tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6482310772862064470.post307984587154988502..comments2023-05-30T06:26:29.914-04:00Comments on RavenWood Forest: The Long Exhale of AugustValeriannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02621130622153365184noreply@blogger.comBlogger41125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6482310772862064470.post-37543208188239814012011-11-24T02:47:41.365-05:002011-11-24T02:47:41.365-05:00I can see why the spirals of your work call you in...I can see why the spirals of your work call you in, they seem ancient & mesmerising, and remind me of thumb prints, each one unique & so beautiful. Oh Pasha, those eyes. (as you might tell Valerianna, i have lots of catching up to do x ;-)Ruthie Reddenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09544345949078281235noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6482310772862064470.post-74510705354434608602011-08-29T07:27:59.672-04:002011-08-29T07:27:59.672-04:00Hi Valerianna, beautiful nature in sound, photos a...Hi Valerianna, beautiful nature in sound, photos and words... you portray it so well.. <br /> Hope you have made it through the storm safely.. we are getting the wind now, but the sun has come out.. Take care...Gwen Buchananhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13410235558740636534noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6482310772862064470.post-70146861499613555932011-08-29T06:53:05.373-04:002011-08-29T06:53:05.373-04:00Valerianna, such a lovely long exhale and now Iren...Valerianna, such a lovely long exhale and now Irene is exhaling too. It's Monday now and I'm hoping you all fared well as she passed by. Over here she is relentlessly blowing - no rain - and the mass of clouds is scudding by.Penny Berenshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15806619078160825540noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6482310772862064470.post-19665266438894344412011-08-28T12:52:24.970-04:002011-08-28T12:52:24.970-04:00I just discovered you blog.
Beautiful artwork.
I ...I just discovered you blog.<br />Beautiful artwork.<br /><br />I love spirals of your designChesterbrook Academy Elementaryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11845027604668929113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6482310772862064470.post-61280121279442868482011-08-26T23:52:13.246-04:002011-08-26T23:52:13.246-04:00What a wonderful meander through your garden, the ...What a wonderful meander through your garden, the spiral logic of August, and the spiral magic of your art. You brought so many memories of my years in New England back, and your artwork speaks of the true mystery at the roots and core of all gardens.<br /><br />I know a storm is coming in the form of Irene's fury - sending you good wishes and fortitude from Arizona.Lauren Rainehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12157367890138761677noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6482310772862064470.post-70219089116157299412011-08-26T17:39:30.879-04:002011-08-26T17:39:30.879-04:00for a moment i left my rainy day city life to wand...for a moment i left my rainy day city life to wander in your garden and stare into the lushness of the exuberant growth of late summer.<br />Valerianna...so pleased i am to wander over here today and read your lovely poetic words...<br />also to peak at the previous post... and to marvel at that spiral form and the way it does ground one to enter the essence of such making!<br />May that coming hurricane divert its course away form your part of the cosmos... take care!Sophie Munnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02797068983613314554noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6482310772862064470.post-85066021795926712182011-08-26T10:47:28.918-04:002011-08-26T10:47:28.918-04:00Every time I see the first picture of this post in...Every time I see the first picture of this post in my blog list, I am struck by the beauty ... and there is so much more of it. Who knows what your drawing in and out spirals engenders, I can well imagine it helps the world to center and move and center and move in natural harmony.barbarahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06351962678694417202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6482310772862064470.post-84262988469064232732011-08-24T23:31:38.895-04:002011-08-24T23:31:38.895-04:00bj - thanks for your enthusiasm! Glad you stumbled...bj - thanks for your enthusiasm! Glad you stumbled upon me here in the forest. <br /><br />Suz - Even when I TRY to make things manicured (which is very seldom) it doesn;t work, so wild is surely the word!<br /><br />Donna - My wild woman wants to run right out the door to follow the wolf howls when I hear them!Valeriannahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02621130622153365184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6482310772862064470.post-73202702586395927242011-08-24T21:42:20.673-04:002011-08-24T21:42:20.673-04:00My Inner Wild Woman sniffs the air, her ears twitc...My Inner Wild Woman sniffs the air, her ears twitch and turn to catch the calling, she scratches into the ground to find the direction to follow...alive and filled with wonder...<br /><br />"For the past few years, now and again, some of us here have heard what we think is wolf song. Its something rather rare, and somehow unmistakable, though I find myself wondering if it is truly a wolf."<br /><br />... my cellular memory pads the spongy forest floor.Donna Iona Drozdahttp://donnaionadrozda.com/blognoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6482310772862064470.post-38444474974659139432011-08-24T10:42:01.517-04:002011-08-24T10:42:01.517-04:00love your wild piece of earth
and your soul
thank...love your wild piece of earth<br />and your soul<br /><br />thanks for sharing your wonderful writingSuzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10329289442910294160noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6482310772862064470.post-49200068133772554122011-08-24T10:14:23.284-04:002011-08-24T10:14:23.284-04:00I have just found your blog...and I am truly amaze...I have just found your blog...and I am truly amazed! Your photos, your artwork --- everything fairly sings to me. I will add a link to your blog on my collage and stitching blogs. Seems like I've found a friend I've never met.bjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05933344957466744104noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6482310772862064470.post-50219738903270361452011-08-23T11:36:03.892-04:002011-08-23T11:36:03.892-04:00yvette - thanks for leaving your mark!
Cottage Ga...yvette - thanks for leaving your mark!<br /><br />Cottage Garden - thanks... loving the full-bloom of August. Its gotten pretty cool here, gotta get stacking wood and leave off the garden!<br /><br />iNd!@nA - he seems to be able to virtually enchant... though he has no clue of it, at least virtually. I DO think he gets it in person......!Valeriannahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02621130622153365184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6482310772862064470.post-36090236045452741102011-08-23T06:36:50.453-04:002011-08-23T06:36:50.453-04:00thank you for taking us down that thyme-scented pa...thank you for taking us down that thyme-scented path...think i may have been virtually enchanted by the moss-eyed oneindia flinthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01510066677833871579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6482310772862064470.post-11890707861225924692011-08-23T06:03:46.060-04:002011-08-23T06:03:46.060-04:00Oh such a magical post, walking with you through y...Oh such a magical post, walking with you through your August garden. I love my visits here, viewing your spirals; listening through your words to the sound of the forest - a wolf's song - how wonderful but trepidatious too. Pasha's moss-green eyes and your beautiful heart-stones.<br /><br />I have taken a deep exhale.<br /><br />Jeanne<br />xReading Tea Leaveshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16928999793157507134noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6482310772862064470.post-17873886728484863052011-08-23T02:35:01.373-04:002011-08-23T02:35:01.373-04:00......................Yvettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12138424562030321140noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6482310772862064470.post-79303310675727902582011-08-22T23:25:30.720-04:002011-08-22T23:25:30.720-04:00Kim- amazing that you'll be home soon, seems l...Kim- amazing that you'll be home soon, seems like you just left! <br /><br />Manya - anytime!<br /><br />ArtPropelled - I like that... like a meditation in a scented garden. I just revisited The Secret Garden for a chapter, so I get what that is like. <br /><br />Tammie - What's weird is that there supposedly aren't wolves around here, but more and more folks claim to have either seen or heard them. Same with mountain lions. LOTS of folks have seen them, but the fish & wildlife folks aren;t talking!<br /><br />Karen - Nice to see you here... and definitely seek out wolf calls!<br /><br />Lynn-its amazing how color, form & pattern can communicate authenticity, some work truly shines with passion. I'm drawn to deeply soulful work. <br /><br />marie - I like the cicadas as well, but do love that amazing August buzz. Seems to have stopped tonight with a cold snap, I do hope it comes back!<br /><br />Susan -Thanks! Oh and how I love Jude's blog!Valeriannahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02621130622153365184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6482310772862064470.post-33506176369734143352011-08-22T20:17:29.888-04:002011-08-22T20:17:29.888-04:00Wonderful blog, I found you reading Jude's blo...Wonderful blog, I found you reading Jude's blogSusan Hemannhttp://susanhemann.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6482310772862064470.post-77946175453647759182011-08-22T13:35:20.942-04:002011-08-22T13:35:20.942-04:00isn't that really one of the magical things ab...isn't that really one of the magical things about meditative work? it can pull you deeply within, or make you feel as though you are as expansive as the universe - to the point where you feel that your body's energy is connected to all... which makes you intensely experience the depth of the within... and around and around... like your spirals - choosing only which way to follow the line... <br />wolf song must be magical... and i too am so enamored of the loud cricket noises at night... vs. the cicadas' song which rises and falls with the heat...mairedoddhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01518352870828784085noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6482310772862064470.post-84795800299575971552011-08-22T05:31:59.656-04:002011-08-22T05:31:59.656-04:00Thank you for this August walk through your garden...Thank you for this August walk through your garden and art. You live in an unbelievably magical place - with plants and stones and animals speaking all around you. <br /><br />I love what you said about the spiral paintings and how it's the process which is the most important. I believe that's how it has to be with art - at least any art that has the power to touch others - which yours most certainly does. <br /><br />And who could resist Pasha's mossy stare!Lynnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01674923395134039554noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6482310772862064470.post-83717080889777968472011-08-20T17:53:04.039-04:002011-08-20T17:53:04.039-04:00Beautiful. I love my visits here. I can almost fee...Beautiful. I love my visits here. I can almost feel the forest it's so peaceful. Your garden is gorgeous, and wolf call... That is something one day I hope to get the chance to hear. Have a lovely weekend. xKarenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17630216046532015989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6482310772862064470.post-14305994597027890422011-08-19T20:32:28.034-04:002011-08-19T20:32:28.034-04:00lovely to see these images of your world and life....lovely to see these images of your world and life. <br />I know what you mean about the call of a wolf, we know it is a wolf. then there are other calls that sound like a wolf or a coyote.... inspires wonder and uncertainty. then there is the call of the coyote that is quite clear. they are all wonderful. lovely weekend to you.Tammie Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09018402134070834516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6482310772862064470.post-87332342345778229442011-08-19T13:31:40.953-04:002011-08-19T13:31:40.953-04:00Another post that feels like a meditation in a sce...Another post that feels like a meditation in a scented garden. You have a way of relaxing the reader. I love the spirals on paper and on stones. As for Pasha... what a magnificent creature she is!ArtPropelledhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15853722164314994360noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6482310772862064470.post-18835068553340608752011-08-19T05:53:26.333-04:002011-08-19T05:53:26.333-04:00oh thanks for this walk around it alloh thanks for this walk around it allManya Maratouhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00634215614481267090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6482310772862064470.post-31185897803268641232011-08-19T03:40:21.310-04:002011-08-19T03:40:21.310-04:00It's very good to see your quiet, centering an...It's very good to see your quiet, centering and reflective spirals. I've been radiating and radiating outwards...expanding and expanding this summer. I am looking forward to contracting inward to be still, and begin some new work and creations. I will be home in less than a week now!Your garden is looking lovely and I can really see the shift in the light that happens this time of year where we live in your photo's. It still feels like the thick of summer in Budapest!Kimberly Wachtelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03418731674136228243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6482310772862064470.post-20275591360712517972011-08-18T17:00:25.290-04:002011-08-18T17:00:25.290-04:00Trish - I love that somehow my work has got you se...Trish - I love that somehow my work has got you seeing a little more... that's wonderful. Root Grandmother was the first of these I made years ago. If you visit the Spirit Sculpture page up above the post under the heading, you'll see a lot more of this kind of sculpture. <br /><br />Virginia - Oh, I bet its warm there! Its turning back to hot and humid here, but soon we'll get fall, way before you, I'm sure!Valeriannahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02621130622153365184noreply@blogger.com