Could it be the first crop of the season? If you don’t spread chemicals over your grass, you will most likely have these little yellow flowers springing up in your yard. If not chemically treated with weedkiller or fertilizers you can most likely use these flowers for supper. These dandelions are used in salads, at [...]
People journey all over the world to visit sacred places. Some go and stay for a while hoping for some life changing revelation. I have places I like to go to mainly to revisit a feeling I had when I was there. One place I like to visit is an old graveyard at Lake Hope [...]
We see so much beauty we take it for granted and miss all its wonders, all its varieties, all its colorfulness. We look at texture and we see smooth or rough, soft or hard. I am currently working with some very rough and ragged-looking tree bark and it is so beautiful in its intricacy and [...]
Helpers throughout our lives are the people who have influenced us and may have even changed the direction of our lives. In art, I had many influences but my earliest and biggest influence was my junior high art teacher. Her name, Mrs. Lobe. Our relationship was up, down and sideways all at one time. I [...]
You don’t need to ask the deaf if this is true. In my hometown just north of Pittsburgh a lot of people came from the Old Country. We had a lot of Irish, Italian, Polish, Syrian, actually in a few blocks we had most of the United Nations represented. But as a child, I learned [...]
There is an unusual show at the Gallery on High this month, flowers so colorful you can almost smell the fragrance. Kay Majka paints a lot of different subjects but her love for flowers really comes through in each of her paintings. I have known Kay and her husband for more than a few years. [...]
Green has a history of meaning. Green is growing. As I look out my window this morning my grass is turning from a light shade of brown to a rich green. The tree buds are coming out and they are a light green. So many people over the years have identified green as a color [...]
No, it’s nothing new to me. I’ve been here in varying degrees many times before. I have seen some of my friends run into the same situation. In some extreme cases it is referred to as burn-out. I’m not sure this is an accurate definition. It gives the connotation that one was once on fire [...]
