Tag: Texas: Weather

Endarkenment

~ Liz A ~ 18 Comments

We were fortunate to experience a total eclipse in 2017 when we just happened to be in St Louis … but it wasn’t planned and we didn’t have the special glasses

We were much better prepared for the annular eclipse last October, which we experienced with our Austin grandkids

Two days later I was lucky enough to spot this little gem of a painting on Instagram, which I gifted to Don last Christmas …

It was painted en plein aire by local artist Gena Destri, who graciously offered to sell it to me after I sent her a DM …

And now, our third eclipse in seven years looks like it will be clouded, but we will still experience the endarkenment of the land … it should be awesome

Another way of going

~ Liz A ~ 14 Comments

I’ve made two more patched blocks for the table cloth, this time a mash-up of Josef Albers’ squares with log cabin construction.

The first is a take on Billy Keen’s No Path …

The second is a nod to one of Don’s roadrunner assemblages, which he made with deconstructed pliers and glass eyes leftover from his dad’s decoy carving days …

Meanwhile, Don is expanding the garden, inspired no doubt by his recent studies at the Wildflower Center. He also potted the tomato seedlings we picked up last week after our jaunt to the Blanton Museum. The plan is to bring them in at night until it stays reliably warm outside …

And as I took the still photos, I caught some movement out of the corner of my eye: an anole taking in a bit of sun on the fence rail …

Gotta love Texas at this time of year …

Triangulating

~ Liz A ~ 13 Comments

I often have a hard time putting colors together. So I decided to tear strips of virtually every linen I had on hand …

and then started to put colors together in triads to see what combinations appealed to me …

I’ve only just begun.

And I confess that the idea was inspired by Josef Albers’ decades-long series of paintings entitled Homage to a Square …

which are most often four colors, but I’m more at the New York Times Tiles level …

Obviously my triads are fairly random in size, so their final arrangement may be strongly influenced by that aspect. In any case, I expect they will most likely end up on the table cloth project currently residing on the back of my stitching chair …

which is gloriously sun-soaked today, even if it is still below freezing outside.

Thank goodness for small blessings.