads
If I hadn’t gotten lost in the hayloft of the big barn, I would not have seen this view from above.
View from the hayloft
The wood is just starting to look nice on my old playhouses.
Weathered
Loving Maine a whole lot.
I just had the most magical experience! In a forest outside Santa Barbara, California, I saw Eucalyptus trees dripping with clusters of hundreds of Monarch Butterflies. If they weren’t huddled in many teaming clusters, they were fluttering around overheard, warming their orange and black wings that were sparkling in the afternoon sunlight. So beautiful!
Found on the forest floor
It was wonderful to be able to walk on such biologically rich land that has been preserved and protected in such a way that these exquisite creatures can breed in peace before they migrate, the same they have been doing for hundreds of years in the natural rhythm of nature.
Did you know…that a female Monarch lays 700 eggs, and which she deposits one at a time on the bottom of the leaf of a milkweed. The eggs are glued on with a paste and a special scent that says to other Monarchs: “No Vacancy.”
Long shot of a cluster of Monarchs
If you are interested in learning more Monarch Butterfly facts: http://www.monarch-butterfly.com/
Nature is amazing.
” If change can be made in this country, beautiful things will happen around the world. If America does it other people will follow.”
-Jamie Oliver-
Jamie Oliver aka The Naked Chef, is the uber British food revolutionary extraordinaire. In his quote I posted above, he is referring to the food revolution that needs to happen in the USA.
He is currently in Los Angeles, filming his show “Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution” and according to the news: “Jamie Oliver, the Naked Chef turned food activist, was forced to halt the filming of his ABC show Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution at West Adams Preparatory High School in South LA last week after he couldn’t guarantee he wouldn’t make the district look bad on TV.”
Food Revolutionary
I was in Paris early fall last year, and chanced upon a cache of fresh Hazelnuts at a little marche’, which I scooped up into a paper bag. Three days later, I was still eating them for breakfast, mid morning snack or really anytime snack. I loved that they were still in their natural Hazelnut wrapping, which I had to peel back to the hard shell, which I cracked open to reveal the raw and pure Hazelnut inside. Hazelnuts have many health benefits, such as being rich in folic acid, enriching red blood cells ( essential for oxygen transport throughout the body), and provide the body with proteins, which are considered the building blocks for the formation of tissues and muscle mass. Hazelnuts are so delicious too!
Mighty Hazelnuts
Not being of the patient type when I was younger, I want to believe that I have grown into an appreciation for the wisdom of it. Therefore, in that spirit, I felt it was best to wait until a few days ago, to put up a category on my site that shows the products that I design, all a whopping 13 of them. A Priscilla Woolworth Design is the category I am so pleased about, because all the products I offer on it I use and they are really fabulous, honestly. I wouldn’t use anything that wasn’t great, nor would I ever offer it on my site.
Several of these products in fact, I use everyday and even bring with me when I travel, such as the market bags. They really are wonderful and I am so happy with the way they turned out. I designed them to fit my lifestyle and they have performed beyond my expectations. One of them in particular is especially brilliant, though more expensive than the others, due to the costly material, which is made from recycled plastic and somehow made into a soft black mock suede that is so strong that I have carried very heavy things in it and it’s still as good as new, from 3 years now of constant use and many washings.
The other one I use as well every day, because I go to the market daily to buy the freshest produce I can find, are the produce bags. I am anti plastic bags and am so relieved that I have an alternative that is so cool looking, sturdy and useful. When I was in Maine a few summers ago, I bought a whole pile of these vintage feed bags. I really liked the material and writing on it but wasn’t sure what to do with them. Making pillows from them was out of the question, so I just sat on them for a while until I patiently waited for inspiration to strike me. And it did and has over and over again, for other products I make. I am drawn to ways I can reuse materials, keep them out of the huge landfills and create a whole new purpose for them that is very useful. So, be patient with me and you will be rewarded with many new products I have in the works this year, which I honestly can’t wait to use myself.
It was a yummy few hours I spent in the company of many wonderfully colorful and friendly people. This festival is one of my favorites because it’s small, authentic and just so interesting. Young and old entrepreneurs show their new products, some only one, others many, in the hopes of launching a solid business for themselves. The biggest change I noticed, from other years, was the proliferation of hemp and organic clothing lines, and how much cooler looking they are getting and more diverse as well.
I was of course, drawn to the beautiful herbs and mushroom vendors, and the very pleasing rustic displays of their wares, as well as a large artwork made out of recycled trash by a very creative guy.
More info on San Francisco’s Green Festival
Last year, I was so thrilled to be invited to the opening ceremony of the newly redone Tree People public use area located in Los Anegles. What got the most attention was the large catch basin they built, for saving and then reusing rainwater, a vital infrastructure improvement for the parched Los Angeles area. The trees in the Tree People trails that so many of us enjoy walking by, are therefore kept happy and healthy from this saved water, which is trickled down to these trees as needed.
Recently, I was there hiking with my dog Leroy, and we came upon the remains of a party/event that had taken place there the night before. As all the tables and chairs were being folded and carried away, what had not been dismantled yet, were some clever “Repurposed installations”, using found objects or recycling others for a useful purpose. Shovels were lined up, to create a temporary fence and in another spot, pvc type pipes were cut and made into a chandelier, hung artfully overhead with LED fairy lights, which must have been a lovely at night.
Repurposed plastic piping as lamp
Repurposed shovels as fence
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