Finish each day and be done with it.
You have done what you could.
Some blunders and absurdities have crept in;
Forget them as soon as you can.
Tomorrow is a new day.
You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
–Ralph Waldo Emerson
Spring time in Colorado is about snow.
It’s the heavy and wet kind of snow that takes down branches that are just beginning to bud.
The state gets most of its snow accumulation during March and April.
Those are the 
months when people get antsy to declare spring has arrived only to have their tree limbs fall, their tomato plants freeze and their lovely flowers droop with the early planting.
It’s wonderful and cyclical and predictable.
And it’s all ok. Because this little dose of 
winter will turn the lawns green and add some creative contrast to the dull brown colors that cover the area. The browns are leftover mulch, leaves, twigs and branches that have yet to be cleaned.
The snow makes for a lovely canvas that disappears as the sun warms the ground.
The best things about these last few storms is the hope they offer of spring. It’s here … well, almost.
I hope spring is unfolding ever so gently for you in your world as well.
More Fort Collins art at the First Fridays Gallery Walk …
Big exhibit at the Fort Collins Museum of Art -
One mask, MANY ARTISTS, colors, ideas, variety, love, time, dedication and the most amazing results… GO VISIT THE MUSEUM and smile away the day!
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“Good Penmanship”. A show by Fort Collins artist Elizabeth Morisette celebrating the cursive alphabet. showing Friday through Saturday at the Community Creative Center, 200 Matthews street! Artist Reception Friday April 4, 6-9.
Find a way to see this exhibit!
And so, the following images are cursive wrapped in fabric…colorful, cool, creative!
This is how I learned to write. Big, Bold, Clear handwriting. The nuns expected it. My sons were not taught cursive and thus most of their correspondance is printed.
M is for Margekatherine!
Good Penmanship by Elizabeth Morisette: Fort Collins Art Exhibit (2014)
Penmanship in colorful fabric!
On display at Carnagie Library, Fort Collins.
Enjoy!
I went to a St Patty’s Day parade yesterday. The streets were lined with people of all ages, tons of strollers, lots of dogs and everyone was bundled up. When the parade began the sky was clear, as it progressed the wind began to blow and gray clouds covered the sky. There were over 80 entries in this parade so it lasted a very long time. I walked to the beginning so I could see all 80 entries but I was unable to stay for the whole event. I was chilled to the bone.
One troop of dancers that came along was dressed in very short dresses. They didn’t have any leggings on and it was evident they were EXTREMELY cold. As I watched them, I remembered how my legs used to look like that when I walked home from school in my plaid uniform skirt. Whether it was sub-freezing weather, blowing snow or just winter weather … I remember it was brutal.
Warm and happy to be in the parade!
Arriving at school it took forever for my body to warm up and feel normal again. The return trip home was dreaded just as much. Somewhere along the line, I started to wear long pants under my uniform. It wasn’t cool – in fact, it was pretty dorky but finally my legs were no longer tender to the touch.
I haven’t been that cold in a very long time but seeing those young dancers put me right back in my school years in upstate NY. It was a relief to get home and get warm again!
I is for the Irish in your bonny eyes my dear
R is right for when you’re right, you have no cause to fear
E is for Eileen, my mother’s name I mean and
L is for the love I have for that sweet colleen
A is for the angels who are watching over you
N is never fear, keep smiling through
D is for your daddy’s lesson that I pray will be a blessing
Happy St. Patrick’s Day to you!
It’s amazing weather here on this lovely evening in Northern Colorado.
The birds are singing, the children next door are playing, geese are flying south and the sun is shining. My head cold is gone and my body is happy to be in motion again.
The yard is raked, the bike ride is over and now with the daylight savings time in effect it is light and bright and warm outside.
How warm? Currently at 5:48 pm on this gorgeous Sunday March 9 evening it is 72 degrees!
Spring has sprung and it’s evident by the amount of people on their bikes, in their yards, on the trails and just outside. It’s a thing of beauty.
And this lovely weather will be here with us until Tuesday. Then more snow.
For now –true bliss!
I have a head cold today. You know the drill – runny nose, sneezing, sore body, fullness in the head.
Therefore I am drinking my special tea…
In the daytime the tea consists of fresh-squeezed lemon juice, honey and hot water.
When the sun goes down and I’m in my warm jammies and robe then I add ginger brandy to the mix. It’s sure to stop the cough and put me to sleep.
I don’t get colds very often so when I do I treat it like a holiday!
Lucky me, huh?
A dad telling his 2 sons about their lives
Stepping out....
Painting with oil pastels
Adventures in Building
I am a weaver of words / spinning stories / to remind us of who we are / to draw us within the story to the very heart of HER
Doing Something Good Every Day
Probably Inappropriate...
A little light
Finding my way back out of motherhood -- while mothering
Stuff and things.
