Photos by Dillon

" Sun Rise" inspired by our last trip to Phoenix.

Peonies on the garden path.
Right in front of Mr. Lincoln --the rose

With my friend Kimberly in thought.

When you make the inner like the outer, and the outer like the inner,

and the upper like the lower…

When you make the male and female into a single one,

so that the male will not be male, and the female will not be female…
then will you enter the Kingdom of God.

Gnostic Gospel of Thomas

Red Shoe Photographer

Everyday---

While I'm painting,

grass growing,

flowers blooming,

things moving around inside and outside,

Dinner on the table,

cats lounging---

Whatever is happening!

Our photographer makes his rounds

and at the end of the day pictures appear

reflecting our daily lives.

Quite a luxury.

Photos by Dillon

Time in the garden

Inside I'm working on The Day of the Dead--

Paintings for a show in October.

Outside I'm working on shaping and coloring my garden.

In Oklahoma I was raised to call it "the yard."

Garden meant an area where you grow things to eat-

a vegetable garden. Then there was the flower garden.

Today--I like to think of it all as "The Garden."

It's my outdoor canvas and all I need to do is look

which can be dangerous for Greg, because I always

see some way to improve--to refine. That's the fun of it.

My creation outside is like a ripple that keeps expanding.

I know when a painting is finished.

I paint the edges and give it my signature.

Maybe a garden is just on a much larger scale.

I can't do all the creating by myself.

The work required and it's possibilities seems to have no end!

I guess, it could be thought of as a series of paintings.

There are so many different areas.....

I'm working on the edges now, but the signature is not in sight.

Red Shoes

The two vases there in the back were a gift from

my daughter Roxanne.

Greg called them"Japanese Dresden."

Fine examples to my eye.

I like the red shoes on the girl.

It's that orange red you see so much from that period.

And they didn't use it any where else --but on the shoes.

Very special.

Red Book Rubaiyat

12

A book of Verse underneath the Bough,

A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread--and Thou

Beside me singing in the Wilderness--

Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!

from "Red Book Rubaiyat"

Omar Kyayyam

rendered into English verse

by Edward Fitzgerald

Arranged and illustrated

by Linda Carter Holman

Copyrighted by Linda Carter Holman

Red Shoe Publishing

2009

Rain and Shine May Day

This affair is like the bright sun in the blue sky, shining clearly,changeless and motionless, without diminishing or increasing.It shines everywhere in the daily activities of everyone,appearing in everything.Though you try to grasp it, you cannot get it; though you try to abandon it, it always remains. It is vast and unobstructed, utterly empty...- Letter to Hsu Tun-chi from Zen Master Ta Hui

Funny how an idea can lay there for so long

like frying bacon
Turning and turning
Then all of a sudden it’s ready.

My "Red Book Rubaiyat" is beginning to brown.