Saturday, July 18, 2015

Maybe...

maybe (I wonder) if I posted once a month that would be enough (or something).

And in July, this post would be an update of the past few months.

So… to recap

In MAY,

 I fitted out my garage studio, hemmed 6 ready made drapery panels in my bedroom
 (and learned it's probably just as easy to make them from scratch) 


 built a table from pipes,

then

 flew to Macon, Georgia


 to meet my Love and the newest member of our extended family,


Ruby 

and expand my historical reference


 by visiting Warm Springs

and then HERE


 for some of these.


After that I headed on to another week in Michigan to play




with three little butterflies, who are well into their 8th year. 

Then I flew home for a chilly Memorial Day & a girlfriend weekend at one of my all time favorite places in the world…



The Mabel Dodge Luhan House & Taos, New Mexico

In June,

I painted some walls &

turned these


into these


hung a few more light fixtures



 and then flew To meet my Guy in Cody, Wyoming before we stepped into the

Never Never Land of Yellowstone National Park.










Yellowstone is where I began my life as I know it today almost 6 years ago to the month.
This time, which was my fourth visit to this amazing place, had me touch and see almost every magnificent site in the park, before heading on to

Grand Teton National Park




Jackson, Wyoming


which was quite civilized & one of our favorite stops…



and Sun Valley, where we watched Olympic skaters practice their spins...


visited Ernest Hemmingway's Memorial and grave...


and dipped our toes in a mountain lake….

before we headed to...




 Salt Lake City, Temple Square,







and Moab, Utah, Arches & Canyon Lands National Parks,




and then Shiprock, New Mexico the sacred Navajo birthplace,





and the Salmon Ruins



 before heading home to Albuquerque.

July
has me regrouping before heading out on another three week cross country driving trip back to Michigan to visit with friends and family with a return trek through the center of Colorado before we land back in our own beds in August.

After all this busy-ness and travel, I'm home today, still unpacking my former life into this little house, asking myself one question.

Am I still the person I used to be?

Release, release, release.



4 comments:

  1. wow. you have been a bit busy...and then there is that bowl with the concentric circles. sublime. may you continue to love this traveling time.

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    1. Thank you Velma! And I couldn't help but wonder if the Chacoans were the first to put perfectly balanced handles on their cups…..

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  2. With an itinerary like that I wouldn't be the person I was yesterday let alone the one I was six years ago!
    :-)

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  3. stunning.
    i remember well driving through the grand tetons 6 years ago [really ? !!!! ] on our way to the first YNP visit and the tears streaming down my face. such beauty. such countryside. it felt something like Home.
    those grand babies ...they are definitely yours :-) .
    wondering really if are any of us who we were 6 years ago ? me , no . let go , release and keeping the good bits xoxo
    ahhhhhh Taos , and right on your door .

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