Posted on April 19, 2012 by tricia scott

                                                           snapshot from a journal page

“These are the transitional times when I am not what I was nor am yet what I am becoming. In limbo times, I must live with alert attention to my feelings of vulnerability. I must guard against hasty choices and rushed decisions. In limbo times, I must learn to simply be. Soon enough, life will move me onward. Today I practice the action of loving non-action. I allow my life to alter organically and without unnatural haste. I trust the tempo of my unfolding.” — Julia Cameron

I love these words, feeling that they express perfectly how I’ve been feeling as of late. Each time I read them, I feel reassured and at peace, my breathing deepens and slows. Thank you to the friend who shared them.

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Photo Friday {Soft Light}

Posted on April 17, 2012 by tricia scott

The theme this week is “Soft Light.”

Penny and Olivia soak up some sun and rest before ballet class.

Penny loves to make herself at home on my art supplies. There she is in the photos below, cozy on a 24×24 panel, one that I was getting ready to prep with book pages as a companion piece to the hummingbird-inspired one from a few posts back. I didn’t have the heart to move her, instead I decided to work on a found poem at the next table.

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Posted on April 17, 2012 by tricia scott

It’s always a treat to get to hang out with Tiffany Trent. She drove into Roanoke on Saturday to talk about the revision process at the downtown library. Of course, I went. I felt a bit lousy but managed to pull it together. I’d already missed several outings with other friends and hated to keep adding to that list. So glad that I did. I have missed that girl!

She’s a fantastic speaker, giving lots of great tips and at the same time engaging the audience in discussion. I was a proud friend. One of her tips triggered a writing session on Sunday morning where I had a bit of a breakthrough.

Other writers were there. Becky Mushko, Amanda Cockrell, Kathleen Foucart, Amelia (I wish I had gotten her last name). It was great to talk about writerly things. Even though I’m not as far along in the process as the others, it was nice to be immersed in that world for a bit.

There was also a tasty lunch at Alejandro’s with lots of laughter and more writerly talk which was heaven. A ballerina pickup and then a trip to Black Dog Salvage. Have you ever been? You can wander around there for hours and not see everything. I love the old (and enormous) stained glass, doors, and mantels. My want list was long by the time we made it back to the marketplace area. In the midst of all the cool, vintage offerings there were paintings by local artists, a gallery and antique stored rolled into one! Joy! Oh, and there’s garden statuary outside. Lovely pieces-birdbaths, stone benches graced with rabbits and ornate gazebos. Really. Very fairytale-like. 

Here’s a pic of Tiffany and Olivia just inside the store.

And then there was tea and more goodness. We were so sad to see her drive away.

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There has also been a recent celebration of ballet accomplishments. This was the day we found out that a sweet friend made it into Junior Company at ballet. Olivia received her acceptance letter the next day which means another year of fun and hard work and growth. I couldn’t be more proud.

And speaking of dance, I never did share any photos from The Nutcracker, did I? Here is one of my favorites of Olivia.

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Posted on April 13, 2012 by tricia scott

A bit of luck on this Friday the 13th.
There’s a five-leaf in there. It’s there on the bottom right, I promise, though in the image one leaf seems to be in hiding. Olivia found that one. I read that five is for long life. When I was a little girl I had photo albums full of clover, my prize clover being an eight-leaf.

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Hummingbirds-part 1

Posted on April 12, 2012 by tricia scott

Hummingbirds! Oh, I love them. Did you know that these winged creatures are found only in the western hemisphere? Or that when the pilgrims arrived on our continent they met Native Americans wearing hummingbird earrings? In Mexico, kings were known to wear cloaks of hummingbird skin. I shudder to think of the how many sweet hummingbirds it would take to make an entire cloak, beautiful though it must have been. I prefer to imagine them instead as they were in the fairy tales, riding on the backs of swans or zipping along secret passageways to the underworld.

This is the second piece I’ve made including hummingbirds in the last few months. The first was created using a vintage image transfer and it’s hanging in my kitchen. I will make time to photograph and share that soon. The one below I created as the first of three pieces for our bare downstairs hallway using a photograph that I took of my daughter a month or so ago.

Along with hummingbird imagery, I was inspired by this quote by Norman Vincent Peale: Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities – always see them, for they’re always there.”

The hummingbirds represent the possibilities. The quote is written again and again around her body in the hopes that she will always remember the words.

Along with the photograph, book pages, acrylics, graphite and cold wax were also used on the 24×24 wood panel.

Thank you so much for stopping by. I’ve been a bit neglectful of my blog, for one reason or another finding it more handy to post life things on FB. I will try to be better about that in the coming months.

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