If I’m not actively busy I begin to feel that I should be home with my family or working on my major project. It’s always been that way when I’m traveling. Downtime often feels like I’m living in excess, but it’s a little difficult to actually go from one event to another time wise when you are 17,000 miles from home.
Category: Travel Stories
Now what will I do with this?
The world speeds past you in a fusion of color as you travel and I try to capture as much as I can with photo images, however, the design images stay in the brain and don’t escape until I put pen to paper.
This past year the world of illustration changed for me when I was introduced to the iPad Pro. Now I have paints, inks, pencils with me all in one package and the soothing music in the ipad of Nora Jones added to my relaxation as I worked yesterday.
Photography is my passion and I was keen to capture the light and ambience of this majestic place. However, I really wanted to see and photograph the ‘wave’ formation of rocks. The formation is situated on the slopes of the Coyote Buttes in the Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness of the Colorado Plateau.
The rest of this blog is a photographic explanation of our visit.
Travel through NM, Arizona and Utah, two gals on the road.
All I can say is that we have had a feast of inspiration… the ideas are many and the creative spirit is high.
Two gals on the road.
I’m a textile artist with no apologies and when I’m not teaching, lecturing or being a grandma I take out the camera and capture the preciousness around me.
It takes guts if you are a Graffiti artist and you come up against a group of quilters of middling age.
And then there was Joe, a young man who loved graffiti and who walked out of class so excited and enthused because he mastered quilt illustration on his thread graffiti piece. He works at the quilt store and I’m going to visit him again when I get back to town. Hugs Joe it takes guts to spend a day with a group of women quilters.
Art, adventures and the lost computer.
So as I fly in with a smile on my face, and a heart nearly breaking with pride I can’t wait for it all to begin. It’s a crazy week for all of us, Radio, TV. Visits and a laugh a minute. Then again there are five new classes from dear friend Sue Rassmusen and I to share with you all, and you my dear friends make it work.
Notes for the diary.
I drink the first cup of coffee in the Qantas club. Not the ones they have prepared prior to my arrival and displayed on a tray in paper cups as you walk past. Make if fresh honey and please can I have it in a cup not a paper thing. The plane flight is just an hour and a half and I manage a little breakfast and a drawing of a rabbit, just because I could.
India, A Textile and photography tour to remember.
“The morning comes around too fast. It seems such a short time since I laid my head on the pillow. But as predicted by an unknown deity, the sun rises and gives promise to the day.
We will have had more fun that is legal and we are less than half way through our tour.How could you not get excited by this !!!
We designed this program ourselves and the tour company organized the mechanics. Drivers, pickups and accommodationâ€.
So I can finally share out newly designed Indian Textile tour trip. We also have an add on 7 day Nepalese trip as well.
You will travel with a group of like minded people, and trust me we will take really good care of you.
Our accommodation is luxurious and the food is amazing the scenery is breathtaking in ma
Our Marathon Sunday.
It is set in the beautiful town of Tanunda, in the heart of one of South Australia’s best wine regions. The very scenic course passes many prestigious wineries, with the vines in all their autumn glory.
We left home in the dark to travel the 60 kms to the event. Son Matt and his partner Sheena left a lot earlier. It was one of the coldest mornings we’ve had for the year, but the promise of a nice day lasted just an hour or so at sunrise.