Artichoke Flowers

Recently I was gifted with a fantastical artichoke flower!

Cabbage - by John Mullins
"Cabbage is like a folded-up flower all tight and closed up from the world or like an artichoke. Why are you closed up from the world, why? You tell me that everyone is closed up from the world? No, that's not true. Here. Let me help you open your leaves, oh leafy one."

Potato & Peanut Birds

Once there was a family of peanut birds and they all gathered together and went looking for their mother ...

At last they found her in a sack of potatoes! She grew a fancy headdress and tail just for them. Together they wandered around happily in the forest, singing their love songs ~!~

Anshin & Her Timekeeper

My dear friend of a neckpiece - 'The Timekeeper in the Garden of Shells' - has journeyed to Pennsylvania to live with the wondrous Gail Schroeder and her sublime life-size Japanese raku sculpture named Anshin. In Japanese, 'Anshin' means 'contentment, calmness and serenity.

My heartfelt thanks go straight to you Gail for recognizing something kindred in the 'Timekeeper" and thus inviting her to reside with you and Anshin. I just know that the little timekeeper feels very content, calm and serene with you both - and she's probably even forgotten about counting shells for a while!

Dear Sweet Gail, Thank You for 'cherishing' the timekeeper - and in the words of Rabindranath Tagore, I say to you again:
"Let not my thanks to thee rob my silence of its fuller homage."

Special *thanks* to Robbie & William!