Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Bitter and Sweet


What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.
~Pericles

We spent all day yesterday doing yard work on my parents' half acre overlooking Cowichan Bay in preparation for selling it. A few years ago, my Dad had their huge (and rotting inside) maple tree cut down and hauled away. Years before, my Mom had placed a wooden birdhouse high on its trunk, out of reach of naughty kitties. We uncovered that birdhouse yesterday. It is still there, at the base of the stump, now a home to ivy....

Sunday, May 9, 2010

Happy Mother's Day!



While cleaning out my parent's place yesterday, I found this very old card I made for my Mom - a bittersweet find. The attribute seems to be a contraction of a quote by Elizabeth Stone (found with a cursory search). The image was printed on the card and the lettering was almost certainly done with a Mitchell Roundhand nib and Higgin's Eternal Ink!

Saturday, May 1, 2010