Well, here I am, ready to tell you tell you what's been happening in the last month!
Most timely is that, although it's the first day of Spring here in SE Wisconsin, drat! You'd never know it! The tips of the earliest blooms were just showing in some gardens near a structure, in parts of our area. Then, we hear we're going to get blasted!! Right at the moment, I just got home from a short road trip on our Interstate 94 roadway from the Milwaukee area, and saw a four car pile-up, not to mention several cars using poor judgment.
Most timely is that, although it's the first day of Spring here in SE Wisconsin, drat! You'd never know it! The tips of the earliest blooms were just showing in some gardens near a structure, in parts of our area. Then, we hear we're going to get blasted!! Right at the moment, I just got home from a short road trip on our Interstate 94 roadway from the Milwaukee area, and saw a four car pile-up, not to mention several cars using poor judgment.
Most of us were traveling about 35 miles an hour, even in the fast lane, as the storm got itself going this morning. We're going to have from 8-10 inches by tonight and maybe more by morning. If you don't believe we're having erratic weather patterns due to our modern lifestyle, I would differ with you. All over the world, very unusual weather seems to be the "norm" now, and we're no exception!
The status of WILD BLOOM Arts is good! My son and daughter-in-law and I have opened our first Art Studio in a renovated business complex, and I'm meeting many Artists who have rented there for years. I hope to get to know them better and enjoy the art they are creating. My son is experimenting with a melted wax technique, in addition to being a Jazz Guitarist - check http://www.jaymollerskov.com/ - and teaching lessons. My daughter-in-law will be sewing Renaissance fashions, inbetween her job as an Elementary Music Specialist and landing a part in Racine Theater Guild's next production. My younger son also wants to come up and work with us, perhaps on his taxidermy painting. I am working on framing my first set of black and white photography choices, which I will bring to a Coop Gallery I joined last month. More on that later. My husband is in the process of getting ready to leave for Costa Rica in three days, and will hopefully bring back some good photographic memories!
Along with this blog, which I anticipate posting on in the least once a month, I am also working on my first website, http://www.wildbloomarts.com/ - right now in construction - which will eventually feature many of my art pieces. Problem is, creating this is a slow process. I'm hoping to have it up and on the web by the end of April.
A few weeks we returned from San Antonio, which was beautiful along the River Walk where we stayed.
Then, after that I was in San Francisco and Davis, California, with side trips to Santa Rosa and Sacramento. In each of those locations I was able to complete some great photography shoots. In addition, visits to the Annie Liebewitz Photography Show at the Legion of Honor, and to the Asian Arts Musuem, both in San Francisco were very enjoyable, and of course, who could miss Chinatown!
If you've never been in Davis, CA, there is a very lovely Arboretum walk along the UC Davis Campus that was beautiful, and two hours away is Old Sacramento, nestled right in the downtown area of Sacramento, and long the river! In Santa Rosa, we also had fun touring the Charles Schulz Museum, visiting one of my favorites: Snoopy!! Hey, Bev! Hey, Steve! I wanna come back to that warm California weather and all that healthy, fresh cuisine!! WONDERFUL!
We didn't have even one day of rain, nor fog. How unusual is THAT in a full week? The view of the Golden Gate Bridge, The Persidio Park, and Chrissy Fields, and Sausalita were crystal clear on every shot! Back to reality for me, Friends, to about 6 inches of quickly falling snow so far. Oh well, although we've now had 5 months of winter weather, each day IS beautiful in it's own right, that's for sure.
We didn't have even one day of rain, nor fog. How unusual is THAT in a full week? The view of the Golden Gate Bridge, The Persidio Park, and Chrissy Fields, and Sausalita were crystal clear on every shot! Back to reality for me, Friends, to about 6 inches of quickly falling snow so far. Oh well, although we've now had 5 months of winter weather, each day IS beautiful in it's own right, that's for sure.
