Just wanted to pop in to give a little farewell cheer to Stephanie of Little Birds, who has decided to part ways with her blog. I’m not sure when I first encountered Little Birds, but hers is the kind of work that was a revelation to me when I first began to discover craft blogs. [...]

Just a quick postcard from Victoria: a beautiful hybrid peony in bloom at the Abkhazi Garden. This week I’m very excitedly hosting my mom on her first visit to Victoria, so I get to visit all the places I like to go, or that I’ve been wanting to visit since we moved out here.

I’m enjoying [...]

Saturday night we had plans to attend a dinner event at a local farm. They bake bread every week in a wood-fired oven, and this weekend they were hosting a pizza-making night. I got a message saying that aprons were recommended . . . well, twist my arm why don’t you? Perfect excuse to try [...]

The woods and trails have been full of these white fawn lilies for the last few weeks. They are passing out of season right now, but in the cooler, shadier spots they are still in bloom. I made an attempt at this lily print last week, but decided to try again this week using two [...]

Yesterday, I was finally able to catch a Red Sox game that was televised out here. They were playing Toronto, so one of the Canadian sports networks had it. Fortunately the CBC is carrying the Stanley Cup playoffs, or I wouldn’t have had a prayer. As it is, I was probably the only person in [...]

On my way to the grocery store today, I hit my two local thrift stores. Conveniently located right across the street from each other, just like two little Starbuckses. Although out of season, I was hunting for some 100% wool sweaters. I’m knitting some felted (fulled to be fully correct) slippers, and I’m just about [...]

Right now, it’s a lot more like spring here in our corner of British Columbia than it is in my home state of Massachusetts. This is my first B.C. spring, and our first spring in the little house by the sea that we rented when we moved out here last summer. Our yard is the [...]

I was able to get in a day in the studio today. This is the main piece I worked on, along with some other small prints:

I’ve been sketching some of the wildflowers and other ephemera of spring. I carved a speedycut block of an unfurling fern this morning. While inking the block, I noticed that [...]

I’m just going to start here, with a project that didn’t quite work out. We’ll complete the introductions some other time.

I was doing a little sketching in the backyard recently when one of the resident Anna’s hummingbirds took up a perch in the quince bushes nearby. This one seems to be a juvenile that is [...]