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..the daily life of a hermit and her dog ...
River Echo
September, 2010
Welcome to Oma's World.
Welcome to Oma's world: a hermitage set on a pristine lake, nestled in mountains, surrounded by trees and inhabited by Oma, Kenya (her own dog) and the dogs she looks after.
In Oma's world there is time to see, really see, the natural landscape as it changes. When she is not outside with the dogs, Oma reads, writes and watches films. She has also returned to a lost hobby, knitting, tried pottery and felting with very limited success, and produced a great deal of funky furniture over the past year or so. She also teaches occasionally at a local language school.
Since moving to the hermitage she has discovered the secret to raising healthy house plants. They have to love their environment. We all do if we are to lead happy productive lives.
This summer she tried her hand at creating a garden, and has been consumed by it to the exclusion of most other occupations.
In Oma's world there is time to see, really see, the natural landscape as it changes. When she is not outside with the dogs, Oma reads, writes and watches films. She has also returned to a lost hobby, knitting, tried pottery and felting with very limited success, and produced a great deal of funky furniture over the past year or so. She also teaches occasionally at a local language school.
Since moving to the hermitage she has discovered the secret to raising healthy house plants. They have to love their environment. We all do if we are to lead happy productive lives.
This summer she tried her hand at creating a garden, and has been consumed by it to the exclusion of most other occupations.
My Other Blogs
Kenya
My Lady of the Lake
Some of My Regular (and Occasional) Haunts
About Me
- Oma
- ... a woman who has been many women and will likely continue to metamorphose right til the end ... I have been a mother, a grandmother, a writer, a teacher, a traveler, a nomad,a hermit, a dog sitter, and a sporadic folk artist wannabe. Right now I am also a tiny-time-chef and caterer. Who knows where my travels will lead me as I travel down the final stretch of life's road?
Blogs for Writers
Followers
Something I Noticed Recently
- "A first draft is a work of construction. A seventh is the work of an artist." Barbara Kingsolver
Kenya's Sleepover Buddies
- Peach, a gentle 5 year old Lassie-type Collie
- Oberon, King of the Cat Fairies
- Corey, a 7 year old Golden Retriever
- Kitty, AKA Button, 8 weeks
- Tom Cat, 1 year old... run over November, 2010
- Olive, the 2 year old black lab
- Chelsea, the old and lumpy black lab on steroids
- Mica, the Siberian Husky
- Maggie, the two year old Berner
- Stella, the 7 month old Bernese Mountain Dog puppy
- Tango, the Ancient Sheep Dog, now deceased
- Zeke, the Nova Scotia Duck Toller, now deceased
- Henry, Marta's Golden Retriever
- Lulu, the tiny Cockapoo puppy
- Havoc, the Doberman
- Remi, Sarah's Golden Doodle
- Tango, the Golden Lab mix
- Teddy and Shea, Tammy and Carlos' dogs
- Nina, the Chocolate Lab, now re-homed because of viciousness
Blog Archive
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- I've sold two chairs!!!
- Ed on his 40th
- The Birthday Boy
- The Other Side of the Looking Glass
- Ed's party ... my favourite little ham!
- Ed's 40th ... as I was leaving
- Ed's 40th ... Ed's daughter, Emma
- everything under the sun 1 and 2 ... as the world ...
- the less ambiguous carousels
- Creativity
- One view of the second carousel in progress
- Looking Backwards into the Mirror
- Le Carousel, Lavender and Wild Flowers
- African Wisdom
- Playing with the ideas
- Metaphor: the Image
- Metaphors
- Finally ...
- Three Good Reasons
- Lucas Enjoying Sprout's High Chair
- Kenya on top of the rock wall
- Wet Bed and Those Damned Nails
- My Favourite Memory of Time with Arrow
- But first the nails ... tomorrow?
- Some of the Choices
- The transformation of the flaking fluorescent chai...
- Kandinsky, Kayaks and Snakes
- The Tough Chair
- In a Quandary
- The Wild Thing Under Control (photo by Red Fraggle...
- I Must be Meant to Read This Book!
- a few words in between chores
- The Modified Stool: I've decided to do the other s...
- B-I-G-G-G-G Nanny Dog
- Nanny Dog
- Almost Guilt-free
- Kitty with Sprout's Toy
- Kitty wins a battle with her own cat toy
- Kitty playing with the weird toy Sprout left behind
- C'mon! Let's play!
- I'd rather play with my stick.
- Kitty at Bathroom Window
- moving right along ... the stool is almost finished
- And this is Kitty ... any wonder Kenya's in love?
- This is Tom Cat
- Kitty's in there!
- Trying to make breakfast with food hounds and Kenya
- Olive the two year old
- Canada Day
- New stool project in progress
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Films I am Watching (reviewed are starred)
- Blood Diamond
- Amazing Grace
- Rosenstrasse
- The Blade Runner
- My Cousin Vinnie
What I am Reading These Days
- Through Black Spruce by Joseph Boyden
- Good to a Fault by Marina Endicott
- What They Wanted by Donna Morrissey
- Lullabies for Little Criminals by Heather o'Neill
- Merle's Door: Lessons from a Free Thinking Dog by Ted Kerasote
4 comments:
time to think - I definitely liked it better before you added the pale yellow - it goes from sweet naive folk painting with depth to overworked and "trying too hard".
Thanks, Mud Mama. I wasn't (and am still not) sure. Does anyone else want to weigh in on this before I start sanding and re-painting? I would really appreciate your input on this.
Oh...don't sand and start all over!
I would try to blend (softly and subtlety) the area where it goes from the darker to the lighter...try to leave a bit of the lighter colour...but try to blend it some...see what happens there...and if you aren't happy with it...just redo the yellow petals...but you don't have to start from scratch!
It looks like you have already verethaned it...but just paint over that and then re-do the verethane...
I like a bit of colour variation in the petals...but I think the change from the darker to lighter is a bit abrupt...
I was only going to re-do the petals ... so I'll start with your idea of softening the shift by brushing gold over part of the yellow. Then I will take a photo and you can both vote again.
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