south florida weaving

more roses

i'm really enjoying growing roses.  
not sure why i didn't bring in more rose plants to my old yard but they're doing nicely here in the south.  i've been getting them from heirloom roses and they seem like really solid & healthy plants when they arrive. 
it's a lot of watering each evening to keep three balconies full of plants going in 85 - 90 degree heat.  so far so good though.  everyone keeps telling me that the flowers won't live though the summer here but i don't believe it yet. 

with roses

linda nieuwstad

i like the work of artist linda nieuwstad .
also enjoying this collaboration with piet hein eek. 
more pics here . . 

porch flowers

 

mostly keeping track of the flowers i'm growing & gathering here in florida 
over on my instagram feed  ...
there is an abundance of sweet peas right now,
& really excited for the david austin roses that i recently potted.  
i haven't worked with roses much in the past few years but everything seems to thrive here in the heat and sunshine so i figure- why not grow some .  
when i was a florist in california we used to get the most incredible garden roses from this one woman.
i can still picture when she showed up to the shop in her station wagon with buckets full of the thorniest roses and all these years later i can still smell them.  

a good amount of flowers are blooming here and i had a little time to make a tiny bouquet yesterday.  
it's funny cutting flowers from pots on porches. 
several pieces of my artwork were taken / stolen in los angeles recently, where they had been on loan for something....
kinda frustrating to think about 
but as my good son said, "you can make more, mom."

sheila forde

really enjoying sheila forde's projects - especially "the little book of roses zine" 
& the "une fleur à chaque jour " series
books available in her shop 

dorothy liebes

                                                       dorothy liebes /  pic via vladimir kagan

art book stand

so many good (plant & wildflower) zines /books over in claire cottrell's  art book stand.   

i'm going to get southwest by ye rin mok & joni noe's supermarket flowers .  

permanent vacation

four weeks since i left, three weeks since i got here, somewhat unpacked, somewhat sorted out & somewhat over thinking i'm a stranger a strange land but some things still are strange.  

on a permanent vacation.  

sitting on my sofa beside bright large windows touched by palm trees i read about my friends & snow drops rising, crocus soon and waiting for spring.i try not to think about what my bulbs are doing.  i try to think about strawberry picking and baskets of fresh tomatoes - that's what is going on here like its no big deal.
so i shoveled soil into pots last weekend on my small sun porches.  felt like the hottest afternoon but it was only 70 something.  we started some seeds and i'm waiting on plants from annies annuals.  i'm ordering for a 10b zone now which many of my favorites will work in;  i'm not going all tropical.  
can't get into it.  
so the kids here skateboard and surf and play catch with mangoes, oranges & coconuts.  the beach is like paradise, soft sand, clear water, turquoise, calm, clean, peaceful...  
we walk twenty-five minutes to the park and twenty-five minutes back.  we say the same sorts of things everyday like, " . . . oh my, you crazy florida drivers," and as we pass sweaty shirtless jogging men on our way home, we laugh. 

walking the land

enjoyed this piece at nytimes over the weekend . . . 

from the train

  
i left new jersey a little over a week ago. 
drove south some, had a really good lunch with a really good friend in virginia & then hopped on a sleeping train.  little sleeping though- kept waking startled thinking i was on an airplane experiencing the worst turbulence- only to remember that it was a train, not a plane- such a relief! 
i love watching towns pass out the windows, 
southern states now northern ones.  
drove around some more until a few days ago when i got here to my new home in florida.  
my friends have taken good care of my spirits in all this.  
i had to leave that garden and i think about those days with dirt under my nails a lot. 
some tell me there's a new world of tropical flora to discover- .. i'm looking, 
& i kneel down to take pictures of flowers in parking lot medians on the way to buy $29.99 shower caddy's, $29.99 spice racks, and sheet sets; 
still miss the old one-
i saw some wild blue morning glories tangled in a fence this morning and that's more my speed.  
& some weedy sort of coreopsis grows like dandelions. 
i find pieces of new jersey leaves and dried flowers in the residue of dirt as i pull clay pots from newsprint stuffed boxes.  kristen found gulf coast & southern florida wildflower seed mix for me.  i'll mix pinches of it with new soil in old pots.  
pots i grew sweet peas and bachelor's buttons in. last summer/ summer before
another life.
this afternoon i collected seashells on the beach like my grandmother used to.  she kept glass jars of them.  
i'll press them into patterns around the new plants (in old clay pots) 
for my yellow stucco, white stucco
sun porch/  garden

ikebana by lili

huge fan of lili's and especially her new ikebana work

mitchel cumming

mitchel cumming here

a couple newer weavings for claire cottrell & art book stand ... 

she'll have a set up at printed matter's art book fair -feb 1-3, at the geffen contemporary at MOCA 

in los angeles. i'm really enjoying all her projects- 

☀

i'll be shutting down my big cartel shop on january 29 for several weeks while we make a big move south.   now's probably a good time to get a book if you still want one .  .. . .

berit engen

berit engen tapestries 

ampendonk

ampendonk etsy shop

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starting something new-
i don't know what it will be.

long time ago

dh lawrence bathroom at mabel dodge luhan house, taos, nm

lately

alicia

 

still thinking about this post a few weeks back at alicia's / /

shipbuilding

Kim McKechnie, Coast, 2012, Handwoven Linen, Silk

truly one of the most beautiful weavings i've ever seen by Kim . . 
& her great site- shipbuilding

light

cecile daladier

 
   
another nice piece on cecile daladier by alexa on remodelista

new years card tradition

i wrote a small piece about our family's new years card tradition for the january 2013 issue of martha stewart living- out now!  

(some writing on last years card here. )

stephen eichhorn

here & here

(via amelia's pinterest)

new weaving

a new (longer) weaving in my store

foggy, 55 & december blossoms

the dolphin studio

we've been getting this calendar from the ffrench family- "the dolphin studio" for several years.  

all the family members contribute artwork each year - it's their 42nd edition and it's always soo good.  

for sale here . .. 

erie basin

love the landscape within this heart- at erie basin

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