NYC for the first time in fifteen months. The smell of burnt candied nuts and subterranean subway air as it comes wooshing up the stairs. So. Many. Humans: laughing, shouting, embracing, badly playing full drum kits, on wheels and in the streets, in poet’s revery and tutus. We walked most of the island below 14th […]
Ivy: Halloween bat toy must die! Ziggy: Totally…you get it, sis.
Alfonso does his Canada Goose dance through the grasslands as birds large and small abandon nests or cross borders, and the algae and milkweed bloom.
Ziggy: Why, just look at this feather, Ivy! Isn’t Mother Nature bewitching? Ivy: Yeah, pure enchantment. Now gimme a hand, Zig, I nearly got this thing dismantled.
Yo Ziggy, check out Mom’s sweater tie—it seriously stretches all the way to the dinning room! And when it snaps back, you just grab it again, like, a million times. Nah, don’t worry, she’ll never know. Now just to mix it up, you can start on her scarves, like the silk ones with the hand-beading? […]
Introducing 🐾Ziggy & Ivy 🐾! These tween siblings are four months old, spent some part of their first two months on the street, and have been with us nearly two weeks. Ivy (black) is polydactyl (she has extra front toes like mittens), and befitting a gal whose namesake is Poison Ivy Rorschach, she’s a purr machine […]
This female Black Swallowtail (Papilio Polyxenes) lives in my garden, unhindered by her damaged wing, fluttering and feasting on the self-seeded verbena (planted last year) that pops up every so often in the beds. She keeps me company as I pull weeds, sip coffee, sweat, and sneak in some green time before the heat and to-do […]
On my studio doorstep, in afternoon sun, I found half a luna moth’s wings. I’ve longed to see this favorite in the wild, and this is as close as I’ve come. It was left at my feet, like my cat used to leave birds and lizards, in offering. Like most, I haven’t been feeling especially grounded, and […]