Middle of the Week

 

Very tall grasses, maybe 7 inches high

How to See an Exquisite Corpse | Surrealism at 100

LINK 14:47 minutes

I continue to watch art making videos. I find them inspiring and pleasant. This one was quite curious. It led to memories of one of my former students and his "Continuing Art". You can read that post HERE. Anyway, doesn't this look like fun? 

Today we went back to one of the parks in our Parks Project. I was waiting for the Meditation Garden to open, so I could check it out. You can see our first visit HERE. We walked the short loop, pausing to sit on a bench and listen to the rock fountain for a few minutes. I have to say that it was surprisingly underwhelming...but it led to a good conversation regarding where we do feel connected, at peace, meditative and so on. The bridge still wins out for me. I sure wish there were more benches there though.

There were a lot...I mean a lot of children there today. A big group of middle schoolers playing football on the grassy field. Many moms stood around chatting or moved off a bit down the trail to hang out at a picnic table. There were a dozen younger siblings on the structure and racing their scooters along the path. Four year old boys, fearless in their own power. One young girl tip-toed in stealth quietness through a batch of rosemary, stalking a lizard.

I photographed this tree the last time we were there too. I was captivated by this unique trunk. The last photo was shot from a slightly different position. This one really shows the "flow" section of the bark in the middle. 

We watched the last of the series Rose and Maloney tonight. we've been enjoying it, but I warn you it is gritty and intense. The opposite of a meditation garden, for sure.

The view towards the riverbed turned out like a painting, yes?

Where would you like to go for a follow-up visit?

 

May you give new spaces a try

May you honor where is best suited to you

May you take it lightly at times

xo

Photos by NAE @pomegranatetrail ©2026

2025

 2025...

Happy New Year everyone. May 2025 bring each of you exactly what you need, want, desire.

The old trivet above states "Good Luck" on the horseshoe. It was once solid painted black and is now becoming rust...perhaps soon to be dust. 

The January 2025 Hallmark Datebook drawing is my wish for now, meaning out of the fireworks and into the flow.

I stitched last night, on the eve of a new year...May you be Healthy, still unfinished. Today I wrote postcards to the little grandchildren. I plan to continue this new tradition (from 2024) of one postcard each month to each grandchild. For January 1 chose the Carson Valley Inn, in Carson Valley, NV and Virginia City, NV. I wonder what other postcards will come forward through the new year?

 What do you wish for or plan for the new year?

May you stay connected

May you go with the flow

May you live in each moment

xo

Photos by NAE @pomegranatetrail ©2025 

#goodenough

Coming Soon

More soon, but for now...photos.

Morning, driving into work

My favorite thing...putting fabrics together 

Found this long ago purchased weave

Beads and such, found 'em packed up with the above fabrics

I had a plan for all of these things once

Faces Beads

Wooden figures

The moon and the beach rock

Chatting Magnolia Beasts

This is the back...

Time marches on...

Have a good week everyone, Nancy

Photos by NAE @pomegranatetrail ©2014

Happy New Year 2014

Happy New Year 2014!

Main Street New Year's Eve

May your year be full of twinkles and fun!

Leather wear anyone?

I'll post the latest walk/hike soon...

Until then, I'll just keep going...

I've added the non-twinkle photo to compare.
I don't know how I keep animating these photos!

Photos by NAE @pomegranatetrail ©2014

Michelle's Gift

You may remember from this post

for my one year celebration here at pomegranate trail

that Michelle

was the winner of my give-away!

A tease of a photo, announcing the give-away!

Now that she has received her gift in the mail, I can share a bit of it here.

It began with a little box I found, altered and filled with fabric.

Altered box!

It grew to include a weaving I did especially for whoever would be the winner.

The weaving part is complete, it will be a medicine bag.  I love making these and this one ends up being the straightest one I've ever made!  How exciting!  

If you like, you can read more about how I make these woven bags here.

A beautiful AND straight weaving!

Then, I started a little cloth in the week surrounding my give-away announcement.

Remember when you were in school...grade school, and the teacher would present a "story starter"?  There would be a prompt, a beginning...to get you going.  Then you would carry on, in your own way.  Everyone would end up with a different story.  Their own story.

Well, that's the idea I had in my head for this little cloth.  

Just a little something to get one going. 

So, I began the cloth.

I've seen many crafters, artists who do give-aways, giving away something they have made.  While I love that, for me it felt presumptuous of me to assume that what I enjoy making, is something people would want to win.  Does that make sense?  I don't usually sell my work (yet!) and so I don't know if anyone wants it!!!  Haha

My solution was to gift someone with something made, some raw materials and something they could either leave as is or add to it in their own way.  A 'story starter'.  

But, being the thinker that I am...I also felt it may be rude to assume someone would want to collaborate with me on a stitching project.  Forced collaboration, not so good.

So, I carefully stitched in a way that it could be left as is or added to.

I left loose fabrics and empty spaces.

I left room for additional stitches and mosaic weavings.

I left room for the story to continue!

All of these gifts could be kept or passed along in one way or another.

Gifts & Milo

In the photo above of the cloth with Milo, I thought the cloth was 'done' 

and ready to be sent along to Michelle. 

I took it on a little photo shoot in the back yard.  It was a very willing participant posing on the fence, the rosemary & lavender bushes, the apricot tree and my Mama Rose bush.  We had a grand time together :)

Gifts & the solar eclipse

However, as you can see in the photo above...the cloth wanted more!

These two gifts went on a few journeys with me, 

absorbing energy and experiences that would become a part of the 'gift'.

The moon (hiding behind the medicine bag here) was added during the super moon, we traveled to the Museum of Tolerance, the beach, the Skirball and the drum circle.

I placed a few special items in the medicine bag.

I added more stitches and some words on the back.

Words on the back

At last, I felt like I was done with my part.  I gathered all of the elements included in the total give-away 'gift' and some special fabrics I had put aside during my fabric/magazine clean-out!

Ready to go!

I have always known that I find the most joy in creating things for others.  That is why I am left with very little of my own work.  I love the making part and the giving part!

I am so happy, grateful really, to have had the chance to make the gifts you've seen here.

This was both a fun and meaningful expression of who I am.

I hope you enjoy them as well Michelle!

In friendship, Nancy

Photos by NAE @pomegranatetrail ©2012

1 Year Give Away

...Drum roll please...

And the winner is:

Michelle!!! 

Congratulations Michelle!

I will confirm mailing information with you and send the gift along soon.
Thank you to everyone who left a comment here and who comes by to read my blog.


Photos by NAE @pomegranatetrail ©2012

Earth Day

Today on Earth Day, I celebrate the beauty of my roses and

delight in the fact that 4 buds have opened on the Mama Rose, 

while 2 more are on their way.

You can see the little bit of brown on the edges.  We've been having some visiting aphids and have tried a couple different solutions.  I'm just really Really happy they've bloomed at all.  This tells me their roots are happy in this new home.

 This is before they opened.
Look how squished
up it is!

I did not know if they would really open, with all that brownish tinge and all.

But they did!!! Yea!!!
This rose has a fairly strong scent...very pleasant.  :)


I remember them being bigger when this bush was planted at my mom's house.
Mmmmmm...  it really doesn't matter, I'll take what I can get!
I'm just very happy that this little well-loved bush survived the transplant.   Isn't she a beauty? 

I also invite you to visit with my yellow rose bush that we planted last year.  Yellow roses are so happy, aren't they?!!

Each day...in different light...they take on a whole new look.
This is one of the best smelling roses ever.  Looking at the bottom photo, my guy and I said at the same time, "You can almost smell it!"
I wish there was a way to share that with all of you!

This last one is called a

 "rock rose".  It has many tiny flowers and a bush like appearance.  It has the scent of my childhood day camp experience.  I could smell it forever! 
Do you see the heart-shaped petals?  I had never noticed that until I took photos today!

Sunny day celebrating the Mama Rose!

----------CHAPTER TWO----------

I can't help myself...did you ever have one of those days where everything looks so beautiful?  Where you keep noticing new and interesting stuff?
So here are a few more photos:

I saw this beautiful bud tucked under a leaf!

Same bush - lighter color

These 2 photos are from the beautiful peach bush nearest the front door.  Notice how the bud is much darker that the fully opened flower, as if the sun has faded it.

This is a tiny flower that came up from the birdseed dropped by the yellow birds last summer.  Don't those look like little stitches around the center?

I accidentally surprised this guy out of the rose bed.  I don't have too much sympathy for grasshoppers, as we've had years where they have eaten the rock rose down to nubs!  Go on now shoo!!!  Do you remember the bright green one from last year?  You can see it here.  The one today is about 2+ inches.


Again. I wonder about the different shading of the California Poppies...could one side be an older plant?

   

Leaf on neighbor's bush...Ewuuuu!
Wonder why it is like this...
Have a great rest of your Earth Day Sunday!



Photos by NAE @pomegranatetrail ©2012