Postscript
June 12, 2013 @ 8:18 pm | Filed under: Photos, Rilla
It seems all that wisdom is exhausting.
Archive for the ‘Photos’ Category
Cantering Horse, by Rilla
April 29, 2013 @ 5:18 pm | Filed under: Art, Photos, Rilla
Companion to last month’s Galloping Horse. She’s still working hard on getting those legs just so, as you see. I’m loving this chance to watch a young artist hone her skills. She’s made big strides (so to speak) already.
I believe next up is Trotting Horse. All three are from the horse page in the Usborne Book of Drawing.
Aha*
April 18, 2013 @ 5:33 am | Filed under: Photos
Testing the Pocket app from my phone
Where do you enter the title?
*found it.
Snapshots
March 7, 2013 @ 7:52 pm | Filed under: Assorted and Sundry, Family, Photos
* The year’s first poppy. Stunning as they are when fully open, this is how I love them best: just peeking out from under their green elf caps.
* Rilla’s first serious horse. She worked for ages, following the instructions in the Usborne Book of Drawing. What I love most here is seeing her several erased attempts to get the legs and tail just so.
* The tulips Krissy brought me back from Amsterdam, that time I couldn’t go. I adore tulips. Growing them this way, all mystery, three mute brown bulbs with no hint of the vivid hues encoded in their DNA, is the best possible fun. Now I want to grow mystery tulips always.
* Shazzzzzzam.
At first this post was just pictures, but then I went back and added words.
January 24, 2013 @ 9:00 am | Filed under: Assorted and Sundry, Family, Photos
Some tempting new review copies arrived: The Water Castle, a middle-grade by Megan Frazer Blakemore, and Flora and the Flamingo by Molly Idle—gorgeous art on that one, reminiscent of the German illustrator Nikolaus Heidelbach, whose name I was recently wracking my brain to recall.
Simple Pictures Are Best (illustrated by Tomie de Paola) is a book I remember giggling over with my little sisters long ago. Now I get to hear my kids giggle over it. And The Little House remains at the tippy-top of Huck’s best-loved books list.
Rose likes baking. I like cookies. We’re a good match.
This time last year I was heading into a garden-lit binge: that wonderful collection of letters between Katharine S. White and Elizabeth Lawrence, which led to more books (rereads and first-time reads) by each, and some new bulbs in my garden. This year, oh joy! Netgalley delivered to my Kindle a new collection of Eudora Welty’s gardening letters, Tell About Night Flowers, forthcoming from University of Mississippi Press. This is the sort of thing that makes me giddy. This publisher is also responsible for the fascinating (so far; I’m not finished) book Crockett Johnson and Ruth Krauss: How an Unlikely Couple Found Love, Dodged the FBI, and Transformed Children’s Literature. I have many treasured books written and/or illustrated by these two, and until this book I had no idea they were a couple. I love literary couples.
What are you reading right now?
She’s drawing right now.
January 17, 2013 @ 9:31 pm | Filed under: Art, Photos, Rilla
Year after year, kid after kid, those Draw Write Now books continue to inspire.
Don’t ask me, I just blog here
January 6, 2013 @ 10:15 am | Filed under: Family, Photos, These People Crack Me Up
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