penguin parade

 A penguin parade - 

what more could we do to encourage winter

to march away and not return?

We have experienced the most gorgeous spring-like weather

this past week,

but the clouds are returning and a little panic is setting in.

We are on to paper clay birds in bright spring-like colors

and the most brilliant collages with the students driving cars full of their pets.

You will have to wait to see them... sorry.

I try not to slurp...really I do

 The sun is OUT,

and this cappuccino sits before me

in a quintessential Seattle coffee house

teasing me to go slow...

but I can't.

Nothing sadder than an empty cup.

Did I mention the sun is a 

glorious yellow disk

radiating down on us?

Oh lovely day.

Just loving the ScratchCam app...

can't get enough grunge in my photos lately.

polar bear party

What would a polar bear party look like?

 Would they dance in front of a sunset?

 Eat a snowflake or two?

 Love the silhouetted trees?

 Be in awe of the colors

 and ready to sleep after so much fun?

wish I could party with them...

How about you?

please play with your food...

It's been a hard week...

After the storm ended our heater went on strike,

so we got a new one ($$$ sigh)

and then the power went out again.

Our yard looks like a bomb went off in it - 

looked kinda nice when it was covered in snow,

but now the two broken trees look really sad.

Well this link to the photo above and many more

cheered me up so take a look if you need a smile -

and who doesn't?
I will be back later with two new kiddo projects
and some happy art news too.

34 degrees and rising...

I so want to visit Anthropologie to see their new windows...

but must patiently wait for the snow and ice 

and extra layer of snow on top to melt.

Maybe tomorrow I will get to see the glorious color in these displays

instead of all this whiteness...

 7 inches of snow, then 1 inch of ice and then more snow -

never seen anything like it.

And of course no power too,

 but thankfully it came back on in the night.

 Two poor trees couldn't handle the ice...

You wouldn't believe how loud it is listening to the ice come off these trees -

it thunders and tinkles and just sounds so odd.

And I hope he hasn't cracked in the snow and ice.

I should have been a good mom and brought him inside.

Hope you are somewhere warm and sunny 

or staying cuddled up inside

just like this guy...

for some odd reason he hates the vacuum

when it is running,

but adores curling up on it to sleep.

outside, inside?

the grass is always greener...

or should I say 'the snow is always whiter?'

snow day - yay!

It all goes by so fast...

Oh earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you...

Do human beings ever realize life while they live it  - 

every, every minute?

Thornton Wilder, Our Town