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This Week

Howdy! Here are a few photos I'd like to share from this fast-moving and fun week of getting work done:

• Day of sitting at the window to finish up my final painting series! 
• Keeping up the wood fire kiln for my ceramics class. Pictured is a wonderful classmate of mine with her face shield. 
• Visited my fort... there I am with it and the mysterious fake rock. The pond in the front yard is filled, so little ducklings and their parents have been swimming about.
• No, no, not the "TRY OUR NEW FIESTA SALSA ARE YOU LOCO" sign, the dog!
• Lollygagging in the car while dad checks out a motorcycle shop.
• Dad and me, heading back to my apartment to cozy in with mom but stopping first to play around with the best silhouette wall on the south-side of town!


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Colors of Spring

Took a walk, and this is what I saw!

The Edible Schoolyard

"Water Lore & Water History"

"Once the world was nothing but water, he explained, and you wouldn't think it to 
 look at us, but human beings were mostly water. The miraculous thing about water, he said, was that it never came to an end. All the water on the earth had been here since the beginning of time, it had just moved around from rivers and lakes and oceans to clouds and rain and puddles and then sunk through the soil to underground streams, to springs and wells, where it got drunk by people and animals and went back to rivers and lakes and oceans.

           The water you kids were playing in, he said, had probably been to Africa and the North Pole. Genghis Khan or Saint Peter or even Jesus himself might have drunk it. Cleopatra might have bathed in it. Crazy Horse might have watered his pony with it. Sometimes water was liquid. Sometimes it was rock hard-- ice. Sometimes it was soft-- snow. Sometimes it was visible but weightless-- clouds. And sometimes it was completely invisible-- vapor --floating up into the sky like the souls of dead people. There was nothing like water in the world, Jim said. It made the desert bloom but also turned rich bottomland into swamp. Without it we'd die, but it could also kill us, and that was why we loved it, even craved it, but also feared it. Never take water for granted, Jim said. Always cherish it. Always beware of it."

- Jeannette Walls, Half Broke Horses

Documented Water: 

Trees of Now

Some of the trees that are blossoming now!

Sunday

Theisens in Dyersville