the “thinning of the veils” occur at two times regularly in each year. it refers to our ability in clarity of vision (pineal) to connect with the Spirit of living with it’s ebbs and flows of the changes we experience in plant and animal growth and the expansions and contractions of matter occurring at these seasonal times. they are calendar times half way between Spring and Summer and Fall and Winter. Late May and early June, ie. Beltane, May Day and Easter are celebrated when life emerges, resurrects or Springs upward. In mid Fall during late October and early November the wholidays of All Saints Day, Dia de los Muertos, Halloween and Samhain, etc. are celebrated in the Northern Western World. this next week marks this time when we descend, to collect with harvesting, grounding into ourselves and preparing to hibernate with the darker months of Winter. 
~it is a time for openess and flexability in preparation for standing our grounded being and expanding with contraction in embracing all creation~...
To every one, enJoy this whole week with the connections and celebrations!...

skulls

pencil on paper

18" x 24"

1980

siblings

digital triptych

shadow of the Lunar Eclipse Sunset

9/28/15

digital

snow/crate grid 

digital

witness with Nature

                                              Japanese Pagoda

the tiers with odd numbers are strongly favoured by Chinese numerology and Buddhism. they represent yang and the positive principle. Pagoda is an auspicious symbol of education and protection in Feng Shui.

a side view of the Earth pigments with snow and flower box "minimal installation" struck me today along with two other flower boxes on the N railing and E railing of the porch as...

pagodaesques

East

West

North

in the fog and rearranging defining of art terms and artists themselves 

will "installation" be "installation" tomorrow?...

snow/crate grid 

digital

witness with Nature

snow/crate grid 

digital

     

Fall Phoenix

found art

digital

Blueberry blanket 4 pt.

from N, E, S & W

found art

"pancake on Black"

found, and not eaten art

"pigments return with Earth to Ocean"

(digital abstraction)

Sunrise Sanctuary

a mother Black Bear and her two cubs visited "Dock and the Apple Tree" this morning. I had just jumped into my clothes with awakening to the first frost this morning and looked out the kitchen window for this wonder filled visit. Grabbing my cell and excitedly attempting unobtrusiveness to them I stepped out on the deck, slick with icy frost, and snapped this one blurry eyed shot before she ushered her babes into the woods... 

enThanks Black Bear for your co-creativity!!!

summer reflections

   "summer of storms"

the fires of electrically charged summer storms appear to be being care taken and tempered by a White Dragon energetic...

soft Pine

through the cat tails to the water lilies

"Yellow Dock Rumex crispus Field theories"

These Redbud bushes planted by Jenna O'Brien https://www.facebook.com/Viridissima where I'm staying form this solid rectangular in contrast and leading to the front of the larger solid rectangular of the woods behind. Viewed from the house the yard space is defined by the rectangular wooded borderline. Within it are the rectangular house, the Redbud to the East and two oblong or squircle gardens to the west of the house...

The Redbud is somewhere in between square and circle and none of this may have anything to do with why this Redbud has fascinated me since arriving here...

Redbud or Red Bud 

3 exerts from http://www.henriettesherbal.com/eclectic/dmna/cercis.html

"There are five to ten flowers in each cluster and these clusters are produced so thickly on the branches that the tree when in bloom is a mass of red and a conspicuous object even at a distance. The flowers have a pleasant, tart taste, and are said to have been used as pickles by the early French settlers."

"Cercis Canadensis contains neither alkaloid, nor crystalline glucosid that we could discover and the only constituent of marked characteristic was the tannin that gave the astringency. This tannin was extracted by alcohol and water, and freely by glycerine. It precipitated ferric salts, blue if in dilute solution, and immediately threw all traces of gelatine from solutions containing that body. Owing to the small size of the tree, it is probable that the bark will never be of sufficient abundance to compete in the market with oak and hemlock as a tanning agent, but the richness of the tannin commends it to consideration. Should the bark of this tree come into use as a medicinal agent, it must necessarily be as a vegetable astringent. Owing to the abundance of other well known astringents, however, that may act more kindly, at least being well understood, it is improbable that Cercis will be used in medicine to any extent."

"MEDICAL HISTORY AND PROPERTIES.—Cercis has never been used in medicine. The dispensatories do not honor it by a position, even Prof. King omiting it from the American Dispensatory. Neither Thomsonian nor Eclectic recognize it and Regular medicine bears no evidence of the existence of such a drug beyond a few brief notes, published by Dr. Wm. R. Smith, Sr. , [New Preparations, Geo. S. Davis, Detroit. Minn.. 1879, pp, 141, 251.] who states, "I have had over twenty years' experience in the use of Cercis Canadensis, and can, with confidence, recommend it to the profession. In all cases were an astringent [We wrote our paper on the chemistry of the drug before consulting this paper of Dr. Smith.] is indicated it will give satisfaction, and it has the advantage over all other articles of that class, that it can be given when the stomach is irritable, without increasing the trouble, making it very valuable in the treatment of the diarrhoeas peculiar to infancy. But it is in the treatment of chronic diarrhoea and dysentery that its curative action is most manifest. During the war I used it at the Post Hospital at Cairo, in the treatment of that scourge of the western army,—camp diarrhoea,—with extraordinary success." Dr. Smith mixed one fluid ounce of Cercis with three fluid ounces of aromatic syrup of rhubarb, and in chronic dysentery administered a teaspoonful every four hours. In chronic diarrhcea he administered the fluid extract of Cercis in teaspoonful doses after each discharge. He also employed Cercis in leucorrhoea and gleet."

"Redbud Cercis canadensis inner bark highly astringent. has been used with diarrhea and dysentery, also a folk remedy for cancer/leukemia. Flowers are edible and appear in early spring before leafing." - James Duke Medicinal Plants and Herbs of the Eastern/Central US

"Lake Garfield dream time"