Thursday: December 23

 

San Antonio the after remodel on Broadway

Vincent's Letters....a very interesting artist painter

A book called (I believe) Vincent's Letters.....it's beautiful..Vincent Van Gogh

The State of Texas Library in Austin

On Texas Sacred Ground...the State Capital of Tejas.....in Austin

San Antonio is re-doing itself...some super nice old buildings and SA graffetti

Reflection

Pre-Covid Christmas...

Something considered "old" making room for the new, which will turn into "old"

A nice old building polished up for some expensive....something coming soon

Working on my arts and crafts....

Austin house...reminds me of the "Little Women" house in a disrepair stage

Poor Fort Sam "supposed active" now taking renters who are gov't....will probably be sold off

music, technology and art.....like moma in NY

The before re-do from above

Austin, TX Capital

Austin Graffetti....looks like Alien Font from outer space

more arts and crafts

more arty stuff

Farmland USA

City Alley USA

Austin River

President Bush's art works in Dallas

Austin Fire Crew USA

USA Dallas

Austin, Dallas, San Antonio miss Houston

and my crafts

October 14th: Thursday:

D-O-M-E-S-T-I-C....V-I-O-L-E-N-C-E

Fall weather...the cool air approaches

and you can feel it hit your face

October 

weather equals the month

of domestic violence

purple signifies the bruises which are left behind

and the invisible ones you don't see

like a gentle leaf which falls slowly by your feet

the slap and the fist

is strong.....and you wonder if you

will make it through the fall

you may and you may not...

the world out here is shallow

is there room...for one or two or three

and at times there is knot

when you knock on a tree

 the answer rings hallow

but you realize you are strong and need to be

for you are important....and should take care of thee

______________________________-

June 18th: Friday

Summer Blooms

Art Exhibit at Local Museum

Impressionist Painting at local Museum SAMA

CF Ray Quilt in Progress Stay Tune

More Impressionist......

And Modern Day Impressionism


Went to the local SAMA museum to checkout their impressionist painting exhibit

I was really inspired by the colors, the gloss and the amount of paint and brushstrokes on canvas
Also, comparing one painter with another and how they interpreted almost the same landscape

Decided to walk around and saw people enjoying themselves....after covid
and the flowers in bloom

And I am working on the CF ray quilt
Can hardly wait to put the batting and begin hand quilting it
and moving on to the next project
I actually cut out some pieces to a small storage bag and working with plastic for the first
time...will take photos of that project in order to continue with my
journal
Reading and reading....reading RBG one of the biographies on her plus her
little penguin dissents book, which is a series

I started on a Alexander Hamilton biography as well
watched a dvd on Mrs. Lowry and Son
I may have been the last person to watch this film
I really enjoyed it...except for the abuse poor L.S. Lowry had to endure
Lowry really loved painting...his story inspires me
It is very hot..over a 100 degrees...I look out the window and remember
the snow that was there only four months ago
Things really change rapidly

 

June: 8th

 Summer

Bridge...

Brooks Field Military Plane

International Airport Art

Public Transportation

Art Found on the Street Side Walk

A Beautiful Coffee and Tea Shop that opened a little before Covid and is now closed

The Former Coffee Shop...."HERE NOW"  No longer

Shoe Art found on the Sidewalk of Downtown

Another View

McNay Art

More McNay Art

Grace ......great read and great talent

Train....Graffiti...Art....before covid..Austin however has lots of graffiti that wasn't there
before covid?  Would that be considered Art or a Public outcry?

The new season has begun and the weather is very different

some places are receiving lots of rain and some are complaining

on NPR that they had their fireplaces going last week and now

it is in the 90's.....the weather is unpredictable......

The leaders of our country wonder why businesses can't find workers to fill

their shops.....but when covid happened so, many things changed

and so, many people passed away.....maybe they filled the shops?

I'm not sure why they wonder...they think everything should be the same

covid-19-the pandemic

wasn't just something or just anything.....

it really changed people's lives

I've been working on my CF ray quilt and also on a small

bag too keep my quilting supplies in

and reading......I graduated last month with my paralegal degree

and I'm happy I don't have to study......at least for now

one can learn something new everyday....or by attending school

I now have a Bachelor's degree in Art History with a minor in History

And two Associate of Applied Science degrees: one in fashion design and the

other in paralegal studies

And one year on my Master's degree in legal studies completed

Do I know Microsoft Suites (yes)

Do I know about Legal Research (yes)

Do I know how to use Westlaw (yes)

Do I know how to read and write (yes)

Can I get my Public Notary (yes)

Can I pass a background check (yes)

Just some really "smart" questions asked during some of my 

Interviews?

 

March 5th: Land of Was

I was driving today and noticed this old building about to be demolished and it made me sad....because although I appreciate the new I really love the old. I thougt I would take a photo in order to remember what was there before it went away. I'm glad I did because then I could see they had demolished and old beautiful house, which was a home to someone not a converted business. Lots of feral cats use to live there. There is a photo of one of them still there minus the people who lived there. It reminded me of when I was getting my stuff out of storage and went to throw a box in the dumpster...I noticed lots of photos of a family, which had been thrown away. I had wondered what had happened to them. I noticed the business about to be demolished was called at one time...the land of was. And I thought, yes, everything seems to be turning into the land of was.....out with old in with the new...in a very careless way. Then one day the supposed new will be old....When I was about to leave I noticed this foreign monopoly card left behind the rubble. It was still a monopoly card with the words....Deed, Morgtage and money. Yes, life has become a monopoly game of life....people owing back rent, back mortgages because of covid....real estate prices pretty high...some dropping their small houses for larger ones...while others have no home with a view or about to get kicked out of their current apartment or home.....the homeless with simple tents and those getting mowed down as well. So, the monopoly card really hit home.....sort of like Lucy and her awful real estate..it's all about the real estate Charlie Brown......I decided to show some photo of flowers from before covid and my sampler I'm still working on and my Ray Quilt by CF carolyn friedlander. I decided not to edit any of these photos because I just didn't...and so, some are grainy not so great lighting etc.....just real. I'm happy but you know just worried about things like a normal..............all about the green charlie brown......some things aren't for sale though...and human life shouldn't be even if its attached to the new ugly.

february 19th: snow storm

I wanted to write labels under the photos, but blogger has changed again and I can't write the labels anymore.....the quilt at the very bottom is from a quilter artist who showed their quilt at the Houston Quilt Festival before covid. Sorry I don't have the quilter's name; however, because of the snow storm in tejas I thought I would add it to the blog. Some of the other photos I took sometime ago, but the snow storm photos are from this week--I think Monday. It was an experience..especially when there isn't any power and it is below freezing. I had a roof over my head, but wonder about the homeless or the elderly who need more help than others. I love art having majored in Art History so I added this painting, which I love, but never posted. These are photos from the city where I live and the quilt photo is from where I use to live. I want to start posting things which I make, create, bake, cook etc...or read. Right now, I'm trying to finish a book written on RBG...it's interesting. Life has really changed....I'm sure for some people out there who deal with the snow all the time it is no big deal when they live in Chicago etc... or if they are in California they are probably oblivious to any of this going on....sort of like everyone else when it happens to others in another part of the country and it isn't happening to them. I guess it is human nature? Right now besides studying and trying to get everything back on track because of the storm..I have bad water coming out of the kitchen faucet and I have no idea who is going to fix that...since the apartment community where I live don't seem.....to be really great with the communication...and I'm watching QuiltConttogether and working on my Ray Quilt from Carolyn Friedlander. I need to post some photos of that work in progress. Also, the firefighters as ususal had to be out a lot because of all of this...and our local leaders I felt really stepped up to the plate and were really visible-despite the challenges, which they aren't use to. Until next time..............

saturday, october 3rd:

My car is in the shop again and it is only two years old. I purchased it new. I took good care of it. So, I wonder what is up with my car? This is the second time I took the car into the shop....stay tuned with that. I live in Texas. I live in San Antonio. I've lived in different parts of Texas, but I'm a native Californian. Maybe that is why I'm having problems with my car. I've lived in Tejas for a very long time..... Before taking my car into the shop I was at a stop light along with lots of others waiting for the light to turn green. I was looking around and saw another homeless person sitting out by the curbside.....I wondered about that person and how there are so, many people in need. Sometimes when I can I try to give them some change or what have you....however, this time I didn't.....someone else did. The homeless person got up quickly and I wondered why? The person behind me gave the person their food they had just purchased somewhere along with their ice tea. I don't know who the stranger was in the car.....but I say to you...how I love you let me count the ways. I love the thought...I love the kindness..I love the gesture....which this human being showed to another. From my perspective kindness isn't abound-like it was at one time. I took a walk to the library today to pick up another library book. Because of Covid-19 you can't go inside the library, but can order books then pick-up the media. They put your items in a plastic shopping bag and place the package on a table outside with your name. It is sort of like shopping for a book since it is in a shopping bag. Maybe that is all a person needs--to feel like they purchased something, but didn't? I just happened to stumble upon some acorns while walking away from the library. I collect them. I felt like I struck gold and the right tree because I have never seen anything quite so, beautiful as these (again) beautiful acorns. I can't wait to do something with them. I definitely want to draw and paint them on paper. I already took a photo of them. Above you can see some of my library books, which I've read and will read and I am reading. The other books belong to me. Art books. April showers may bring May flowers, but October and Fall bring beautiful, brown, round Acorn flowers. And there is something wrong with blogger and the setup.