Invitation to a New Blog!

Hello Dear Readers!

Many of you follow us for news about our family adventures. You have indulged me, of late, in my writing endeavors and I thank you.

Beginning tomorrow, I will be focusing more on my personal writing, spiritual exploration, photography, and assimilation of life into words. Some of this writing and photography, I will be sharing on a NEW BLOG called Lessons from the Backroad. This is a new place for me, but I welcome and encourage your participation. Join me in discussions, storytelling, sharing!

If you are a follower of this blog, you will not be automatically subscribed to the new one. If you'd like to take part, simply visit the new blog by clicking the link above. Then look in the left-hand margin for the spot to subscribe via email, or across the top to subscribe through an RSS feed.

Stay with us on our family journey.
See you on the backroad!

Namaste,
Jeannie

Georgia O'Keefe

This week in our art curriculum, we are studying Georgia O'Keefe. I am so excited. She has been my favorite artist as long as I can remember. 

I don't know if it is the movement, the scale, the color...I know I admire her sense of adventure and her love for the landscapes of the southwestern United States. When people ask with whom, living or dead, I would like to have dinner...it is this woman. I am knowingly romanticizing her, I am, but there is something about her.

This is my favorite O'Keefe painting. 

It is titled Pond in the Woods

And her flowers...

Two Calla Lilies on Pink

Oriental Poppies

Her flowers have always inspired my own photography...

Even the scale I like when photographing people...

With the help of a photo editor...

...I can pretend.

Thanks, Ms O', for your power, beauty, and inspiration.

Hair...

Hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair

Flow it, show it

Long as God can grow it

My hair

I want it long, straight, curly, fuzzy

Snaggy, shaggy, ratty, matty

Oily, greasy, fleecy

Shining, gleaming, streaming

Flaxen, waxen

Knotted, polka-dotted

Twisted, beaded, braided

Powdered, flowered, and confettied

Bangled, tangled, spangled, and spaghettied!

Oh say can you see

My eyes if you can

Then my hair's too short

lyrics from the musical HAIR

My boy has very definite ideas about his hair. He likes it long most of the time. Hair's just hair, and a safe and reversible way for him to express himself. So, he decides.

This week, he started guitar lessons. He has an electric guitar and a band in his future...so he says. But, his hair got in the way of seeing the strings so he decided to have it cut today.

But it'll only stay short until he no longer has to watch the strings to play...

...and he says the bangs will be long enough shortly to fly around when he does a little head bangin' while he's playing. :)