2012 calendar

A calendar....last moment, what else is new! 
Now if I can just get some printed.

Perfecto

...boxing day bargain...
my partner in all things finds a rode bike
and dreams of the tour begin to bubble in his fevered brain. 

Lingueforma pacifica

Trollinglures lingueforma pacifica

the Trollinglure in bloom

PEACE...and a good book

our  mailbox offers up a card or two this time of year...from stalwart friends and family members. Thank you...and while we have never really been big on sending cards for the holidays we do think of you and wish you the best...so here's to your very great health, a wealth of friends and family, a fever of creative curiosity for the new year...the stamina to pursue your interests and time to curl up with a good book this winter. May your firewood all be dry, your socks warm and your main squeeze close at hand. 

Owls between us...owls around us

 owls hid in the forest...middle of the day

nebulosus, nebulosa, nebulosum

TAKE ME TO THE GALLERY of JUNKYARD OWLS

Frost...lost and found

A wreath from the waste land

An annual tradition...
and wishes for
Peace in the Hood
(for our own very little hood and for the great big hood we all share)

Island Gallery show & Farmers Market

In the Ringside market


also....
FARMERS & ARTISANS MARKET
SATURDAY DECEMBER 17 th
11 am - 2 pm
Community Hall

We present a brief exhibit of lilliputian offerings
  to kick off the holidays.
Small is Beautiful. 

Where did it go? Rory and Boon

Now that the Christmas faire is over I have had some time ... so here is a piece for Rory and Boon....among others.
Things I have found (and put in here)...at the Free Store:

I found our own green door, a doll or two, René Discard...the scarecrow, kids gumboots, lots of coloured pencils, pressed glass salt cellar, an enormous teddy bear, figurine, cowboy boots, parasol, remote control, electric hot plate, one red hightop, a tennis ball and a beaded velvet bag.
One doll...central or south american, a water bottle, garden hose, a mask in grass, oven dial, bike wheel, bike seat, Hoover logo, salt shaker, bald eagle, two bears, some bikes in snow, water tank paint, a typewriter keyboard, flower pots, bike hubs and piano strings.bicycles, audio ports, school pencils and a raven.
 Signal generator dial?, a car tire in snow, the vandalism sucks sign, early bird book, propane tank wall, Doug's old stereo, a dolls head, bottles, paper mache fruit & vegies, figurine/doll, swim flipper, a few dinner plates, the moth & butterfly book (with pressed moth),....I am sure to be forgetting some thing in here.
 Propeller blades, typewriter keys, ceramic bowl, bike helmet, boy on bike, model train tracks, the hoodies sign, the Atlas owl, wooden cat, a blue lantern, 2010 calendar, little toy train flashlight,  unknown game racquet, somebodys triceratops, a doll, the most wonderful hat, brooms and the old sole moth, of course.
Rather fancy cowboy boots, a ridable carousel horse, very handy fly swatter, bike wheels, wooden spoons, this toy guitar, a basket ball, painted cat and one bower byrd. 
Also a  trike, some stove pipe, another chicken, 1950's airplane diagram, some monopoly money, the TV head guy (alarm clock, incense burner, TV, dragon shield, skis, pencils, action doll hands (gloves), more bike frames, hot water bottles & bike reflectors), a life size life jacket, one small puma gourd, sunflower yellow gumboots, scissors,  pencils, don't be making a mess sign and a couple of crockatoos made of candy & drink wrappers...
 Shiny sunglasses and a blue shovel, a rickety chair with a  teddy bear...a  keyboard and a dart board, knife, spoon and fork, more coloured pencils, basket ball, racquet, dobro (or brodo), small boy* with bow, toy...a tennis racquet, egg beater,and one more chicken (made of kitchen bits and bobs). 
I found a brake light, this ceramic captains head, more sunglasses, a great worm menu*, many beautiful buttons, three artichokes, one trunk, free store sign, very old plug, a big blue pencil, blue bike drop out and more model train tracks...and the dubCrow, of course.


**the little boy is from a collection of found photos from elsewhere and here is the worm  menu, found secured inside an old book.

The free store, with its ever changing array of discarded, exchanged, reinvented, pieced out toys, books, dolls, garments, jewelry and unidentified goods is a fantasy shop where no money is exchanged and the kid in all of us imagines a reincarnation...we stagger home under arm loads of potential. 


Thanks once more to the volunteers and staff at the Recycling Depot and the Free Store who make so much joy possible. Especially those who must see the same articles rotate through their stations week after week before the perfect match is made between the possible and the realization.