MonthMay 2022

ink sketch of flowered vase on purple and blue doily

Posted May 31, 20221 Comment art

Stilling Life

in art and in the world’s chaos

A finger pointing “an empty hand, a pointing finger, is still a conversation, a voice to be heard

Posted May 30, 2022 America

Daily Create Ode to… Guns Do Kill

Take away the gun, and what’s left is a finger pointing in conversation— and it may be a heated one, but no one gets killed.

Posted May 29, 2022 art

MayDoodle Poppy Palette

When the snapper doesn’t work, just draw the elements…

Posted May 29, 2022 CLMOOC

When the Grandkids Were Little

Fairy rocks hid treasure

Posted May 28, 2022 art

MayDoodle This time: Seeds

Seeds included this time

Storm clouds over granite bluff above leafy tree and basketball hope with barely visible circling birds of prey

Posted May 28, 2022 America

The answer is to welcome

Welcome each other. Love thy neighbor.

Posted May 28, 2022 art

Daily Create Knight and Snail

Slime of time…we cannot stop it

Two sets of floral/insect repeating patterns, each with five different designs but with a dark cyan or a red-orange background

Posted May 27, 2022 art

MayDoodle Limited Palette 21

Florals. Insects. Repeating Patterns. #clmooc #warmup4art #maydoodle Five designs. Two backgrounds.

sunset sparkles on the water as gentle waves lap the shore and protruding rocks beneath the bare autumn trees

Posted May 27, 2022 CLMOOC

Daily Create Soon Yesterday

sparkles on the wave’s edge

Autumn yellow and green leaves overlook an ocean bay

Posted May 26, 2022 art

Daily Note Daily Create Ingredients

Wrap in the warmth of relief

Floral pattern in four versions of background color

Posted May 25, 2022 art

MayDoodle Insect Floral Pattern

Another limited palette floral — with summer insects too

Wooden “all are welcome” Ladybug sign on wall

Posted May 25, 2022 America

Wherever You Go

Live with and in peace

A strand of dried grass shaped in a heart on the shadowed sidewalk with this poem: To bear… Laughter I think I hear— And I turn, but nothing near My heart in sadness falls He’s only a shadow now His right to life, safe from harm, Killed by some warped “right to bear arms” Oh. Oh. To bear him in my arms… Sheri Edwards 052422 145.365.22 Poetry/Photography

Posted May 24, 2022 America

To Bear

Daily Note Every day, a photograph, a poem. I wandered through my day as usual— a songfest via the Daily Create which inspired a piece of art. Music that, though … Continue Reading To Bear

Blue Raindrops behind coral sun with words “Tryin’ to find the sun”

Posted May 24, 2022 America

Trying to Find the Sun

Find the sun—- vote! That’s real freedom.

Elderly woman in long dress with piano behind which is covered with a delicate doily across the top

Posted May 23, 2022 CLMOOC

Lacey Reminders

Histories in lace

Crocheted doily draped across black office chair— One of my grandmother’s antimacassars - she also crocheted matching ones for the armrests

Posted May 23, 2022 art

Daily Create Invitation to Create

Another history lesson