Art and Nature

I've been busy experimenting with wet felting (results are on Bayou Quilts) and having a lot of fun as I learn.

Here is an idea I like: Leave Behind Some Art -- in the landscape. Unfortunately, our area is not really suitable for finding so many lovely, large rocks, but it would be such fun, so Goldsworthy. Check out Andy Goldsworthy: A Collaboration with Nature, just one of the books about his art.

In honor of the season, read this Daily Earth Poem. There is a lovely photo with the poem, but I didn't want to use it without permission, so here is a photo I took in the woods down at Raft Bayou last fall. I'm really going to do a review today. I hope. I'm so good at procrastination.

More books

I've finished and reviewed three more books in December Reading. An A, a C+, and a D-.

These 3 books are on order from Amazon (Thanks, Lotus!):

Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found - Suketu Mehta,
Palace Walk (Cairo Trilogy) - Naguib Mahfouz,
and Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles -Jeanette Winterson.

Weight was already on my Wish List; it is part of the Canon Gate revisionary myth series. The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood is one of the more intriguing books I've read this year.

I've bought 3 art books in the last couple of weeks.

Hiroshige: One Hundred Views of Edo. I posted about this on my other blog, but here is a link to all of the prints. Love it.


The Great Masters of European Art full of beautiful reproductions and details.


And most recently, A Child's Book of Art. All three purchases were inspired by a post on Blair's blog about children and art. So I started looking for things for my grandchildren...and got a little sidetracked.


I've always had art books around, but had not thought of them for my grandchildren, even though my kids certainly perused the ones at the house. The availability of so many excellent books on artists, styles, paintings makes a good gift possibility for kids.


The other book purchase lately (and I may start tonight) is Eragon. Scifichic rated it highly.


I'm also now on the look out for the John Scalzi novels reviewed by Carl.