"Pomp and Circumstance" by Patrick Doughterty ( I also placed some willow, and bent and wove maple and alder, with many other volunteers)

 Serena and Kai

Tis the season of the harvest...red corn, peppers, calendula, tomatoes, Persian Carpet Zinnias (Zinnia haageana), grapes grace my table. We often ask: what is art? Is it only a human thing? I say nature is one of the greatest artists. Just look at a daisy: the incredible composite of flowers in a head, creating what we call a marigold, or sunflower, or lettuce. Yes, lettuce is a daisy!

"Good morning, Sparrow...

Writing on my

Clean Veranda

With your dewy feet"

~Shiki

From Loren Russell's Garden

Dactylorhiza

Darlingonia californica

A Visit with the Uncommon Rose

"Earth brings us into life
and nourishes us.
Earth takes us back again.
Birth and death are present every moment"
~Thich Nhat Hanh

Bamboo Inspired, Shino Teapot and Cup

Above: award winner in Linn Benton Community College Art Show

Installation in front of Fairbanks Hall

Photinia and Prunus leaves bedecking the concave shapes of the Douglas Fir Tree in front of Fairbanks Hall. The tree is 110 years old, and is nicknamed "Lad". Anna Swan and Kusra Kapuler

Time Duration of Three Monocots

Examining the relationship of Iris germanica to Strelitzia nicolai and Strelitzia reginae

Peace Cranes

Oregon Country Fair 2011, at the Joyful Entrance, mutual project of Ambiance Art Crew

Poem of Mary Oliver

The Roses, by Mary Oliver

All afternoon I have been walking over the dunes,
hurrying from one thick raft of the wrinkled, salt
roses to another, leaning down close to their dark
or pale petals, red as blood or white as snow.
And now I am beginning to breathe slowly and evenly-
the way a hunted animal breathes, finally, when it has galloped,
and galloped-when it is wrung dry, but, at last, is far away,
so the panic begins to drain from the chest, from the wonderful legs,
and the exhausted mind.
Oh sweetness pure and simple, may I join you?
I lie down next to them, on the sand.
But to tell what happens next, truly I need help.
Will somebody or something please start to sing?

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