"where I live, the earth is sore, and people are suffering. battles  are fought, over and over again. people say it has always been this  way and will never change. can it change, Old Turtle? can we make it  change?"

 OLD TURTLE and the BROKEN TRUTH...a story for children by douglas  wood...beautifully illustrated by jon j. muth.

year end shadows...

shadow: shape produced by a body coming between rays of light and a surface.

leadership changes and fortunes are lost, but winter continues its yearly march...disregarding all fiscal forecasts.

evening bag design, for a friend...

freeing the creatures from inside my head...

circle exercises...

putting stylus to plexi, and brain back to work...

enjoy a quiet night in an uneasy world...if you've ever been without power, food, shelter, money or potable water, you know how fortunate most of us are to open the front door to holiday lights.

thank you for visiting this year...

meditation on a graceful exit...

breakfast nook...

pool lights...

pool snake...

still water, wild universe...

tropical lite-cicles...

coffee, with dinosaurs and roses...

a bowl full of clouds...

scuffs and scrapes...

life is but a dream...

tucked under my pillow, in the dark...

kids and their pets, sharing yoga mat sweat...

siblings on my mind...

siblings in the  circus, who share appendages...not enough necks to go around.

a leaf, and concrete...

should have used sunscreen...

gas pump, boredom one...

eyelashes, wearing turquoise mascara...

night lights...

i've been tagged by hidden in france, click on my profile for interesting "choses".

air show, blue and steel theme...

contrast...

steel...

configuration of steel...

strength in connections...

sensory appendages for buildings...

city skies...

water under the bridge...st.vigor on the eure. 

many floors up...

braille tracks...

my heart stopped for a split second...i do like trees.

more trees...near ecole simone signoret.

it's been one week since i came home to discover that color informal was named blog of note. thank you blogger, and welcome new visitors. 

this was my daily walk for one school year, in france. nice for daydreaming, with wild violets surfacing in the spring.

private alphabet...

open to receive...

praiseful...

graveyard markers, los alamos...

tree cemetery, los alamos...

meercats, known for their gift wrapping skills...

basic written symbols...

bookmarks in sand..

square worm holes...