Some of Vashon's wonderful yard art. 

"bloom" for Illustration Friday This is my first submission for Illustration Friday. I’m excited to participate. I’ve been challenging myself to take pictures and sketch every day and it’s working! Even though my kids and I have been sick for a week, I’ve continued to keep creating. It’s really keeping me in a good space…

I taste God in my lover’s mouth In the thrust of him I feel the force of creation In the release Our souls merge Divine Union

It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue by Bob Dylan You must leave now, take what you need, you think will last. But whatever you wish to keep, you better grab it fast. Yonder stands your orphan with his gun, Crying like a fire in the sun. Look out the saints are comin’ through And it’s…

Another face of God 

Photo by John. I turn 40 today. I absolutely love this picture that taken yesterday because in it I see both the little girl I carry inside of me (who I’ve only really been acquainted with for the past two years) and the woman I have become. I have learned a lot these past 40…

the wind is howling the sickness has taken hold my foolish hearts aches