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Month: July 2019

By Susan Barrett Price Posted on July 27, 2019

Coneflowers and friends

On the sunny side of our cabin, we have hundreds of cone flowers (Echinacea), with a few black-eyed Susans (Rudbeckia) and rampant oregano (Origanum vulgare). The cone flowers are very … Continue reading Coneflowers and friends

Categories: fauna, flora, lake lifeTags: bees, butterflies, echinacea, monarch butterflies
By Susan Barrett Price Posted on July 16, 2019

Dye Painting. Meh.

Today was doodle day on my experimental yard of linen. I went through my winter sketchbooks and found some great motifs. I followed instructions for making “complex colors” (adding complements … Continue reading Dye Painting. Meh.

Categories: dyeing, visual artsTags: doodling, dye
By Susan Barrett Price Posted on July 15, 2019

Focus: Dive into Dyeing

One cure for Summer Hyperactivity Disorder is to devote multi-hour chunks to a single project — go deep, get it to a logical stopping point before veering off to the … Continue reading Focus: Dive into Dyeing

Categories: dyeing, visual artsTags: dye
By Susan Barrett Price Posted on July 13, 2019

Summer Hyperactivity Disorder

It’s crazy. Every impulse has me dashing from garden to computer to kitchen to copy stand. I always have work-in-progress on every surface, but summer expands the “surfaces” to include … Continue reading Summer Hyperactivity Disorder

Categories: art life
By Susan Barrett Price Posted on July 12, 2019

St. John’s Wort

When we moved here for the lake view, I discovered the property we bought came with flowers. I had to ask my gardener friends the names of everything. I didn’t … Continue reading St. John’s Wort

Categories: flora, lake lifeTags: dye, St. Johns Wort, weeds, wildflower
Ants tending the aphids on a curly dock plant
By Susan Barrett Price Posted on July 11, 2019July 12, 2019

Of Ants, Aphids, and Dock

I should call my garden Scheherazade. She tells me a thousand and one stories. Nothing gets lopped as long as there is a tale to be told. Today we have … Continue reading Of Ants, Aphids, and Dock

Categories: fauna, flora, lake lifeTags: ants, aphids, rumex
By Susan Barrett Price Posted on July 10, 2019

The Rochester Patriarchy 1914

Once upon a time, Jim bought a book called “Club Men of Rochester in Caricature.” It was produced in 1914 by Jack Sears and associated cartoonists and printed at the … Continue reading The Rochester Patriarchy 1914

Categories: booksTags: caricature, Rochester NY, Roycrofters
Public domain photo. Groninger Library, at Fort Eustis, Va., Oct. 31, 2012
By Susan Barrett Price Posted on July 2, 2019

The Library

I’m on Chapter 2 of The Library Book by Susan Orlean, the New Yorker writer of one of my very favorite books The Orchid Thief. She is describing the cataclysmic … Continue reading The Library

Categories: art life, memory

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