Local harvest cafe grand opening

Wierd photo

I took this wierd photo this morning after watering the garden.

Garden Cat

A cat sculpture next to a coleus plant in the garden.

James Carpenter

I attended a lecture by James Carpenter last night. His work is light and materials, particularly glass. He showed an early work where he set up a series of movie cameras along a river pointing straight down. They caught salmon swimming from one camera's view to the next. Then he projected the images on the floor of a gallery to create an 80 foot river of filmed images. So you could watch the salmon move from one frame on the floor to the next one. Also some very nice use of LED lights behind diffuse glass.

Happy Birthday, Emma!

My Garden

I took some photographs of my garden today. The iris blooms were fantastic.


And so were the tulips. And the asparagus has been great this year. Almost every day we have one or two stalks to throw in the stir fry for dinner.

Lilly in Etsy Pets

On Tuesday etsy.com published Lilly's story about her rising fame as a notecard model. Thanks to Alison and the great staff at etsy! You can find the article by clicking on the Lilly Article link in the Check Out... section on the right.

Niki at the Gardens

On Sunday I went to see the Niki de Saint Phalle show at the Missouri Botanical Gardens.






It began to rain and get rather chilly so I looked around the gift shop for a while. I found this great book called Cool Green Stuff by Dale Evans. It's full of great green products, many made with recycled materials and each one has a web site for more info.